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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 15:35:18 -0000 (UTC)
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2024 Elections
Trump turns Hurricane Helene aftermath political
Speaking in Georgia, Trump laced into Harris, Biden and Walz, even as he
acknowledged it wasnt the time or place.
Trump jabs at Biden and Harris over Hurricane Helene response
By Natalie Allison and Megan Messerly
09/30/2024 05:50 PM EDT
As Kamala Harris traveled back to Washington to be briefed on the
Hurricane Helene aftermath, Donald Trump on Monday descended on a swing-
state community ravaged by the storm and couldnt resist his impulse to
make the trip political.
Standing before piles of bricks blown off a furniture store in Valdosta,
Georgia, Trump repeated his false claim that President Joe Biden wouldnt
get on the phone with the states Republican governor despite Gov.
Brian Kemp saying he had spoken to the president a day earlier and
appreciated the federal help his state has received.
And addressing reporters who assembled in Georgia ahead of his Monday
afternoon stop, Trump predicted that Biden was sleeping, criticized
Harris for having been out somewhere campaigning, looking for money a
day earlier when Trump himself was rallying in Pennsylvania and
referred to her running mate as Tampon Tim.
Even Trump seemed to acknowledge at least when reading from prewritten
remarks that it wasnt the time or place.
As you know, our country is in the final weeks of a hard-fought national
election. At a time like this when a crisis hits, when our fellow
citizens cry out in need, none of that matters, Trump said as he read
from sheets of notes. Were not talking about politics now. We have to
all get together and get this solved.
But he refused to stick to that statesmans tone on Monday. And for all
the political benefits Trump has seemed to reap for being the first to
show up at disaster sites such as his visit to East Palestine, Ohio,
early last year, when Biden had failed to go his penchant for using any
opportunity to smear his rivals was also on full display. Indirectly, so,
too, in the aftermath of a hurricane affecting the swing states of North
Carolina and Georgia, was the more measured persona Harris is seeking to
project in a neck-and-neck race.
As Trump spoke in Georgia and criticized her absence in the disaster
zone, Harris was on her way back to the East Coast following a three-day
swing out West. She canceled several informal campaign events in Las
Vegas on Monday to return to Washington early to attend a meeting with
federal emergency management officials Monday evening.
We will do everything in our power to help communities recover, she
said at FEMAs headquarters.
While she received a briefing on Sunday from FEMA Administrator Deanne
Criswell, she wont visit the areas impacted by Helene until she is told
doing so wont impact emergency response operations, said a White House
official granted anonymity to speak freely about the vice presidents
plans. On Monday, she promised to be on the ground as soon as possible.
Biden said he would visit North Carolina on Wednesday.
Asked whether he thought it was disruptive to have Trump in Georgia on
Monday, he said that he had no idea. But he also said that traveling to
the disaster site too soon would have been a distraction.
We are giving them everything we have, he told reporters. Were
working hard.
Though Trump suggested Sunday night that Harris ought to be down in the
area where the storm hit, two former FEMA directors in interviews
Monday said it was better to wait to visit North Carolina.
'It's called a telephone': Biden defends Hurricane Helene response
The president wants to get in there as soon as they can, said Craig
Fugate, former FEMA administrator under Barack Obama. We were, in many
cases, having to make that judgment call: Yeah, were at a point where
its stable enough that them coming in is not going to be a disruption.
People showing up during disasters, it ought to be about the people
were helping and the survivors, not about them. I see a lot of disaster
tourism, its both sides of the aisle, its private sector and other
celebrity types, he added. You should always put this in context, is
the visit contributing to the survivors recovery, or is it about you?
Trump, who said he was also going to stop into North Carolina as he
planned the Georgia visit, acknowledged that emergency services there
were already strained helping victims of the historic flooding. In a
Truth Social post earlier Monday amid a flurry of posts criticizing
Harris for a STAGED photo of her receiving a FEMA briefing, and bashing
the Witch Hunt against him by New York Attorney General Letitia James
Trump again tried to stoke partisan flames by falsely claiming the Biden
administration and North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper were going
out of their way not to help people in Republican areas.
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Flanked by Franklin Graham, the son of the Rev. Billy Graham and
president of the Christian aid group Samaritans Purse, Trump on Monday
touted the supplies he had brought to Valdosta, including water, gas and
other materials.
I brought a lot with us, many, many wagons of resources, Trump said as
he shook hands with a small crowd gathered outside the remains of Chez
What Furniture Store. Just about everything you can think of, and
Franklin Graham is here and hes helping us to distribute everything.
It was unclear whether the products were all provided by Samaritans
Purse, or if Trump or his campaign purchased any. Spokespeople for both
the Trump campaign and Grahams organization did not immediately respond
to requests for comment. Other elected officials, including the mayor of
Valdosta, stood with Trump during his appearance there.
Trumps visit to Valdosta was far from his usual rally-style campaign
stops. He spoke in front of what appeared to be a small crowd of
supporters and reporters, though there were obvious signs that the Secret
Service had already spent time at the site before his arrival: Some of
the fallen bricks had been arranged in a small, knee-high wall in front
of him, similar to the small, black-curtain-draped walls Secret Service
have put up in front of him at other recent events following the July
shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Still, David Paulison, who ran FEMA under former President George W.
Bush, questioned the utility of Trump traveling to Georgia.
President Trump coming, Im not sure how that helps because he has no
power right now. But if people are very supportive of him, then maybe
its good for him to be there also and talk to people that support him,
he said. Thats not bad. But it does eat up resources on the ground.
Youve got to be judicious with it.