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Letters from an American

October 4, 2024

Letters from an American

Heather Cox Richardson

Politics, News, History

53.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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October 4th, 2024.

0:10.0

Maggot Republicans are now lying about the federal response to Hurricane Helene,

0:15.2

in much the same way they lied about Haitian migrants bringing chaos and disease to Springfield, Ohio.

0:21.7

Both disinformation efforts are flat out lies and both are designed to

0:27.1

demonize immigrants. Immigration was the issue Trump was so eager to run on that he demanded Republican

0:33.8

lawmakers reject the strong border bill a bipartisan group of lawmakers had

0:38.5

hammered out. The federal response to Hurricane Helene has drawn bipartisan praise with Republican

0:46.1

Governor Henry McMaster of South Carolina thanking Biden by name for what McMaster called a superb response. But on Sunday, September

0:56.8

29th, two days after the hurricane hit, the right-wing organization started

1:01.8

by anti-immigrant Trump loyalist Stephen Miller

1:05.0

posted billions for Ukraine, billions for illegal aliens, and what for the

1:10.7

Americans? Reprogram every single dollar that FEMA has dedicated to support illegal aliens to go towards

1:18.1

Americans who are facing unprecedented devastation.

1:21.5

Yesterday in Saginaw, Michigan... unprecedented devastation.

1:22.7

Yesterday, in Saginaw, Michigan,

1:25.3

Trump echoed Miller, claiming that the Biden administration

1:28.7

is botching the hurricane response

1:30.9

because it has spent all the money appropriated for the Federal

1:33.8

Emergency Management Agency or FEMA on illegal immigrants. They spent it all on

1:40.8

illegal migrants. They stole the FEMA money just like they stole it from a bank

1:46.1

so they could give it to their illegal immigrants that they want to have vote for them, he said.

1:51.7

Today he claimed that a billion dollars was stolen from FEMA to use it for

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