Denies Hurricane Maria death toll, claims Democrats fabricated 3,000 deaths

In morning tweets, Trump rejected the official estimate of roughly 3,000 deaths from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, alleging without evidence that Democrats invented the toll "to make me look as bad as possible." He dismissed the George Washington University study that counted excess deaths and minimized the administration’s failed response.

“This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico.” — Twitter, September 13, 2018 Quote verified against source