President Trump once asked the assistants if he could sell Puerto Rico and buy Greenland instead, according to former Homeland Security Department official Miles Taylor, who told MSNBC on Wednesday that he heard the comments directly in August 2018, then. t officials regularly went to Puerto Rico to coordinate hurricane recovery efforts.
“Once before we left, he told us, not only did he want to buy Greenland, he actually said he wanted to see if we could sell Puerto Rico, we could replace Puerto Rico for Greenland, because, in his words, Puerto Rico was dirty. and the people were poor, ”Taylor said, adding that he found the suggestion“ above gall. ”
The comments confirm a 2019 New York Times report on Trump’s foreign suggestion. Taylor said he did not take the suggestion as a joke because Trump often expresses “deep animosity” against Puerto Rico. Since leaving DHS, Taylor has become a vocal Trump critic. He supported Joe Biden on Monday and appeared in a Republican Voters Against Trump video. White House spokesman Judd Deere called him “another creature of the DC Swamp” on Wednesday.
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