Ex-Pence Aide Recalls How Trump ‘Failed’ Americans During Disaster Relief Efforts

A former official in Donald Trump’s presidential administration has spoken out towards the Republican’s response to Hurricane Helene and recalled how he equally “politicized catastrophe reduction” whereas within the Oval Workplace.

“As a Homeland Safety Advisor within the Trump White Home, I witnessed firsthand how Donald Trump politicized catastrophe reduction, leaving devastated People ready for assist,” Olivia Troye wrote Monday on X, previously Twitter.

“Leaders throughout the nation & authorities had been calling my workplace, determined for motion as Trump failed them in moments of disaster,” she continued. “As we speak, he’s as soon as once more failing People by distorting the details & spreading lies.”

Troye — who served as an adviser to Trump’s vp, Mike Pence — additionally praised the Joe Biden–Kamala Harris administration for “stepping up within the aftermath of Hurricane Helene with decisive management & a swift, efficient response.”

Trump, the GOP’s 2024 presidential nominee, has lied repeatedly in regards to the federal response to Helene, which devastated components of Georgia, the Carolinas, Florida, Virginia and Tennessee after making landfall as a Class 4 storm Thursday. Greater than 130 persons are lifeless.

Trump claimed that the Biden administration and the governor of North Carolina, Democrat Roy Cooper, are “going out of their solution to not assist folks in Republican areas.” He additional claimed that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) hasn’t been capable of attain Biden to debate reduction. Each Biden and Kemp say that’s not true.

The previous president additionally baselessly accused Harris, his Democratic rival for the White Home, of staging a photograph of a catastrophe briefing with the Federal Emergency Administration Company.

Trump oversaw a number of disasters as president. After Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico in 2017, he infamously tossed paper towels right into a crowd of survivors. His administration additionally withheld billions of dollars in congressionally approved aid from the U.S. territory.

Amid Hurricane Dorian in 2019, Trump turned so fixated on a mistake he made in regards to the storm’s path that he confirmed a climate map doctored with a marker to make it appear as if he had not been improper, creating an pointless distraction as authorities had been making an attempt to warn folks a few harmful hurricane.