Headline Roundup • September 13th, 2018
Trump Disputes Hurricane Maria Death Toll, Blames Democrats
Summary from the AllSides News Team
President Trump on Thursday disputed that the Hurricane Maria death toll in Puerto Rico reached 3,000, blaming Democrats for exaggerating the number to make him look "as bad as possible". Some have criticized Trump for diverging from the recent study conducted by George Washington University, while others have questioned the veracity of the college's findings, particularly since the evaluation includes some fatalities that occurred six months after the storm.
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Did 4,645 people die in Hurricane Maria? Nope.
Washington Post
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Few academic studies have received as much media coverage as a new report, published by the New England Journal of Medicine, that the death toll in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria was much higher than official estimates of 64.
President Trump’s Four-Pinocchio complaint about the Maria death toll figures
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A more cautious president might not have praised the fact that there were only 16 recorded deaths in the aftermath of a major hurricane.
Fact Check: Trump Is Right About Puerto Rico, Critics Manipulating Hurricane Maria Death ‘Estimates’
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Democrats and the media have been pounding President Donald Trump over the past few days, as Hurricane Florence nears the Carolinas, over his alleged insensitivity to deaths in Puerto Rico last year from Hurricane Maria.
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