White House spokesman Hogan Gidley twice referred to Puerto Rico as “that country” during a television appearance Tuesday in which he defended a series of tweets by President Trump lashing out at leaders of the U.S. territory.
The town of Yabucoa in Puerto Rico is shown after Hurricane Maria hit in September 2017.
As he pressed to defend Trump’s contentions, Gidley sought to make the case that the leaders of the territory, whose residents are U.S. citizens, had mishandled the aid they’d received thus far.
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