By The Star Staff
Attorney Ivonne Lozada, candidate for the Senate for District 1 of San Juan, Aguas Buenas, and Guaynabo on the Popular Democratic Party (PPD) ticket, criticized New Progressive Party gubernatorial candidate Jennifer Gonzalez for supporting former President Donald Trump.
“It is unusual for gubernatorial candidate, Jennifer González, to endorse Donald Trump so blatantly. The current convict showed during his presidency the hatred and contempt that he feels for Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans,” she said.
The legislative affairs expert also pointed out that after Hurricane Maria, Trump “behaved in a cruel and inhumane manner, even paralyzing aid, which had already been approved, for the recovery of the island. He mocked the thousands of Puerto Ricans who died as a result of the hurricane catastrophe and suggested that the death toll was a lie and a strategy by Democrats to make him look bad.”
Lozada also stated that Trump’s greatest success has been to divide the world with hate speech and intolerance towards the LGBTTQIA+ community, against immigrants, against women’s rights, against Afro-descendant communities, against everything that does not fit within the discourse of so-called white nationalism, which he summarized under the motto “Make America great again.”
“The support of Jennifer González and the New Progressive Party (NPP) for Donald Trump for a new term as president of the United States represents a pathetic act of cowardice and a humiliation of statesmen who know that Trump not only despises them, but Not that he has mockingly told them to their faces that he does not support statehood for Puerto Rico, that we are a nuisance to him and that he would even prefer to sell us to another foreign country,” Lozada added.
“Worse than an embarrassment, Trump is perhaps the worst threat to peace and the protection of human rights that Puerto Rico, the United States and the world could ever have imagined. For Puerto Ricans to support Trump is to poke a finger into the wound of thousands of Puerto Rican families who lost families, jobs and their homes while he mocked human pain. While the world watches, Puerto Rico neither forgives nor forgets,” she concluded.