Trump Lies About Hurricane Relief at Rally in Juneau, WI
His appearance in Dodge County city partially overlapped Packers game.
Official portrait of President Donald J. Trump, Friday, October 6, 2017. Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead. Photo is in the Public Domain.
Former President Donald Trump lied about Hurricane Helene relief efforts during a campaign rally in Juneau Sunday afternoon.
At the rally, which partially overlapped with Sunday’s Green Bay Packers game, Trump claimed that the administration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris has not given residents of affected states enough aid after the storm caused catastrophic damage across the southeastern part of the country.
“As our citizens are suffering from a catastrophic hurricane — I mean, this hurricane has been a bad one — Kamala Harris has left them stranded,” Trump said during the rally.
Trump and other Republicans have been falsely claiming that the White House has not provided enough relief and that money from FEMA has been diverted to be given to immigrants. The Washington Post reported this week that’s not true and that Trump, when he was president, had diverted $155 million from the FEMA disaster relief fund to be used for immigration detention centers and temporary hearing locations for asylum seekers.
Trump has claimed that the federal government is only giving $750 to survivors of the hurricane. One federal program, Serious Needs Assistance, does provide that amount to survivors but it’s only an initial aid meant to help cover the costs of immediate needs such as groceries, baby formula and medical supplies. A number of other programs and relief efforts supported by the federal government are ongoing.
A Saturday statement from the White House outlines the relief efforts, noting there are more than 6,400 federal employees on the ground and $110 million has already been spent supporting the recovery efforts.
“We are sparing no resource as we work to ensure communities across the Southeast have prompt access to Federal resources that will enable them to both purchase essential items and begin their road to recovery and rebuilding,” the statement said. “Unfortunately, as our response and recovery efforts continue, we have seen a large increase in false information circulating online related to the federal response to Hurricane Helene. A number of scam artists, bad-faith actors, and others who want to sow chaos because they think it helps their political interests are promoting disinformation about the recovery effort, including ways to access critical and live-saving resources. This is wrong, dangerous, and it must stop immediately.”
Republican officials in states affected by the hurricane have called for an end to the “political posturing.” U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said the false claims hurt the aid efforts.
“The last thing that the victims of Helene need right now is political posturing, finger-pointing, or conspiracy theories that only hurt the response effort,” Tillis said in a statement.
Trump lies about hurricane relief at Juneau rally was originally published by Wisconsin Examiner.
Agent Orange from MAGAKAOS again goes real low….
Trump lies about more than just hurricane relief! The Big Lie is his claim that he won the 2020 election and, as the Smith Report outlines, Trump “resorted to crimes” in order to subvert the election and our form of government. And it is not just Trump: Eric Hovde was there, as well as Ron Johnson, standing by Trump, his lies, and the attempted destruction of our representative democracy. Hovde, as CEO of Sunwest Bank, should stand against fraud, yet Hovde embraces Donald Trump, who has been convicted of multiple felonies, including 34 counts of falsification of business records. Ron Johnson joins the Trump circus along with JFK, Jr., notorious super-spreaders of disinformation about vaccines. Wisconsin voters need to understand that their vote for Trump validates this circus, and it will not just come to town periodically but set up a permanent presence here.
Why on GODS GREEN EARTH do you present a 7 year old picture of this felon? Show us his felony booking photos.
45 accuses Biden of doing with FEMA funding exactly what 45 did. Projection, Projection, Projection. Makes me wonder about all 45’s accusation of voter fraud during the 2020 election. I wonder if the types of voter fraud 45 accuses the Democrats of doing might be projections of Republican tactics during say the 2000, 2004, and 2016 elections? Unfortunately the media is not interested in pulling back the curtain on republican election shenanigans.
Since almost every word uttered by Frump is either a lie or some level of mis- or disinformation, I think we should just be told when he states something truthful from now on, and ignore him otherwise. He and his campaign of fools would melt into nothingness, like the water-soaked Wicked Witch of the West, if that amount of oxygen was removed from his constant barrage of BS.