No one suggests that Trump was primarily responsible for the deaths in Puerto Rico. Clearly, a lot of factors — including the inadequacy of local infrastructure, the sheer difficulty of providing help to an island, and the mistakes of local government — contributed to the ghastly death toll. But the federal government and its leader bear their share of culpability. As The Washington Post reported on Sept. 29, 2017, the president was initially attentive when Hurricane Maria made landfall on Wednesday, Sept. 20, but not for long: “For four days after that — as storm-ravaged Puerto Rico struggled for food and water amid the darkness of power outages — Trump and his top aides effectively went dark themselves.” Trump, the story noted, spent a “long weekend” at his golf club and attended a political rally in Alabama.