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the US President Donald trump has offered to sell Puerto Rico after a hurricane in 2017. About this newspaper the New York Times said the former acting Minister of internal security of the United States Elaine Duke.

According to her, trump has shown himself not so much as a politician but as a businessman. In particular, he proposed “to sell the island or to get rid of this asset.” However, said the Duke, after listening to the words, this idea never in the White house was not raised.

Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in the fall of 2017.Then, trump has been criticized for the response to a natural disaster that destroyed Puerto Rico and claimed the lives of three thousand people. Then the President of the United States rushed into the crowd rolls of paper towels and jokingly added that Puerto Ricans are “a little spoiled” us budget.

Puerto Rico dependent on the United States territory, is under the control of the States, but is their integral part. Puerto Ricans have dual citizenship in Puerto Rico and the United States, without the right to participate in elections of the President of the United States.