CNN’s Acosta: Trump Sending Message to San Juan Mayor with Latest Puerto Rico Tweets

‘ — who has been seen here at the White House as a thorn in the side of the president in the last couple of days’

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ACOSTA: "Wolf, I talked to Republican sources in touch with people here at the White House who said that essentially that tweet was posted by the president earlier this morning to go after the San Juan mayor Carmen Cruz who has been seen here at the White House as a thorn in the side of the president in the last couple of days, the procession is that she is back in the headlines and that tweet sent out this morning basically to respond to her to say, listen, this aid to your island is not going to be going on forever. That struck a lot of people as being very incentive to people in Puerto Rico. I talked to Republican sources on relief efforts there and I asked this source, wolf, whether or not the feeling is that the president just doesn’t like the people of Puerto Rico, has some sort of bias against the people of Puerto Rico and this source said it’s more serious than that. It really reflects in the opinion of this source that the president doesn’t understand what his administration is doing because in the feelings of this source, the administration is hard at work trying to get things going again in Puerto Rico. Wolf, when you go back to the tweets this morning and even the president when he made that visit down in Puerto Rico, you remember that video of him throwing the paper towels to the people in Puerto Rico. I talked to another Republican source who advises this white House on a routine basis who said the optics of that were just terrible and that the white House has to do something to get this image problem turned around."

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