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Over the weekend, instead of reporting on the Puerto Rico relief efforts and how they were crippled by circumstance, the liberal media chose to champion the anti-Trump criticism from Democratic San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz. After President Trump pushed back against the criticism, the media sensed blood in the water and went all in. On Sunday’s Good Morning America, ABC Correspondent David Wright touted public outrage at the President, including one actor claiming Trump was going to Hell.
Part way through his report highlighting anti-Trump criticism over his Puerto Rico response, Wright raised up the scathing tweet written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, best known for his work on the Broadway musical Hamilton. “And playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda tweeted: ‘She has been working 24/7. You have been golfing. You're going straight to Hell. Fastest golf cart you ever took,’” Wright read with excitement.
Miranda had been a vocal opponent of the President for some time. On one occasion, during a Hamilton performance, he took the time to harangue Vice President Mike Pence because he was in the audience. So the irony went right over Wright’s head when he dismissed Trump’s accusation that Mayor Cruz’s criticism was political:
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