BREITBART | Published November 12, 2024
The New York Times has not yet updated its fact-check of President-elect Donald Trump’s claim the Federal Emergency Management Agency was not helping people in Republican areas, despite FEMA confirming an official was fired for that very reason.
Trump posted on Truth Social on September 30, 2024, following Hurricane Helene:
We are now heading to Valdosta, Georgia, in order to pay my respects and bring lots of relief material, including fuel, equipment, water, and other things, to the State. Many politicians and Law Enforcement will be there. We’ll be saying hello to Franklin Graham, Burt Jones, Tyler Harper, Mike Collins, Austin Scott, Russ Goodman, Sam Watson, and the Mayor of Valdosta Scott James. They are working very hard. I was also going to stop into North Carolina, which has really been hit hard. I have a lot of supplies ready for them, but access and communication is now restricted, and we want to make sure that Local Emergency Management is able to focus on helping the people most affected, and not being concerned with me. I’ll be there shortly, but don’t like the reports that I’m getting about the Federal Government, and the Democrat Governor of the State, going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas. MAGA!
The Times reported on October 4, 2024,
This lacks evidence. While some have criticized the federal response and emergency responders faced obstacles in reaching some areas, there is no evidence that the Biden administration was purposefully ignoring the needs of Republican areas. In fact, Republican governors have praised the Biden administration for its response, and FEMA has designated counties in several states — including dozens won by Mr. Trump in the 2020 presidential election — as eligible to apply for federal assistance.
The Republican governors of Virginia, South Carolina and Tennessee have all thanked the federal government and described the federal response as fast. Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia, also a Republican, said that FEMA had been embedded in the state operations center in Atlanta since before the storm hit and ‘we got a great relationship with them.’
However, the Daily Wire recently reported that a FEMA official named Marn’i Washington, who was in charge of disaster relief crews in Highlands County, Florida, had instructed her disaster relief crew in Placid Lake, Florida, to skip homes “advertising Trump.”
After the report, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell confirmed that Washington did so, and was terminated.
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SOURCE: www.breitbart.com
RELATED: FLASHBACK: Was FEMA Punishing Trump Supporters in North Carolina?
REDSTATE | Published November 12, 2024
On Friday, many of us were shocked to find that FEMA had refused to provide assistance to Trump supporters in Florida. In an exclusive story by the Daily Wire, we learned that a FEMA field manager, Marn’i Washington, had directed her team not to visit residences displaying campaign material supporting President Trump’s bid for a second term.
I suppose what seems so unbelievable about the episode is not that one of the most politicized agencies in the federal government would punish Americans who supported a competing candidate but that a FEMA employee would take time to document an order to her staff to commit a felony. It brings to mind a scene from the epic HBO series, The Wire.
During the response to Hurricane Helene, there were numerous stories of late or nonexistent federal response to heavily Republican areas in western North Carolina.
On September 30, then-candidate Trump noted in a Truth Social post:
I’ll be there shortly, but don’t like the reports that I’m getting about the Federal Government, and the Democrat Governor of the State, going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas.
Despite this driving the “fact checkers” bonkers, the allegation clearly merits revisiting.
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SOURCE: www.redstate.com
