Yesterday, nearly a week after Hurricane Helene ripped through portions of the southeast and parts of western North Caroline, President Joe Biden finally traveled to the Carolinas to survey devastation from Hurricane Helene.
Residents, particularly in the western portions of North Carolina have been cut off from roads, food, water, and even communication and now begin rebuilding their shattered homes and lives.
Biden visited Greenville, South Carolina, and later got an aerial view of the extensive damage in Asheville, North Carolina. Vice President Kamala Harris also made a trip to a highly impacted state, meeting with local officials and first responders in Augusta, Georgia.
“I’m here to say the United States – the nation – has your back,” Biden said at an emergency command center in Raleigh alongside North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper. “We’re not leaving until you’re back on your feet completely.”
But were they ever there to begin with?
A first responder who was been leading rescue efforts doesn’t seem to think so.
Jonathan Howard with Florida State Guard Special Missions Unit assisting with aerial recovery in North Carolina following the damage of Hurricane Helene, delivered a damaging video message explaining what is really happening on the ground.
“I had my team up here working as well. Here’s the problem. I’m going to tell you everything that’s happening from the ground, what I’m actually seeing, because what they’re telling you is complete bullsh*t on the news and these politicians don’t have a f*cking clue and they’re lying,” Howard said.
“I don’t know why they’re doing it,” Howard said of the federal response. “I don’t know what kind of conspiracy I’ve heard so many things, whatever you want to come up with, but they are literally allowing these people to f*cking die in the mountains right now because we can’t get helicopters. They got money for everything else in the f*cking world right now.”
Watch Howard’s complete assessment of what’s really happening — or not happening. The video does contain graphic language.
Jonathan Howard of the Florida State Guard Special Missions Unit blasts hurricane rescue efforts:
“What they’re telling you is complete bullsh*t on the news, and these politicians don’t have a f*cking clue and they’re lying.”
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) October 2, 2024