10-04-2017, 10:56 PM
samintx wrote:
Do you have a link, Swampy? I find nothing going back to the Mayor of San Juan
No, she doesn't. A few folks (including Krugman) got initially suckered by rumors based on an increased risk for cholera (which is true, when power goes out and sewage treatment is impaired). But he corrected his tweet within a couple hours.
I don't think the mayor of San Juan ever said such a thing.
On the other hand, it was widely reported on right-wing nutjob sites that Puerto Rican truck drivers went on strike after Maria. Politifact rates this whopper as "pants on fire".
Guess who said (no doubt after hearing some of this fake news from his usual sources) "We need their truck drivers, their drivers have to start driving trucks. We have to do that, so at a local level they have to give us more help."?
Give you one guess.