Just twelve days after Helene, Hurricane Milton is expected with terror in Florida, in the Tampa region, on Wednesday, October 9. There is not enough time to clean up the rubble in the face of this new calamity, of a power not seen in a century, according to experts. While local and federal authorities are busy, Republicans are not idle. Donald Trump has made these repeated hurricanes a topic of controversy. The former president and his allies organized an online campaign of lies and misinformation, for electoral purposes, never before seen on such a topic. Their goal is to implicate the Biden administration for its alleged inaction. In key states, such as Georgia or North Carolina, nothing is negligible, twenty-eight days before the elections, scheduled for November 5.
Faced with this crisis on multiple fronts, Joe Biden decided on Tuesday to cancel his trips to Germany and Angola in the coming days. During a meeting with his advisors, before some journalists, the president asked for an emergency evacuation of the population. He also blamed those who spread misinformation. “to try to undermine the administration.” According to Joe Biden, this campaign “deceives” the population, thus causing panic. “It’s ‘un-American’. People are terrified. They know their lives are at stake, everything they’ve worked for, everything they own, everything they hold dear.”
the expression “unamerican” It is a recurrence with Joe Biden, who used it to condemn Donald Trump’s comments about NATO. In the past, the latter has already distorted the facts about natural disasters, such as the wildfires in California, denying the climate crisis. But the change in scale is surprising.
Trump accuses Biden of “sleeping”
According to Donald Trump, “This is the worst response since Katrina”the hurricane that devastated New Orleans in 2005 and immensely weakened then-president George W. Bush. In his memoirs, titled Decision pointsHe wrote, a few years later: “The problem was not that I made wrong decisions; It took me too long to decide. » In short, a simple “Problem of perception, not reality.” It is difficult not to think about this strange distinction, taking into account the slowness of the current administration in taking political – and not humanitarian – action for the event.
the 1Ahem In October, at the White House, Joe Biden appeared before the press to comment on the passage of Hurricane Helene. The president spoke with the interested governors. He announced the deployment of 3,600 federal agents. Joe Biden said he intended to go there, but not right away. “They told me it would be harmful if I did it now.” he explained, so as not to disturb the emergency services. The vice president, for her part, cut short her stay on the West Coast to return to Washington and participate in a briefing for emergency services. Kamala Harris also thought it was better to wait a few days before going to disaster areas.
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