Embattled FEMA Administrator Brock Long made a side remark on the Sunday talkies that kinda outshone the main conversation, the Hill reports. Suggesting that the reported 3,000 extra Puerto Rico… Politics News Summaries.
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Embattled FEMA Administrator Brock Long made a side remark on the Sunday talkies that kinda outshone the main conversation, the Hill reports. Suggesting that the reported 3,000 extra Puerto Rico deaths —a number President Trump is heavily disputing —may have been byproducts of Hurricane Maria beyond anyone’s control, he said on NBC’s Meet the Press: „There’s all kinds of studies on this that we take a look at. Spousal abuse goes through the roof. You can’t blame spousal abuse after a disaster on anybody.“ Asked about byproduct deaths, Long says they may happen „because people have heart attacks due to stress, they fall off their house trying to fix their roof,“ or die driving through „intersections where the stop lights aren’t working.“ For more around the Sunday dial, including Brett Kavanaugh, Paul Manafort, and Democratic Socialists:
