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Trump tours La. flood damage, draws cheers as he says region will rebuild
Fox News.com ^ | August 19, 2016

Posted on 08/19/2016 12:19:34 PM PDT by Kaslin

Donald Trump landed Friday in flood-ravaged Louisiana Friday, where he consoled homeowners and toured devastated communities, telling one homeowner he is "going to rebuild."

The Republican presidential nominee, with running mate Mike Pence at his side, stopped at the home of Jimmy and Olive Gordan in Denham Springs, where the couple was still sweeping out floodwaters from their home. A ruined couch, chair and bedroom furniture were piled on their lawn, and Jimmy Gordan told Trump he spent his 79th birthday on the roof of his house.

"I just don't know what we'll do," the man told Trump.

"You're going to rebuild,” Trump told him as the two hugged. “It's going to be so beautiful."

Trump and Pence received a warm reception as they toured a heavily-damaged portion of East Baton Rouge Parish. A crowd of supporters near a local Baptist church where volunteers have gathered to feed flood victims cheered the pair.

"Thank you for coming, Mr. Trump," one woman screamed.

"We knew you would be here for us!" another shouted.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: flood; louisiana; louisianaflood; trump; trumplouisianaflood
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To: nfldgirl

Fox reported the ‘other’ knee-pad MSM came out and accused DT of a photo op. You know, the same bunch that accused Bush of not being serious about Katrina.


61 posted on 08/19/2016 1:41:51 PM PDT by QT3.14 (USA facing assisted-suicide by the Left)
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To: Kaslin

Point to Mr. Trump.

Continue play.


62 posted on 08/19/2016 1:57:05 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: Kaslin

Trump the voice of the people.


63 posted on 08/19/2016 1:57:46 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey (Hey Obama Guns don't kill people, Radical Muslims kill people.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft
Where is FEMA?

Accusing the Louisianans of discrimination.

64 posted on 08/19/2016 1:59:45 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: tomkat
This is what a Presidential Team looks like in a crisis...note Franklin Grahm is there along with Pruitt...to do the work needing done to help these people...


65 posted on 08/19/2016 2:01:23 PM PDT by caww
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To: PAR35
People are risking their lives to save animals


66 posted on 08/19/2016 2:03:21 PM PDT by caww
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To: QT3.14
Firemen sleeping on concrete to be ready to rescue more people.


67 posted on 08/19/2016 2:05:12 PM PDT by caww
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To: Mears

bfl


68 posted on 08/19/2016 2:05:56 PM PDT by Mears
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To: MaxistheBest
Nursing homes while being evacuated...


69 posted on 08/19/2016 2:06:27 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww
This is what a Presidential Team looks like in a crisis

I love that neither DJ nor Mike spoke to the Enemedia, only the volunteers and the victims !

Managed to be big league in their face without saying a word.

They epitomized 'Presidential' throughout .. something these tired eyes haven't seen in a very long time.

70 posted on 08/19/2016 2:09:17 PM PDT by tomkat (you can support America OR you can support Hitlary)
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To: Uncle Sham

Friday, August 19, 2016

...”Obama irks La. flood victims with memo warning them not to discriminate”....

let state and local officials know that he’s watching to make sure they don’t engage in racial discrimination.

In a 16-page guidance issued Tuesday, the Obama administration, led by the Justice Department, warned Louisiana recipients of federal disaster assistance against engaging in “unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin (including limited English proficiency).”

The guidance’s frameworks “highlight the importance of complying with nondiscrimination requirements of civil rights statutes, addressing the needs of the whole community, and ensuring equal opportunity to access recovery efforts.”

Needless to say, some Louisiana residents were offended, including the American Conservative’s Rod Dreher, who took umbrage at receiving an anti-discrimination lecture from Washington, D.C., as locals struggle to rescue, house and feed their neighbors.

“[E]verywhere you look you can find black folks and white folks loving on each other, helping each other through this crisis,” Mr. Dreher said in a Thursday post.

He referred to the guidance as a “long bureaucratic memo” issued by the “Department of Justice and many other agencies of the executive branch overseen by He Who Cannot Be Troubled to Leave Martha’s Vineyard.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/19/obama-offends-louisiana-flood-victims-me/


71 posted on 08/19/2016 2:12:49 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

72 posted on 08/19/2016 2:15:29 PM PDT by caww
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To: tomkat

I understand Trump asked that Media NOT be there....


73 posted on 08/19/2016 2:16:10 PM PDT by caww
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To: hoosiermama

I think there was also a picture from Billy Graham’s birthday showing them all together. Beautiful!


74 posted on 08/19/2016 2:21:33 PM PDT by mouse1
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To: caww
If that bilge doesn't make one's blood BOIL, nothing will !

'Hatred' doesn't do justice to my loathing of that vile PUNK.

- - -

And btw, great pics, thanks !

75 posted on 08/19/2016 2:22:02 PM PDT by tomkat (you can support America OR you can support Hitlary)
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To: Kaslin

TRUMP is Presidential, and he has NOT even been sworn in yet!!! But let’s be fair...Obama has to give some tough love to his pothead daughter, and it would be completely against medical advice for Hillary to be there in that heat and humidity. So of course, neither of them can make it! /s;)


76 posted on 08/19/2016 2:22:31 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Kaslin

More presidential than the alleged president. Again.


77 posted on 08/19/2016 2:22:37 PM PDT by OldNewYork (Operation Wetback II, now with computers)
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To: Kaslin

LA. Newspaper begs Obama to come there....

“Our Views: Vacation or not, a hurting Louisiana needs you now, President Obama

Advocate editorial Published Aug 17, 2016 at 8:00 pm | Updated Aug 18, 2016 at 3:17 pm

Obama has no doubt discovered that crises keep their own calendar, even when commanders-in-chief are trying to take some time off the clock. It’s an inconvenience of the presidency, but it’s what chief executives sign up for when they take the oath of office.

And if the president can interrupt his vacation for a swanky fundraiser for fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton, as he did on Monday, then surely he can make time to show up for a catastrophe that’s displaced thousands.

http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_f1ce22ee-64b4-11e6-b11a-a393ff25161d.html?sr_source=lift_amplify


78 posted on 08/19/2016 2:24:06 PM PDT by caww
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

Awesome video!


79 posted on 08/19/2016 2:30:59 PM PDT by Guenevere (If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

You bet it was


80 posted on 08/19/2016 2:34:52 PM PDT by Kaslin (He neededAwesomeOf the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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