DEMS/HURRICANE/PUERTO RICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democratic mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, slammed President Donald Trump on Thursday, telling Anderson Cooper that the White House’s response to Hurricane Maria will go down in history as Trump’s own Hurricane Katrina, a storm that many say marred George W. Bush’s presidency. ‘This is historic. It’s a historic failing,’ said Carmen Yulin Cruz, speaking on CNN’s ‘Anderson Cooper Full Circle.’ ‘This is President Trump’s Katrina’…The mayor went on to criticize the Trump administration’s response, calling it ‘structured negligence’ that ‘allowed Puerto Ricans to die.’ She also described, in detail, the troubles that have plagued the island territory since the storm began a year ago..Last week, Trump disputed the estimated death toll of 2,975, a number that came from a George Washington University study and reflected similar numbers from CNN’s own reporting.”
-Josiah Ryan, “San Juan mayor: Hurricane Maria is Trump’s Katrina,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, September 20, 2018 8:55 pm