The Latest on President Donald Trump's rejection of the official death count from Hurricane Maria (all times local):10:40 p.m.President Donald Trump is circling back to his claim that the death toll from Hurricane Maria last year was inflated and says the number rose to 3,000 "like magic." Trump tweeted that the number of dead climbed from 16 to 64 "over many months." Trump's latest grumbling on the Maria death toll comes as Tropical Storm Florence inundates the Carolinas, killing at least four people. ———1:25 a.m.President Donald Trump is rejecting the official death count from Hurricane Maria and falsely accusing Democrats of inflating the Puerto Rican toll from the storm last year to make him "look as bad as possible." But Trump, whose efforts to help the island territory recover have been persistently criticized, was having none of that.

Source: ABC News September 15, 2018 02:37 UTC