Subject: Trump Wouldn't Release Disaster Funds
...to wildfire victims in Orange County, CA, because he believed it would benefit democrats. Only after his staff provided him with data showing Trump had as many republican supporters in Orange County as he did in the entire state of Iowa did he release aid.
Mark Harvey, who was Trump’s senior director for resilience policy on the National Security Council staff, told E&E News on Wednesday that Trump initially refused to approve disaster aid for California after deadly wildfires in 2018 because of the state’s Democratic leanings.
But Harvey said Trump changed his mind after Harvey pulled voting results to show him that heavily damaged Orange County, California, had more Trump supporters than the entire state of Iowa, Harvey said.
No matter how bad you think Trump is, he's always worse.
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