CNN anchor Kate Bolduan reportedly criticized Trump National Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt for her claims regarding the incompetence hurricane response of the Biden administration.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other Biden administration responses to the devastating Hurricane Helene, as well as the impending response to Hurricane Milton, have been the subject of critical attacks by Trump and his allies in the media and politics.
Trump, in particular, has been advocating for theassertion that FEMA funds were diverted from the Hurricane response to help shelter migrants.
During the Wednesday morning edition of CNN News Central, Bolduan engaged in a ten-round debate with Leavitt regarding the storm misinformation. She subsequently concluded the conversation with a disappointed note:
“Things that the former president has said is FEMA funds were stolen to be used to house illegal migrants, that no one from FEMA was on the ground in North Carolina, that funds were being withheld from Republican areas of the state on purpose. None of that is true. The head of FEMA says that worse than it not being true, it is dangerous that if this is pushed and circulated for the people who are most in need of help. With that knowledge, is the former president going to stop saying this?” Boudan said.
“Well, first of all, Kate, let me just express our thoughts and prayers are with everyone in western North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and now Florida who are bracing for another devastating hurricane. The bottom line is that FEMA spent $1 billion on funding for illegal immigrants that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden let into the country. CNN and many mainstream media outlets reported that more than a month ago.” Leavitt responded.
Far-left reporter Aaron Rupar posted clips of the encounter on his X account:
“It’s okay for Donald Trump to do it but it’s not okay for the Biden administration to do it?” — CNN’s Kate Bolduan to Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt on Trump’s FEMA hypocrisy pic.twitter.com/YaJHW1dGGm
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 9, 2024
“Now, today, we find ourselves in a predicament where Americans are in dire situations in need of food and of water. And Secretary Mayorcas last week said that FEMA does not have sufficient funding to get through this crisis and through the rest of hurricane season.” she continued.
“No, no, no. But first on that, let’s let’s get let’s get to let’s keep to the facts, which is on that that suggestion that Donald Trump did make, that they were stealing money from FEMA and using it, and it’s all gone because they’re using it to house migrants. That’s not true. There’s no disaster relief fund money that was going in that was going to house migrants.” Boudan shrilly said shortly later in the discussion.
“I don’t think the American people care which pocket the money came from…” Leavitt concluded.
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