PUERTO RICO: [Reporter: “Mr. President, this — this huge aid package to Puerto Rico: Why not a year ago? Why not two years ago? Why not three years ago? Why 46 days to the election?”]
“Because what we’re doing is we’ve been working on it for a long time to get it passed. Very tough to get things past Democrats, where they don’t want to see this happen. And they probably, certainly, didn’t want to see it happen at this point…
[Reporter: “It may be simply coincidental, but it does coincide with a big push for Puerto Rican voters that the Biden-Harris campaign —”]
“Yeah, I think that that’s probably — well, they can’t do anything. Look, the Biden-Harris campaign, what they did — they hurt — you know, I’ve gone through it. And whether it was President Obama or Vice President Biden, they were a disaster for Puerto Rico. A disaster.
And what we’re doing and what we’ve done — but what we’re doing is something that will be fantastic for many years in the future. Bringing back the former pharma- — pharmaceutical industry and manufacturing in Puerto Rico is what they’ve wanted for years, and we’re doing that, in addition to the $13 billion.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | September 18, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 18, 2020