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<\/p>\nPresident Donald Trump touched down on Friday in hurricane-battered western North Carolina and wasted little time sending a heartfelt message to Americans in desperate need of help.<\/p>\n
Trump told reporters that he wanted to visit North Carolina before California because the people in the Tarheel state had been abused and forgotten about by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n
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Trump tore into the \u201cmismanagement\u201d of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) after landing in North Carolina and vowed to \u201ctake over\u201d Hurricane Helene\u2019s recovery to ensure that the federal funds are properly spent.<\/p>\n
Back in September, Hurricane Helene decimated western North Carolina resulting in 219 fatalities and nearly $80 billion in damages.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m stopping in North Carolina first because they\u2019ve been abused by what\u2019s happened. I mean, it\u2019s terrible. It should have been done. It should have been \u2014 a lot of things should have happened that didn\u2019t happen. So we\u2019re here. We\u2019re going to fix it. We\u2019re working with the gentlemen behind me and you know who they are and we\u2019re going to fix it and we\u2019re going to fix it as fast as you can. It\u2019s a massive amount of damage,\u201d Trump told reporters.<\/p>\n
\u201cFEMA really let us down, let the country down. And I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s Biden\u2019s fault or whose fault it is, but we\u2019re going to take over and we\u2019re going to do a good job. We\u2019re going to assign Mr. Whatley, who\u2019s fantastic, frankly, and the governor and everybody else that\u2019s going to work. We\u2019re going to supply the money to \u2014 supply a lot of the money, maybe you have to chip in something, you chip in a little something like maybe 25% or whatever. But we\u2019re going to get it done as quickly as we can. And we want to take care of the people of North Carolina,\u201d the president added.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s so interesting. Everybody\u2019s talking about California and that\u2019s a mess. But I said, I\u2019m not going to California until I stop in North Carolina. So here we are. We\u2019re going to go visit the site and we\u2019re going to work with probably three of the congressmen, Republican congressmen, who\u2019ve been fantastic, whose areas have been affected. And with Michael Whatley, the governor, and whoever else is, you know, we decide to get involved, probably less FEMA because it just hasn\u2019t done the job,\u201d Trump continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd we\u2019re looking at the whole concept of FEMA. I like, frankly, the concept when North Carolina gets it, the governor takes care of it. When Florida gets hit, the governor takes care of it. Meaning if the state takes care of it, you have a group of people come in from an area that don\u2019t even know where they\u2019re going in order to solve immediately a problem is something that never worked for me, but this is probably one of the best examples of it not working and there\u2019s been some others like it in Louisiana, etc. So we\u2019re going to be doing something on FEMA that I think most people agree,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n
Trump concluded,\u00a0\u201cI\u2019d like to see the states take care of disasters, let the state take care of the tornadoes and the hurricanes and all of the other things that happen. And I think you\u2019re going to find it a lot less expensive. You\u2019ll do it for less than half and you\u2019re going to get a lot quicker response. So that seems to be the recommendation, but we\u2019ll be making that recommendation over the next couple of weeks. We\u2019re going to go to the site now and we\u2019re going to figure out a plan for really demolition and cleaning because not a lot\u2019s been done. And we\u2019re very disappointed in the Biden administration, but we\u2019re going to make up for lost time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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