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Daniel Dale
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Trump, on Puerto Rico, keeps saying things like, "The Congress of the United States handed them $92 billion." That is not true. $90+ billion is a rough estimate of long-term costs. $42.5 billion has been allocated so far. FEMA has the numbers online. recovery.fema.gov/state-profiles
Trump: "I'm the best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico."
Trump on Puerto Rico: "I have a real understanding of Puerto Rico. I've had jobs in Puerto Rico. I had I think the most successful - I owned the Miss Universe contest, pageants, and we had them in Puerto Rico, twice, and I'll tell you, we had tremendous successes."
Trump continued: "In fact, they said literally 100%, this never happens, I think it was close to 100, but 100% of the island itself was watching. They liked those pageants. I've had a great relationship with Puerto Rico. I'm the best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico."
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Here's a first batch of debate fact checks (more coming). Biden wrong that Obama put protection for DREAMers in actual "law"; Yang exaggerated in attributing mall closures to Amazon alone; Harris actually understated pharma/insurer profits: cnn.com/2019/07/31/pol…
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As with the first Democratic debate last time around, a highly factual debate so far. (I don't check opinion and prediction.) The leading candidates have been almost entirely accurate.
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