Fact check: Amid bipartisan praise for Biden hurricane response, Trump falsely claims reviews are 'universally' negative

[TomCADem]

It is a good thing for Trump that most people do not get their news from traditional media and for those who do, many listen to right outlets, thus he can get away with gas lighting tens of millions of voters. For those voters in the social media/right wing bubble, it does not matter that what he is saying is demonstrably false.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/03/politics/fact-check-trump-biden-hurricane-response/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc

Former President Donald Trump, seeking to capitalize politically on the devastation from Hurricane Helene, falsely claimed in a social media post on Thursday that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris “are universally being given POOR GRADES for the way that they are handling the Hurricane, especially in North Carolina.”

Facts First: Trump is wrong. The Biden administration’s response to the hurricane has received bipartisan praise from political leaders in affected states.

That praise has not been universal; there has also been some criticism and some ambivalence. But Trump’s assertion that reviews for the Biden administration’s handling of the crisis have been entirely negative is not true.

And this is just the latest Trump false claim on the subject of the administration’s hurricane response.

On Monday, Trump incorrectly said that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp hadn’t been able to get Biden on the phone, though Kemp had said the same day that he had already spoken to Biden. And Trump baselessly claimed Monday that the federal government and the Democratic governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, were deliberately not helping residents of Republican communities in the state; Trump provided no evidence for the claim when a reporter pressed him about it.

[Phoenix61]

1. Those communities are going to find out how hard FEMA is to deal with.

Those cities that need FEMA funds to rebuild are about to find out it’s a reimbursement program. They are going to have to find the funds elsewhere, rebuild, then send the receipts to FEMA. This is one of the many reasons it takes so long to recover. The real kicker is if you don’t do everything exactly according to FEMA they won’t pay. The appeals process is brutal and most of the time pointless. Deanna Criswell is incredibly well qualified for the job but the reimbursement program has got to be changed.