The governor of Puerto Rico on Thursday effusively praised President Donald Trump’s response to the hurricane that ravaged his island last month.
Gov. Ricardo Rosselló met with Trump at the White House and told reporters that the federal government had delivered everything he has asked for in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
“The facts are that every petition that we’ve made to the president of the United States until this moment, it has been answered. It has been answered,” he said. “The reality is that we still need to do more for the people of Puerto Rico, and that’s why we’re meeting. This is not over, not over by a long shot.”
Rosselló’s assessment stands in stark contrast to the strident criticism leveled by San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, who has emerged as a media darling for her consistent broadsides against the Trump administration. – READ MORE
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