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Unfortunately
these stories are coming from liberal sources like Buzzfeed that
brought you the false RussiaGate story.
They
should never be let off the hook but in this case they are correct
Trump’s own words and tweets speak for themselves
Trump
defaulted on payments for his Puerto Rico golf course, leaving the
territory with a $33 million tax debt
26
September, 2017
On
Monday night, Donald Trump finally broke his
near-deafening silence on the devastating situation in Puerto
Rico with
a series of tweets that tried to switch the narrative away from the
fact that millions of people in the U.S. territory could be without
power for up to six months and instead play up the island’s massive
debt. But one thing the president failed to mention is the part he
played in that mounting financial crisis.
Texas & Florida are doing great but Puerto Rico, which was already suffering from broken infrastructure & massive debt, is in deep trouble..
Long
before Hurricanes Irma or Maria decimated much of Puerto Rico’s
physical structures, the island was already in trouble. Earlier this
year, faced with $123 billion in debt (and growing), the U.S.
territory took the unprecedented step of essentially declaring
bankruptcy.
But according
to PolitiFact Florida,
POTUS (before he was POTUS) only exacerbated the problem.
In
May, Trump made it clear that he had little interest in helping
Puerto Rico’s debt situation:
The Democrats want to shut government if we don't bail out Puerto Rico and give billions to their insurance companies for OCare failure. NO!
That
tweet sparked the interest of the Florida Democratic Party, which
issued a statement that
very same:
“Puerto Ricans are tax-paying, American citizens, though it isn’t surprising that Donald Trump clearly doesn’t know those non-alternative facts. Trump is simply lying: the negotiations being discussed are not a ‘bailout,’ but would help provide desperately needed access to healthcare for seniors and children on the island. Instead of using Puerto Rican families as scapegoats and bargaining chips for the disastrous Republican budget process that will likely lead to a government shutdown, he should pay back the nearly $33 million he owes Puerto Rican taxpayers after yet another one of his businesses defaulted on the island.”
That
failed business venture they were referring to was the Trump
International Golf Club Puerto Rico, which, according
to Fortune,
borrowed $26.4 million in government-backed bonds in order to pay for
improvements, but later defaulted on a $119,814 to bondholders. In
2015, the club filed
for bankruptcy,
which is when Trump (who licensed his name to the property)
desperately tried to distance himself from the place bearing his
unbearable name.
“We
have zero financial investment in this course,” Eric Trump (the
vampire-looking one) told Bloomberg
News in July 2015. “This has absolutely nothing to do with Trump.
This is a separate owner. We purely manage the golf course.”
Except
that Trump, according
to BuzzFeed News,
did pocket the hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees from the
resort, and when the club defaulted on those bonds and declared
bankruptcy, left Puerto Rico’s taxpayers with a hefty $32.7 million
bill to pay in order to clean up the soon-to-be-president’s mess.
So
the next time you hear #45 swearing that he’s going to make America
great again, ask him if his version of America includes Puerto Rico,
too.
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