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President Donald Trump continued his attacks Tuesday morning on Puerto Rican leaders over hurricane aid and blasted a top House Democrat over what he described as hypocrisy over special Justice Department investigations.

Trump fired off a number of tweets Monday night blasting Senate Democrats for shooting down a disaster relief bill over their concerns it provided too little for the hurricane-torn U.S. commonwealth. In one of those evening tweets, the president made the claim — yet another without support — that Puerto Rico was set before that measure was even crafted “to receive more hurricane relief funding than any ‘place’ in history.”

He was back at it Tuesday morning, but set his sights mostly on Puerto Rican officials, with whom he has feuded since early in his term after two massive storms ravaged the island.
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Rep. Don Beyer, D-Virginia, fired back with his own tweet charging the president with “lying about Puerto Rico, which hasn’t gotten anywhere near $91 billion.”

Beyer said Trump “cruelly ignored and even held back disaster assistance to Americans in Puerto Rico as thousands died,” adding: “Now he admits he ignored Americans’ suffering because of his own ego. Just monstrous.”

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