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The federal agency [FEMA] has confirmed whistleblowers’ reports that FEMA supervisor Marn’i Washington told employees it was “best practice” to skip Trump-supporting homes as they canvassed Florida neighborhoods to determine who needed assistance following the recent Hurricane Milton. FEMA workers skipped at least 20 known homes with Trump signs or flags under Washington’s direction.

FEMA said it was “deeply disturbed by this employee’s actions” and claimed that the agency works to “hel[p] all survivors regardless of their political preference or affiliation.”

After the Washington Examiner pressed FEMA on whether the agency had fired the official who denied aid to Trump supporters, it replied, “We have taken measures to remove the employee from their role and are investigating the matter to prevent this from happening ever again.”

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You have to ask yourself how stupid is it really when that's what they've been taught to do and how to behave.

She's trash, but she's the scapegoat. She's exactly who they wanted when they hired her.

Any REAL journalist would be poking around there and finding out just how high up the chain that goes. Maybe start with asking her after they kick her to the curb.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
They only fired her after it became public knowledge. If it hadn't, they probably would have just shoved this under the rug.

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Exactly. They're only sorry that they got caught.

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What I would really like to see is whether there really was an active investigation going on BEFORE the SHTF.

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Yeah. It would be nice if journalists engaged in actual journalism in current year instead of ideology, propaganda and clickbait.

My guess is that we'll never hear about this incident again.

They'll probably find her another job too. I'm sure they can always find something for her to do at the post office or something.

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Trump is fine.
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The guys on Monday's edition of the RealClearPolitics radio show discussed whether an apology from FEMA will be the end of the story, first reported by the Daily Wire, that some disaster relief teams were ordered to avoid houses with Donald Trump campaign signs during the cleanup from Hurricane Milton last month.

"It really happened, and it's outrageous," said RCP co-founder Tom Bevan. "Of all the stories we've seen this election season, this one might be the most outrageous. To have the government deciding who does and does not get disaster aid based on their political affiliations, or whether they have Trump signs in their yards, is just the absolute antithesis of this country."

"And again, we were told by the media that this was not happening and didn't happen. This is the thing. Because the media didn't have any proof at the time, they said it couldn't possibly be happening, instead of saying it's a possibility and we should look into it," Bevan said.


"Actually, they were debunking it," added RCP Washington bureau chief Carl Cannon. "RealClearInvestigations sent two reporters. Some of our editors and reporters heard these rumors and sent two reporters to North Carolina. The first reporter didn't find anything like this, and found people actually working together, and FEMA doing the best they could. The second North Carolina-based journalist found some -- not these kind of shenanigans -- but FEMA maybe had said they'd done more than they had done."

"Well, it turned out that the editor's instinct was right, they were just looking in the wrong state -- it was in Florida. It was Highlands County, Florida, where this happened. A supervisor named Marni Washington put out this directive. The Daily Wire, it's a young reporter, Lief Le Mahieu, who nailed it down. They got the tip, and it took them a few days and they nailed it down," Cannon explained. "FEMA surprisingly admitted it and fired the woman, Marni Washington. She, in turn, gave an interview to the Washington Examiner basically saying FEMA was throwing her under the bus and she was a scapegoat. That's the word she used and she implied very strongly that these orders had come from higher up than her."

"It makes you wonder two things," Carl Cannon said. "The first is why was this clearly unlawful order even followed? And it was followed by teams of people from other branches of government that are attached to FEMA. Why didn't somebody just say no? But they did do it, and they passed over at least 20 homes in this one town."

"The second thing it brings to mind is where else did this happen? And how widespread is this?"

"People have been saying this is a right-wing MAGA conspiracy. And it turns out now we have proof that it happened, at least in this one case," Cannon said. "FEMA will say, when they finally come clean to congressional hearings, 'Oh, we were worried about our people's safety.' But it smacks of something else."

"I think we do need to get to the bottom of ‘how pervasive was this?’" Bevan added. It seems unlikely that some random supervisor would just come up with this on their own and direct their people to do this, that it didn't come from higher up."

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You have to ask yourself how stupid is it really when that's what they've been taught to do and how to behave.

She's trash, but she's the scapegoat. She's exactly who they wanted when they hired her.

Any REAL journalist would be poking around there and finding out just how high up the chain that goes. Maybe start with asking her after they kick her to the curb.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Now that she got thrown under the bus, go to her house and ask her if she saved any of their training tapes or any proof that somebody directed her to say it was "best practice" to bypass any house that advertised Trump.

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"FEMA surprisingly admitted it and fired the woman, Marni Washington. She, in turn, gave an interview to the Washington Examiner basically saying FEMA was throwing her under the bus and she was a scapegoat. That's the word she used and she implied very strongly that these orders had come from higher up than her."

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