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CNN Makes Up Hurricane Maria Death Toll Number, Claims Trump is Lying For Disputing It

The fake news media is working overtime to discredit President Donald J. Trump ahead of Hurricane Florence’s landfall in the Carolinas.

“Nearly 3,000 people died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico,” said a Thursday CNN report. “President Donald Trump denied this reality as a hurricane barrels toward the Carolinas.”

However, at the end of August, CNN struck a different tune in a skeptically written article about the Puerto Rican government upping the death toll.

“Puerto Rico’s true death toll from Hurricane Maria remains elusive as the storm’s one-year anniversary approaches,” said that report from August 29.

After saying for months that only 64 people died in the storm, the Puerto Rican government upped the death toll to 2,975 after a university study made the estimation. […]

Read the full story from Big League Politics


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