'Casualties don’t make a person look bad': Paul Ryan declines to condemn Trump tweets but disagrees on accuracy of Puerto Rico death toll

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September 13, 2018 8:23 PM

House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday had "no reason to dispute" a government-funded study that concluded nearly 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria, a widely-accepted finding President Donald Trump rejected in tweets earlier in the day.

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"Casualties don’t make a person look bad," Ryan told reporters. "This was a horrible storm."

House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday said he had "government-funded study that concluded nearly 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria, a finding President Donald Trump rejected in tweets earlier in the day.

Ryan did not condemn Trump's controversial claims, including a conspiratorial assertion that Democrats inflated the death toll to make "

Others were far more critical of Trump and his claim"3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico" — particularly San Juan Mayor

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