Former President Trump caused disruptions in disaster areas and spread hurtful disinformation while he was at it.
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This week Americans were subjected to scenes of a former president of the United States debasing himself by promoting obvious, easily refutable terrible misinformation about the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) efforts to support the needs of victims of Hurricane Helene. Donald Trump is spreading the lie that FEMA stole disaster relief funding to give free stuff to illegal immigrants.
Here is Trump lying to his rally crowd about FEMA’s disaster response:
Trump lies that people in North Carolina "are getting no help from our federal government because their money has been spent on people that should not be in our country." pic.twitter.com/Ng9H0L7lXw
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 3, 2024
And here is a discussion of Trump’s lies.
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The cartoon above was created by DonkeyHotey for WhoWhatWhy from these images: Donald Trump caricature (DonkeyHotey / Flickr – CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED), clouds (Quinn Dombrowski / Flickr – CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED), cat (Gratisography / Pexels), cat (Duy Nod / Pexels), cat (Berna Tosun / Pexels), cat (舞 龍 / Pexels), cat (Krasimir Georgiev / Pexels), dog (Blue Bird / Pexels),
