The following article by Abby Phillip, Ed O’Keefe, Nick Miroff and Damian Paletta was posted on the Washington Post website September 29, 2017:
Doctors in San Juan are worried that hospitals could run out of power, endangering patients. (Video: Ashleigh Joplin, Whitney Leaming/Photo: Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo/The Washington Post)
At first, the Trump administration seemed to be doing all the right things to respond to the disaster in Puerto Rico.
As Hurricane Maria made landfall on Wednesday, Sept. 20, there was a frenzy of activity publicly and privately. The next day, President Trump called local officials on the island, issued an emergency declaration and pledged that all federal resources would be directed to help. Continue reading “Lost weekend: How Trump’s time at his golf club hurt the response to Maria”