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Donald Trump has continued to push the vile claim that federal officials are withholding disaster aid from Republican areas devastated by Hurricane Helene.

GOP governors have contradicted this, and it is backfired, focusing media attention on Trump's own record of disaster relief as president, which really did feature the ugly politicization

he's now accusing others of. For instance, Politico just reported that President Trump

initially refused to approve disaster aid for California after wildfires in 2018, due to the state's

Democratic lien, according to two former Trump officials. And today, we're talking about this with one of

those officials, Olivia Troy, who was a senior

Homeland Security official in the Trump administration and has since been a leading critic of

the former president. Thanks so much for coming on with us, Olivia.

Thanks for having me, Ray.

Okay, let's start here. The other day after Trump started pushing that lie that disaster relief is being denied to Republicans, you did a tweet that got some attention. It said this, quote, as a Homeland Security Advisor in the Trump White House, I witnessed firsthand how Donald Trump politicized disaster elite, leaving devastated Americans waiting for help.

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