Dems dumb attack on Trump
Donald Trump has been accused of many outlandish things, but killing children with flash floods has to be among the worst.
The first reflex of his critics was to blame him for the appalling tragedy in central Texas, where a flood on July 4 killed more than 100 people, including over two dozen children at a Christian summer camp.
This is one of the deadliest floods in the United States in the last 100 years, and the toll among kids is a particular gut punch.
It’s natural that observers will ask how it could have happened, but the fact-free, malicious attacks constitute one of the more poisonously stupid episodes of the Trump years — and that’s saying a lot.
The theory here is that Elon Musk’s chainsaw cuts to the National Weather Service gutted the agency, with catastrophic consequences. See, Trump’s adversaries say, we told you DOGE would get people killed.
There were indeed staff reductions at the National Weather Service, totaling about 10%.
The idea, though, that this suddenly rendered the agency inoperable is absurd. (Trump’s budget proposes a very slight increase in funding for the NWS, by the way.)
In keeping with standard practice, the weather service in Texas surged extra staff as the storm gathered.
There is no doubt that the agency did its job. On Sunday, it noted the potential for heavy rainfall during the coming week.
A few days later, it was talking of the possibility of flooding Thursday, July 3. Then, on Thursday morning, it issued a flood-hazard outlook, followed in the afternoon by a flood watch.
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This is the kind of political attack that makes you wonder if there is any intelligent life in the Democrats' leadership. The response of the Democrats to a natural disaster is to blame Trump. Texans should be offended by the callousness of the Democrats in response to the weather. No wonder the Democrats' approval rating remains so low. The smart move would have been to ask how they could help with the response to the natural disaster.
See also:
Karoline Leavitt Blasts Democrats Over ‘Depraved Lies’ Blaming Trump for Texas Floods
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