FLASHBACK: Was FEMA Punishing Trump Supporters in North Carolina?

  

On Friday, many of us were shocked to find that FEMA had refused to provide assistance to Trump supporters in Florida. In an exclusive story by the Daily Wire, we learned that a FEMA field manager, Marn’i Washington, had directed her team not to visit residences displaying campaign material supporting President Trump’s bid for a second term.

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I suppose what seems so unbelievable about the episode is not that one of the most politicized agencies in the federal government would punish Americans who supported a compet ing candidate but that a FEMA employee would take time to document an order to her staff to commit a felony. It brings to mind a scene from the epic HBS series, The Wire.

During the response to Hurricane Helene, there were numerous stories of late or nonexistent federal response to heavily Republican areas in western North Carolina. 

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On September 30, then-candidate Trump noted in a Truth Social post:

I’ll be there shortly, but don’t like the reports that I’m getting about the Federal Government, and the Democrat Governor of the State, going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas.

Despite this driving the “fact checkers” bonkers, the allegation clearly merits revisiting.

As I posted Saturday, the odds of a low-level part-time FEMA employee creating a policy to deprive Trump supporters of federal assistance and violate federal law in the process seem remote. The fact that Trump supporters were refused federal aid in Florida and that Trump had heard about the same happening in North Carolina suggests a more comprehensive FEMA policy aimed at displacing Trump supporters either for purposes of the 2024 election or to destroy conservative communities permanently.

Firing Marn’i Washington looks and smells like a cover-up.