Karoline Leavitt, the nationwide press secretary for Donald Trump’s marketing campaign, appeared on CNN on Wednesday to do what Trump press secretaries do: misinform the general public. This time, it was concerning the federal response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Nevertheless, host Kate Bolduan was not having it.
“The former president has said that [Federal Emergency Management Agency] 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,” Bolduan said at the outset of the interview. “None of that is true. … Is the former president going to stop saying this?”
Trump and others’ claims have been debunked repeatedly, and Leavitt’s replied with one disinformation speaking level after one other. However Bolduan lower her off, declaring that Trump’s declare about President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris utilizing disaster-relief funds to accommodate migrants was “not true.”
“There’s no disaster-relief-fund money that was going to house migrants,” Bolduan mentioned.
“I do not suppose the American individuals care which pocket the cash got here from,” Leavitt mentioned, ignoring that the “pocket” was the crux of the query—and Trump’s lie.
“You do not suppose the American individuals care the place the cash comes from. You suppose it’s dangerous that they’re utilizing FEMA cash to accommodate migrants,” Bolduan continued. “Ironically, Donald Trump attempted something very similar to what he falsely now is claiming about [Biden and Harris].”
Bolduan then detailed Trump’s 2019 redirection of FEMA catastrophe funds to migrant operations on the U.S.-Mexico border.
“So he’s then okay with shifting disaster-relief funds for coping with migrants, however now is just not. Is that what you are saying?” Bolduan requested.
“What President Trump didn’t do is allow an open-border policy for four years,” Leavitt mentioned, launching into one in every of Republicans’ favourite false speaking factors.
“You say you have not heard Kamala Harris reply a query. I am simply going to go away it right here,” Bolduan interjected, clearly fed up with Leavitt’s act. “But I’m not hearing you answer the question of why it was okay for the Trump administration to use disaster-relief funds in order to deal with migrants in 2019, and it is now completely not okay, and something he’s hitting the administration on now.”
However earlier than Leavitt may give a nonanswer once more, Bolduan closes the entire thing down, saying, “We’ll go away it there as a result of I supplied you thrice to offer me the reply, and I am not getting it.”
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Trump’s marketing campaign workers and hangers-on have two job duties: spewing misinformation to the general public and doing harm management for his or her incompetent boob of a boss. The one character trait required for the work is an absence of disgrace.
