Puerto Rico
“In his words, Puerto Rico was dirty and the people were poor.” A former top Department of Homeland Security staffer said President Donald Trump asked if the U.S. could swap the island for Greenland.
“In his words, Puerto Rico was dirty and the people were poor,” Miles Taylor, who worked at the Department of Homeland Security, said of the president.
Hundreds of frustrated voters were turned away from centers across Puerto Rico that never received ballots.
The storm grew into a Category 1 hurricane early Friday as the Bahamian government urged citizens to prepare for the worst.
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The chef, who sells a line of Puerto Rican pantry foods, sounds off on Goya's recent support of President Trump.
Elaine Duke, the former acting head of homeland security, claimed to the New York Times that President Donald Trump looked to “divest” Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria struck the island.
Trump viewed the island devastated by Hurricane Maria as a "businessman" weighing the value of an asset, Elaine Duke said.
Billions of dollars in contracts have been awarded to politically connected Americans, even as Puerto Ricans suffer electricity outages.
The company has an expired loan to “vulture” financiers and a pattern of laying off workers over the last two years.
Health experts warn that the U.S. territory is relying on faulty statistics and has not yet seen its peak of cases.