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Government Corruption
Rep. Staube: ‘Alleged Text Messages’ From DC to FEMA ‘Directing’ Them to Skip Trump Supporters
2024-11-13
[LegalInsurrection] “…alleged text messages from Washington, DC to the supervisor advising them and directing them to do this. So somebody higher up within FEMA was advising the people on the ground to do this.”

by Mary Chastain


Rep. Greg Staube (R-FL) revealed on Fox News that someone or persons in Washington, DC, sent text messages to the FEMA supervisor, who directed people to skip houses supporting Donald Trump after Hurricane Milton.

STAUBE: If it was happening in Lake Placid, it’s happening all across the great state of Florida. Probably happening in western North Carolina. Probably happening all of the states that were hit by Hurricane Helene, and that’s what we in Congress need to get to the bottom of. FEMA, the administration wants to say this was an isolated incident, but there are alleged text messages from Washington, DC to the supervisor advising them and directing them to do this. So somebody higher up within FEMA was advising the people on the ground to do this. So if it was happening in Lake Placid, I can guarantee you it was happening in other places, all across the great state of Florida and the country. And the Oversight Committee needs to get to the bottom of this. The very first stop would be the person who was fired. Put them under oath and ask them who in their chain of command was directing her to do this. There’d be some interesting testimony.

BILL HEMER: You touched on this a moment ago. Ron DeSantis, your governor, sent this out on X, “The blatant weaponization of government by bipartisan activists in the federal bureaucracy is yet another reason why the Biden Harris administration is in its final days.” Can you reflect on that at all? That last point there, coming off this election.
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Posted by:badanov

#5  You have to bear in mind, All government programs start from a failure, turn into a crusade, and end as a jobs program. Every single one of them, including DoD.
Posted by: ed in texas   2024-11-13 12:32  

#4  It’s a job worth doing, but not the way it’s being done by the people who are currently in charge. Move the HQ to Appalachia. Staff it with personnel from the Cajun Navy.
Posted by: Super Hose   2024-11-13 12:08  

#3  FEMA has an approved supplier list. If your company isn't on the list you can't help during a disaster. Can you say graft?
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2024-11-13 10:11  

#2  FEMA is another agency that can be abolished without the taxpayers losing anything.

It's sole purpose originally was to disburse money to states that had large disasters, not take over those areas. After Katrina, the entire focus changed and it started to buy and hoard equipment.
Posted by: EMS Artifact   2024-11-13 10:07  

#1  I wouldn't be surprised if the texts were hacked and the on site administrators were just the type to go along with it.
Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Best_Desert    2024-11-13 08:48  

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