Mick Mulvaney disses Puerto Rico in defense of Trump
The White House is insulting Puerto Rico again.
Seeking to defend President Donald Trump against impeachment claims that he held up aid to Ukraine to get dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden, Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney criticized Puerto Rico.
The White House aide said the president's primary goal to safeguard American taxpayers from throwing millions of taxpayer dollars into a graft-ridden country.
"This is a corrupt place. Everybody knows it's a corrupt place," Mulvaney said of Ukraine. "By the way, put this in context. This is on the heels of what happened in Puerto Rico, when we took a lot of heat for not wanting to give a bunch of aid to Puerto Rico because we thought that place was corrupt and by the way turns out we were right. Put that as your context."
Trump has regularly derided Puerto Rico since it was devastated by Hurricane Maria in 2017.
The president has suggested that the federal government has given far too much aid to the island's government, which he accuses of being deeply corrupt.
_New York Daily News
