Puerto Rico’s Governor Tweets at Trump: ‘I Agree With You’

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Donald Trump took to Twitter Tuesday to attack Puerto Rican politicians as inept and to falsely claim that the island wants to use disaster aid to pay its debt, deploying the type of political invective that’s become routine.

But the response from the Puerto Rico governor was a bigger surprise. He appeared to agree with Trump’s derogatory assessment.