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DSR Network. I'm your host Greg Sergeant. 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, Greg.

Okay, let's start here.

The other day after Trump started pushing that lie that disaster relief is being denied to Republicans,

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