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BumRushDaShow

(141,435 posts)
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 04:34 PM Oct 3

Trump Didn't Want to Help California Fire Victims Until Aides Convinced Him 'These Are People Who Voted For You,'

Source: MEDIAite

Oct 3rd, 2024, 3:06 pm


Two former Trump White House officials claimed that the former president was hesitant to give disaster aid relief to areas that voted Democrat and gave special treatment to pro-Trump states, according to a report. Recently, Donald Trump has slammed the Biden administration for its handling of Hurricane Helene while baselessly accusing Democratic leaders of ignoring the needs of storm victims from areas that tend to vote Republican.

However, a report by Politico’s E&E News indicates that the GOP nominee was partisan at times during his response to disasters and allegedly hesitated giving aid to areas he considered political hostile towards his candidacy on at least three occasions. Trump’s former senior director for resilience policy, Mark Harvey, told the outlet that Trump refused to provide disaster aid back in 2018 to California following the deadly wildfires. Harvey claims Trump was reluctant because of the state’s Democratic leanings.

Harvey claims that Trump changed his mind after he showed the former president the Republican voting habits of residents of Orange County, California, which had been heavily damaged by the fire. “We went as far as looking up how many votes he got in those impacted areas … to show him these are people who voted for you,” Harvey claimed.

Harvey added, “There’s no empathy for the survivors. It is all about getting your photo-op, right? Disaster theater to make him look good.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-didnt-want-to-help-california-fire-victims-until-aides-convinced-him-these-are-people-who-voted-for-you-per-report/



Full headline: Trump Didn’t Want to Help California Fire Victims Until Aides Convinced Him ‘These Are People Who Voted For You,’ Per Report
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Trump Didn't Want to Help California Fire Victims Until Aides Convinced Him 'These Are People Who Voted For You,' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Oct 3 OP
So he only relented when shown they *did* vote for him intrepidity Oct 3 #1
Par for the Course Speaks2 Oct 3 #2
Mr. 'genius' sez rake the forest. louis-t Oct 3 #3
Most of rural California votes Republican pfitz59 Oct 3 #4
tRump also wanted to withhold masks/PPE during the pandemic from Blue states. love_katz Oct 3 #5

Speaks2

(77 posts)
2. Par for the Course
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 05:39 PM
Oct 3

We remember DeSantis providing waivers & assistance with early voting to R leaning counties, but not D ones, following distasters in years past. We even see how D leaning constituencies waited longer for special elections to be held than R leaning ones in FL.

Nothing new for Rs (there is no bottom).

pfitz59

(10,849 posts)
4. Most of rural California votes Republican
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 06:11 PM
Oct 3

in a big way. Thus, most of the fire-prone areas are his kinda folk. Further proves what an idiot he is. Wants to be president but is a failure in geography.

love_katz

(2,774 posts)
5. tRump also wanted to withhold masks/PPE during the pandemic from Blue states.
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 07:09 PM
Oct 3

Withholding aid , whether masks/ppe or funds or assistance to states that didn't specifically ki$$ his rump was something that he actually threatened to do.

He was quoted as saying that Democratic governors would need to ask him " real nice " , in order to receive any aid.

Thuggish wannabe dictator/mobster.

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