Olivia Troye: disaster relief came to a halt because Trump would leave it sitting on his desk

[Dennis Donovan]

Greg Sargent
"...the whole disaster relief declaration process would come to a halt because the disaster declaration that needed to be signed by the president was sitting on Trump’s desk"

-Olivia Troye, former top national security official, on our pod

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Last edited 9:22 AM · Oct 4, 2024

He was busy looking at county voting records to see which ones he won before signing the disaster relief. Piece of shit! 💩

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[BeyondGeography]

1. Which is also why infrastructure never got done

Build Roy Cooper a bridge? To hell with that!

Troye makes a great point and this relates to other things. Team Harris needs to highlight it.m right now on the stump. Trump sees red when it comes to blue.

[oasis]

2. That's Trump alright! Fits him perfectly.

[malaise]

3. From the link

Donald Trump keeps pushing the vile claim that federal officials are withholding disaster aid from GOP areas devastated by Hurricane Helene. This has now backfired, focusing media attention on Trump’s own hyper-politicization of disaster relief as president. To wit: Two former Trump officials told Politico that Trump initially refused to approve disaster aid for California after wildfires in 2018 due to the state’s Democratic lean. We talked to one of those officials—Olivia Troye, a senior homeland security official in the Trump administration and now a leading critic of the former president—about Trump’s disastrous tenure, and what she told is is not pretty.

[UpInArms]

5. The transcript is light your hair on fire stuff

https://newrepublic.com/article/186767/transcript-trump-initially-denied-disaster-aid-calif-goper-says

By the way, by that point, I’m fully aware that they’re purging the NSC. I’m fully aware the Schedule F order starts to surface around that time. I see the draft of it. I’m told to keep my head down. This is all of what’s happening in 2020. The guard that was coming in, and the loyalists that were being placed in certain roles, John McEntee started to play a bigger role, and the personnel he took over (he was now screening people), that is what a Trump presidency will look like. It will be those people if he gets back to office.

Sargent: Yes. This is all about what a second presidential term for Trump would look like. I want to clarify for people that Olivia Troye has become a very prominent Trump critic since those 2020 days and is out there a fair amount on this stuff. In fact, you’ve just cut an ad for the Kamala Harris campaign on immigration. As a result of your criticism, you’ve become MAGA public enemy number one or number 500, maybe, I’m not sure where on the list you are, but you’re pretty high up, right?

Troye: It has definitely made me a target. I think I’m on the deep state target list and I certainly know that I’m on their retribution list for sure.

Sargent: Olivia, what we’re talking about here again is what a second Trump term looks like. We’re talking Christina Bobb overseeing disaster relief, Kash Patel being in charge of the criminal justice or some element of the criminal justice bureaucracy after having openly and repeatedly said that what a Trump second term should do is prosecute the hell out of political opponents. This is what we’re looking at in the second term. Everything politicized all the way down and huge purges of the government, restocking with more MAGA loyalists. What are you anticipating? What does that look like, do you think?

[malaise]

6. Indeed they do

There are no words for this monster

[Kid Berwyn]

4. Explains his gross criminal negligence in a lot of areas.

From disasters to plague, making them worse for “Democrats” is what the record shows Donald J Trump did (“Democrats” defined as those who believe in equality or are members of “Minority Groups”).