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The FBI on Wednesday arrested two former senior officials who served in administration of Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló, leading the chair of the House committee that oversees Puerto Rico to call for the governor to step down.

The arrests also spurred concerns on Capitol Hill about the billions of dollars in aid that Congress has approved for the island.

The federal indictment says the former officials illegally directed federal funding to politically-connected contractors. The arrests come about a month after Congress approved a controversial disaster aid bill that earmarked additional funding for Puerto Rico’s recovery from Hurricane Maria in 2017, which were tied up in part because President Trump called Puerto Rico’s officials “incompetent or corrupt.”

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“Keleher and Avila-Marrero exploited their government positions and fraudulently awarded contracts funded with federal monies,” U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez-Vélez said in a statement. “The charged offenses are reprehensible, more so in light of Puerto Rico’s fiscal crisis.”

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https://outline.com/kcXe3w

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"Trump's racism is costing lives," tweeted MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski on Saturday. "Trump's Puerto Rico potshots make his racism morally impossible to ignore," read the headline at Philly.com. Same for John Oliver, who called Trump's response to the hurricane "horribly racist."

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https://reason.com/2017/10/03/is-trumps-...e-of-puerto-ric

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CONCORD, N.H. — Joe Biden ripped the Trump administration’s response to Hurricane Maria at a campaign stop here on Tuesday night, saying he suspected that officials botched the response because they didn’t realize people in Puerto Rico are U.S. citizens.

“It’s shameful, the way we treated Puerto Rico and the islands,” Biden said to an audience of several hundred people gathered in a union hall. “I’m not even sure people in the president’s administration knew Puerto Ricans are all citizens.”

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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/0...to-rico-1353540

These quotes represent only a small selection from a plethora of comments accusing President Trump of either racism or lying when it came to concerns about the corruption present in Puerto Rico. Do you think any of his critics will now update the record or apologize to the President? Yeah, me neither.