The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Saturday confirmed that it fired an employee who had instructed relief workers in Florida to not go to homes with yard signs in support of then presidential candidate Donald Trump.
“This is a clear violation of FEMA’s core values and principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation,” FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell wrote in a statement. “This was reprehensible.”
The Daily Wire first reported on Friday that the now-terminated FEMA supervisor had ordered her employees to exclude Trump-supportive houses from their recovery efforts.
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Criswell added that the matter had been referred to the Office of Special Counsel for an investigation.
A New York Times fact-check claimed Donald Trump lied when he said FEMA deliberately neglected the storm-ravaged homes of his supporters has been debunked.
The NY Post reports the “paper of record” has yet to publish a correction, even though the disaster agency last week revealed Trump was right all along.
The Oct. 4 Times article, entitled, “Trump’s False Claims About the Federal Response to Hurricane Helene,” has not been revised and remains published online even though it says the president-elect “falsely accused” the Biden administration of “neglecting areas that had voted for Republicans.”
Yet in spite of Washington’s termination and the agency chief’s admission, the Oct. 4 Times article — written by staff reporter and “fact checker” Linda Qiu — still accuses Trump of fibbing about the federal government giving preferential treatment to those who didn’t support his campaign.
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