His press conferences are getting worse, and President Joe Biden told Trump to “get a life, man!” and said that hurricane relief workers “received death penalties.”
“Our fellow Americans are putting their lives on the line to do this dangerous work and receive death penalties — some received death penalties yesterday as a result of recklessly irresponsible, relentless disinformation and outright lies that continue to flow,” Biden said, meaning death threats, not penalties.
The president also accused his predecessor, Donald Trump, of spreading incorrect information about how the government and his administration are handling victims of the deadly hurricanes.
“Mr. President Trump, former President Trump, get a life, man!” Biden said Thursday.
“Help these people.” “The public will hold him accountable,” the president said, “you better in the press hold him accountable, because you know the truth.”
The New York Post refers to how Trump accused the Biden administration of neglecting to help heavily Republican areas of western North Carolina and said he called billionaire Elon Musk to deploy Starlink satellites to provide the region with internet — an initiative Biden later claimed credit for.
The New York Post continues:
Trump also highlighted FEMA expenditures on illegal immigrants after Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claimed last week that hurricane relief funds were running low. The White House has cast that argument as misleading because the migrant funds were approved by Congress for that purpose.
Although some local officials blasted FEMA’s initial response to Hurricane Helene, especially in western North Carolina and Georgia, some specific anecdotes — such as the aid agency seizing goods or blocking the flow of private assistance — didn’t hold up to subsequent scrutiny.
The White House has further alleged that the framing of some criticism constitutes misinformation — including GOP scorn over an initial $750 relief payment that neglected to note that further help would come later.
The Biden administration is making accusations that critical rhetoric from Trump and others could discourage victims from taking their support.