Not the weather for a Air Force One flight to Europe….
Concerns for the People in Florida and elsewhere from Helene and incoming Milton has the President deciding to0 stay home to ‘supervise’ the Federal response to Florida and the South to the hurricane’s….
Trump beat Biden and Harris responding to the situation from Helene and that won’t happen again….
Trump IS trying to beat Biden & Co. on the recovery action’s with misinformation and downright lies….
Politics….
President Joe Biden postponed his scheduled trip this week to Germany and Angola, opting to remain in the U.S. for the federal response to Hurricane Milton, the White House announced on Tuesday morning.
“I just don’t think I can be out of the country at this time,” Biden told reporters, warning that Milton could be the worst hurricane to hit Florida in over a century. “We’re going to stay focused
Biden had planned to depart on Thursday for a two-day trip to Germany that was to include meetings with Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin and a summit with other international leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Russia’s war in Ukraine. The president’s subsequent visit to Luanda, Angola, on Monday was also going to mark the fulfillment of his pledge to visit Africa before leaving office.
But Milton, currently churning in the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 4 hurricane, is now expected to pummel the Florida Gulf Coast Wednesday and Thursday. The federal government has spent the last couple days positioning resources for the response and urging residents to evacuate ahead of what forecasts show is likely to be a catastrophic storm for the region…..
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“As many across the southeast struggle to dig out from Hurricane Helene and with Florida now bracing for Hurricane Milton, Donald Trump is making the storms a flashpoint in the presidential race,” Politico reports.
“The former president has seized on the devastation left by Helene to launch a barrage of misinformation — including promoting false claims that FEMA spent disaster relief money on migrants that add to his already inflammatory rhetoric about immigration.”
“Across visits to storm-torn states and through social media, he has cast Kamala Harris and the Biden administration as absent and incompetent in delivering aid even as members of his own party in affected areas say otherwise.”
Wall Street Journal: FEMA scrambles to confront two storms — and misinformation.
Associated Press: As FEMA prepares for Hurricane Milton, it battles rumors surrounding Helene recovery….
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Typical Donald Trump….
Instead of actually lending a hand to those going thru the Storms?
He’s going negative to help his own political well being….
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