It took days after Hurricane Helene first began to wreak record-breaking havoc on North Carolina, but President Joe Biden has finally weighed in. The Democrat’s message North Carolinians suffering from one of the greatest catastrophes their region has ever experienced, however, was far from the compassion and empathy his party and corporate media pretend he touts.
At least 100 people are dead and hundreds more are missing after torrential flooding and landslides caused “biblical devastation” across Appalachia over the weekend.
President Joe Biden, who waited until after his restful Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, weekend to personally weigh in on the ongoing disaster, called the calamity “tragic” but failed to offer any further condolences or aid.
In fact, when a reporter asked the president if he had “any words to the victims of the hurricane,” Biden acted like his approval of Gov. Roy Cooper’s requested disaster declaration would be enough to sustain the state’s rescue and cleanup efforts as well their spirits.
“We’ve given them all — everything we have,” Biden stammered after chasing a rabbit about the differences in how Federal Emergency Management Agency and local officials measure the toll of natural disasters.
Biden insisted that feds were “on the ground ahead of time” and even promised that his administration is “working hard” to remedy the category four fallout. Yet when another reporter asked if there were “any more resources the federal government” could devote to the millions in the afflicted region who are still without power and cell service,
