First, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz was complimentary to the Trump administration for its efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
Then, just two days later, she unloaded a truckload of opprobrium – maybe because she was read the riot act by fellow Democrats about giving Trump & Co. credit for what it was doing.
Then Trump came to the Island, and she was friendly and accommodating to him. And during a meeting with key political figures, including Cruz, when Trump opened the floor for discussion she had nothing to say – which suggests she had no remedial suggestions for how Trump was handling the Puerto Rico crisis.
Then Trump left. And her snide, angry attacks immediately recommenced.
It is hard not to conclude that Carmin Yulin Cruz is a political fraud and coward, who will say what she’s told when she’d told to say it, but doesn’t have the guts to do it face to face.
President Trump’s Press Secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, discussed Cruz at today’s briefing, and got things just about perfectly right:
“I think that it is sad that the Mayor of San Juan chose to make that a political statement instead of a time of focusing on the relief efforts. The president invited her to be part of that conversation. He specifically asked in the meeting where many were present, including a couple dozen other mayors who were very happy with the recovery effort, the governor, the congresswoman – he opened the floor up for discussion and she actually made zero comments.
“To me, that would have been the time and the place that she should have weighed in and asked for what she needed and laid out what she was asking for, for San Juan. She didn’t.
“Instead, she chose to wait until the president left, and then criticized him on TV. Which I think is the wrong thing for her to do for her constituents, and I hope the next time she is given the opportunity to help her constituents, she’ll take it”.
To Ms. Huckabee: I agree with almost everything you said. But if you are suggesting that Mayor Cruz should start acting like a responsible public official instead of a ridiculous political yo-yo who seems far more interested in pleasing her Democrat masters than helping her people….
….don’t count on it happening any time soon.
