Posted on 02/17/2023 6:44:31 PM PST by bitt
6:13 PM EST: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and FEMA make joint announcement of Biden administration's reversal to send disaster relief to Ohio.
The White House also reversed itself and pledged to “provide any additional federal assistance the states may need” to address the disaster.
Trump really stepped in it this time!
It’s all over for him now!
The walls are closing in...
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It’s really amazing how the Deep State and Never-Trumpers still fear his Force.
Kyle Becker:
Donald Trump on Friday announced his decision to travel to East Palestine, Ohio, the site of an ecological disaster caused by a Norfolk Southern train derailment on February 3.
One minute later, the Biden administration announced it is reversing its earlier decision and deciding to send disaster relief to Ohio, after all.
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How pathetic! But how could it be any other way than absolutely pathetic?
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Biden’s Flint, Michigan...except the media will be exceptionally quiet about this one, or blame the Rep. Gov.
I think the Trump effect is still mighty powerful.
No doubt that opposition is enraged behind the scenes.
LOL, they are so afraid of his shadow.
This is going to blow out bigger than they can imagine.
A guy from Lexington, Kentucky was on Instagram and birds
are falling out of the sky there.
He showed a parking lot in dim light, and you could see
dead birds there. The weather is overcast, with drizzle
and he’s certain it’s from East Palestine. He’s probably
right.
snip...”President Trump will be visiting East Palestine, Ohio next week This is what a real President looks like,” O’Handley tweeted.
A source “close to Trump” told Fox News Digital that he plans to visit with members of the community, adding that the 45th president has a strong relationship with the people of Ohio.
Trump’s announcement came soon after the White House said President Joe Biden has no plans to visit the area. In the two weeks since the train derailment and ecological disaster, neither Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg nor President Joe Biden has visited the county.
Columbiana County, where the epicenter of the environmental fallout is located, voted over 70% for Donald Trump in the last election.”
“Just in case you were wondering why Biden and Buttigieg are ignoring the toxic chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio,” O’Handley remarked. “Columbiana County voted 71.7% for Trump in 2020.”
Trump’s announcement that he would visit East Palestine preceded the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s reversal of its earlier decision to deny Ohio federal disaster relief.
They’re trying to save face. They failed big.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg earlier blamed the Trump administration for the train derailment, while claiming he was powerless to do more to prevent it. But a Biden official on Thursday called out Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for spreading “misinformation” about his dodging of responsibility for the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio and his blame of former President Donald Trump.
Buttigieg claimed on Tuesday he is “constrained by law on some areas of rail regulation” and then cited a “braking rule” that was removed in 2018 during the Trump administration.
But National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy retorted on Twitter: “PLEASE STOP SPREADING MISINFORMATION” about the cause of the train disaster.
She blasted the claim as “misinformation” and directly addressed the ECP (electronically controlled pneumatic) brake rule.
“That leads me to my last point: anyone speculating about what happened, didn’t happen, or should’ve happened is misleading a suffering community – PLEASE STOP SPREADING MISINFORMATION. For example… Some are saying the ECP (electronically controlled pneumatic) brake rule, if implemented, would’ve prevented this derailment. FALSE.”
The NTSB Chair explained that “The ECP braking rule would’ve applied ONLY to HIGH HAZARD FLAMMABLE TRAINS,” and that “the train that derailed in East Palestine was a MIXED FREIGHT TRAIN containing only 3 placarded Class 3 flammable liquids cars.”
“This means even if the rule had gone into effect, this train wouldn’t have had ECP brakes,” Homendy stated.
Homendy expanded on the reason that blaming the removal of the brake rule under the Trump administration was a false narrative.
(HUZZAH!!!)
Phosgene is nothing to fool with, much less generate.
Sadly many of the stupid will continue being willfully ignorant.
Why isn’t ButtEdge pedaling his way to eastern Ohio 24/7?
PDJT Strikes again
“It’s all over for him now!”
Really??? The Governor, FEMA and White House refused to provide emergency status and all that goes with it. The people of Palistine are in dire straits.
Trump states this evening he would go there next week.
Hours later the Governor, FEMA and WH reverse their positions and will provide the help they should have at the outset.
What that says is that his enemies are still scared to death of Donald Trump.
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