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I am not a Trump supporter, I am just asking for proof that responsibility (for this mess) ultimately flows up to him. The same statements were made by Obama

• mikeash 9y ago
  The proof is: Trump is in charge of the government that is handling relief. Responsibility is his by definition. In the past, we understood and celebrated the fact that the man at the top was the final word on this sort of thing: https://www.trumanlibrary.org/buckstop.htm https://www.trumanlibrary.org/buckstop.htm Puerto Rico is a bit different because there's no sovereign state government with local responsibility. In a state, the Feds can help out, but the state government is a separate entity with jurisdiction and responsibility for most of what's going on. In a territory, the federal government is all there is. There is a territorial government, but that is just a part of the federal government. But it's not very different. If people blamed Obama for FEMA's failures while he was in office, that would be completely justified. The main difference I'm harping on here is that Trump and his defenders insist on deflecting the blame and saying "it's not my fault." When Obama responded to a natural disaster, did he ever say he was doing a great job and all the problems were due to corrupt local officials and crippling debt? I don't recall that ever coming from him, or from any other President from either party.