Trump tours areas of Texas that flooded

 Axios:

President Trump defended his administration's response to the Texas Hill Country flooding after surveying the damage and meeting with victims' families on Friday in Kerrville.

The big picture: The president's visit comes amid questions about the federal response to the flooding, as he has pushed to dismantle the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

  • FEMA did not deploy search and rescue teams to Texas until more than 72 hours after the flooding, per CNN.
  • Still, Trump arrived to friendly faces in Texas, where Gov. Greg Abbott and other Texas officials have continued to praise his response.

The latest: At least 121 people were confirmed dead and more than 170 still missing on Friday, a week after the floods hit, per CBS News.

  • President Trump also on Friday approved Abbott's request for federal disaster assistance for more counties, in addition to the hard-hit Kerr County.

What they're saying: "My administration is doing everything in its power to help Texas," Trump said at a roundtable press conference, surrounded by Texas Republican leaders.

  • "When the request was made for the emergency funds ... we gave it within about two minutes, maybe less, and they had everything they needed right immediately."

By the numbers: The federal government has deployed more than 400 first responders to Texas, Trump said, and enabled more than 1,500 rescues.

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While we have continued to get a lot of rain in Washington County, Texas, I have seen no serious flooding.  I live in a rural area and my house is on a hilltop.  The roads are still passable.  The current precipitation is more like drizzle.

Victor Davis Hanson gives some of the more atrocious comments by people who seem glad about the floods.

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We had this minor official—a Democratic official—Sade Perkins, and she posted that she was almost happy that we lost over a hundred people, the majority of them children, in this flash flood in Texas. She said they were “all white,” and therefore, they were discriminatory. I’ve never seen anything like it.

And then, people weighed in. And they had some atrocious comments. A pediatrician was almost gloating. And they had a variety of mechanisms to show how grotesque and ghoulish they were.

One group of people said, “It was global warming. You people in Texas”—where, by the way, there’s more, I think, there’s more wind turbines and solar than almost anywhere—“you people denied global warming. This was caused by global warming. And therefore, you got your just desserts.”
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There is much more at the link above.  I would point out that the temperature during this rainfall has not been warmer than normal. 

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