By As Hurricane Helene leaves a 600-mile trail of devastation across the North Carolina, America’s worst fears about Joe Biden’s cognitive state have become reality. The president has revealed himself as not up to the task.
The New York Post reports that “the death toll from catastrophic flooding in the Asheville area of western North Carolina more than tripled on Monday to 35 — as survivors in remote mountain towns described seeing the bodies of victims stuck in trees.
Nationwide, there have been 120 fatalities from Hurricane Helene, which has cut a path of death and destruction across the Southeast since making landfall last Thursday.
The rains smashed the mountains of Buncombe County, which contains Asheville, washing away whole communities in floodwaters and mudslides. Roadways were buried or washed away, leaving victims cut off from rescue crews.”
The Post spoke to some of the victims of the devastation: “There were bodies in trees. They were finding bodies under rubble,” Alyssa Hudson, whose home of Black Mountain, a town of 8,400 people about 12 miles from Asheville, was carried away by the flood.
Although Hudson’s neighborhood was evacuated, she told the newspaper that she saw videos of her house submerged to the roof on social media.
“We started seeing videos of our house posted to Facebook,” Hudson said. “Our floors are caved in, our walls are gone. We had a shed in our backyard that they found two miles away.”
While North Carolinians saw their lives destroyed, the president relaxed on the beach in Delaware and got angry with reporters for asking why he wasn’t doing anything to help the victims, writes The Washington Examiner.
President Joe Biden defended being at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, as Hurricane Helene left a path of destruction in its wake across the country’s Southeast.
After addressing the nation regarding what he described as a “history-making” hurricane, which has killed 115 people across six states since making landfall last Thursday, Biden was asked why neither he nor Vice President Kamala Harris was at the White House last weekend “commanding” the federal response.
“I was commanding it,” the president told reporters Monday. “I was on the phone for at least two hours yesterday and the day before as well. I command it. It’s called a telephone.”
Biden, who also told reporters he was currently suffering from a cold, returned to the White House earlier than expected Sunday amid the storm. Harris is scheduled to return to Washington, D.C., on Monday, cutting her West Coast campaign swing short.
When Biden’s Department of Homeland Security Chief, who is in charge of helping Americans recover from the disaster, was asked what they were doing to help restore cell phone service, Secretary Mayorkas simply deflected and blamed climate change.
MSNBC: One North Carolina mayor called it “unacceptable and disgusting” that cellular service for the entire region remains blocked. What do you say to people who are desperate to know if their loved ones are still alive?
MAYORKAS: Climate change pic.twitter.com/cw0qci1fhr
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 30, 2024
On Monday, the president was asked if the White House would be providing resources, Biden said, flatly, “no.”
Joe Biden says no more additional resources for those in Western North Carolina.
Meanwhile…
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President Biden made another verbal slip on Sunday, expressing his strong support for “the collective bargaining effort” when asked by journalists about “strikes in Yemen” — the latest in a series of gaffes by the 81-year-old president.
Although Biden’s comments seemed to address a potential port-workers strike threatening to disrupt shipping from Maine to Texas, the question was actually about Israeli airstrikes targeting sites controlled by the Iran-backed Houthi movement in Yemen. As Biden was preparing to board Air Force One at Dover Air Force Base, a journalist called out, “Any comment on the strikes in Yemen, Mr. President?”
“I’ve spoken to both sides. They gotta settle the strike. I’m supporting the collective bargaining effort. I think they’ll settle the strike,” Biden responded, appearing to confuse the labor dispute with the military conflict in Yemen.
REPORTER: “Any comment on the strikes in Yemen, Mr. President!?”
BIDEN (or whatever’s left of him): “I’ve spoken to both sides. They gotta settle the strike. I’m supporting the collective bargaining effort. I think they’ll settle the strike.”
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 30, 2024
Biden appeared to be confusing military strikes with the looming port strike that may crush American supply chains.
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