Ana Navarro: Trump’s Treating Puerto Ricans as ‘Second-Class Citizens’ Because ‘They Do Not Vote in a Presidential Election’

‘They are just as American as you and me, as people in New York and Texas and Florida’

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BALDWIN: "The fact that he threw out this number, he says Puerto Rico has received more than $90 billion in aid. And we were doing all the fact checking, just so we're all on the same page. 'The Washington Post' fact checkers found Congress has approved so far only $1.5 billion so no one can totally figure out where he got the $90 billion."
NAVARRO: "No one can ever figure out where he gets his numbers. But, listen, more than that, from the moment Hurricane Maria happened — and remember, it was a very active hurricane season, Texas had a hurricane, Florida had a hurricane, and I can tell you as a Floridian that the difference in treatment between Florida and Puerto Rico was night and day. Whereas Florida and Texas got immediate and a lot of aid, Puerto Rico, which needed it more and we knew it needed it more because the infrastructure was in worse shape and because it’s an island, and it did not get the same level of aid at the same speed that Florida and Texas did. From day one, Donald Trump has been treating Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans as second-class citizens and that is unacceptable."

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