(Full title: 'Disqualifying': Outrage mounts as ex-Trump
official reveals alarming wildfire response)
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Who's surprised? Fucking savage...
Your professed *blind eye* to everything I say doesn't
translate to my points being as invisible and invalid as
you wish they were, OT my friend...lol...
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Many political observers were shocked Thursday by news
that former President Donald Trump balked at helping
California wildfire victims until he learned Republican
voters were among them.
President Joe Biden and California Gov. Gavin Newsom were
just a few readers to express outrage after two former
White House officials revealed they had to show the then-
president voting data to get him to release disaster
funding in 2018.
"You can’t only help those in need if they voted for
you," Biden wrote on X. "It’s the most basic part of
being president, and this guy knows nothing about it."
Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris this week have
been barraged by attacks on the right over the federal
response to the deadly Hurricane Helene, which recent
reports show has claimed at least 200 lives.
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But when Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) tried Thursday to slam
that response as "slow" and "overly-bureaucratic," one X
user replied with E&E News reporter Scott Waldman's exact
words:
"Two former Trump White House officials told me they had
to show voter data to Trump to get him to release
disaster funding to CA wildfire victims," Waldman wrote.
"He released it after learning that he had as many GOP
supporters in Orange Co. as he did in Iowa. "
Newsom, a Democrat, argued the reporting foretold trouble
for his state — any any other blue state hit by natural
disasters — should Trump be reelected in November.
"A glimpse into the future if we elect [Trump]," he
wrote. "Trump was willing to hold back aid after
devastating wildfires in California until he saw proof
that people liked him. He doesn’t care about America. He
only cares about himself."
Mike Nellis, the former adviser to Vice President Kamala
Harris targeted by Republicans for his connection to
Trump's hush money judge, slammed the conservative party
for their attacks on Hurricane Helene response efforts.
"Of course, it turns out it was actually Trump who
withheld federal aid from the victims of the 2018
California wildfires because they lived in a blue state,"
Nellis wrote.
"This kind of behavior should be immediately
disqualifying, but we’re so far down the rabbit hole that
it’ll barely register. I guarantee you, if a Democrat did
something like that, they’d be tarred and feathered—and
rightly so."
Attorney Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a fellow at the American
Immigration Council, emphasized the fact that Mark
Harvey, Trump's senior director for resiliency policy,
was willing to put his name to the report.
"Wow," the attorney wrote. "On the record source, not
anonymous, from a former official who directly interacted
with Trump on this specific issue."
Heather Reid, a managing director at the advocacy group
Climate Power, detailed what Trump's reported delay put
at stake.
"Trump KNEW that people's homes, livelihoods, and whole
lives had been destroyed by wildfires," Reid wrote, "and
yet he couldn't be bothered to release disaster aid until
his staff convinced him that *Republican voters* needed
help, too."
Dan Pfeiffer, co-host of the liberal podcast Pod Save
America, said Trump should have faced legal consequences
for his actions.
"I know everyone has become numb to Trump’s conduct," he
wrote, "but this is exactly the sort of abuse of power
that the impeachment clause was created for."
His co-host Jon Favreau looked toward the none-too-
distant future, namely a Harris campaign event in
Wisconsin Thursday afternoon that will feature former
Republican Rep. Liz Cheney.
"Trump relied on voter data to decide which disaster
victims to help," Favreau wrote. "Not a bad thing for
Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney to hit today as they talk
about putting country over party."
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And there are those who actually don't realize others don't
think that way...they imagine how they, themselves, and DJT
"think" is normal, acceptable, American patriotic God-
fearing behavior...
Again...counting every blessing including how many more
there are, of those who count humanitarian values amongst
their own...
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