In his mind — or in his tweets, at least — the death toll remains in the double digits. They also took into consideration the population change caused by people moving away from the island for good in the months after Hurricane Maria. There have been quite a few numbers that have appeared in reports about the death toll in Puerto Rico. So the government froze the death toll at 64 and asked George Washington University’s Milken Institute to examine the data. Trump’s refusal to accept that the Puerto Rican death toll from Hurricane Maria is (a) potentially in the thousands and (b) not politically motivated could cost him.

Source: Washington Post September 15, 2018 22:30 UTC