Hurricane Helene Victims is a pro-Trump ad

Fox & friends Co-host sent Lawrence Jones traveled to Swannanoa, North Carolina, to report on the area devastated by Hurricane Helene and filed a report that could easily have been mistaken for a pro-Trump 2024 campaign ad.

The federal government's response to the massive disaster — particularly in the mountainous region of western North Carolina near Asheville — has become a partisan talking point, fueled in part by baseless claims from the former president Donald Trump that money was stolen from the Biden-Harris administration to pay migrants, among many other false claims.

The information dispute over FEMA disaster relief and the Biden-Harris administration was the subject of the Fox & Friends 6 AM A block, and the pro-Trump messages of its on-air talent were unmissable, at least in Jones' comments And Will Cain. If viewers missed that nuance, a package featuring disaster victims from the region was aired, which turned into something we should all expect to be posted on Trump's Truth Social account in the next few hours.

“I don’t think she’s doing enough and I don’t think Biden is doing enough either,” one resident said.

Another said of the FEMA relief: “It's pretty much a slap in the face. We don't get the support from her, from the president, from the sitting president. We’ll just have to suffer through it and figure it out ourselves.”

“I would say to Kamala Harris that this tragedy did not happen in a beautiful neighborhood in downtown Asheville. Get out, put on your rain boots, put on your mud boots and put on your gloves. Get out there and walk two and a half miles through what I hiked to get back to Asheville and my family. “You go for it, and then you tell me how it is,” another angry resident said, calling the vice president Kamala Harris. “You increase it. You’ve improved your game.”

Then everything clearly turned in Trump's favor. “President Trump will do a lot. He will help us,” said a resident. “He definitely shows up. And he makes it clear he knows what’s going on and wants to help,” said another. “We have to get him back in there.”

Jones then spoke with a local restaurant owner who refused to take the partisan bait, instead focusing on how many area food service workers have worked together to provide food and supplies to disaster responders and local residents in need.

As the remote segment reintroduced the studio hosts, the topic of FEMA's perceived injustice was brought up in a Sunday interview on ABC's This Week George Stephanopoulos and FEMA director Deanne Criswell, with a misleading edit.

After Stephanopoulos addressed the “misinformation that exists, including former President Trump's claims that FEMA is missing about $1 billion because the money went to undocumented immigrants,” Criswell pushed back, calling it ” frankly ridiculous and just plain wrong.” This kind of rhetoric is not helpful to people. You know, it’s really a shame that we prioritize politics over helping people.”

“And that’s why we’re here. We had the full support of the state. “Local officials have helped us push back on this dangerous, really dangerous narrative that creates this fear of reaching out and helping us or signing up for help.” Your comments will then be edited to also say about the “Convenience “FEMA employees in the region speak. “It has a huge impact on the well-being of our own employees to be able to go out there.”

However, her comment, as aired on Fox & Friends, leaves out the crucial context in which Stephanopoulos asked about a social media post on Saturday that pointed out: “A militia should take action against FEMA.” Yes, some local residents are threatening FEMA workers with North Carolina militias, largely in part because of the distrust and division sown by former President Trump, which is particularly prevalent in this segment expression comes.

““I’m not going to say they’re not here,” Jones chimed in, acknowledging the FEMA director. “But what I can say is that residents say they don’t see them. I mean, what's worse? What’s worse for you, being on site and the residents not seeing you, or being on site and actually doing no work at all for the people here on site?”

After praising the relief efforts on the ground, Jones added: “What I keep hearing from these organizations is that in many cases the government is making it harder for them to do their jobs.”

“Do you think the people we talked to yesterday are interested in politics right now?” he asked mockingly, perhaps hoping that viewers would forget the partisan attacks they had seen just minutes before. “They just lost their home. They don't have running water. The last thing you care about is the next presidential election, guys. “

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