“My point is.Do u think USA wants to C him playing golf while Louisiana is 20 feet under water & people R dying?” she said in another tweet. However, Press Secretary Josh Earnest said in a statement that the President has received updates on the situation in Louisiana from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and the FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate who were on separate trips there.
Advertisement
Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-La., fired back at former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuiani’s criticism Sunday morning on CNN’s “State of the Union”, saying he has no partisan motivation for his differing opinions on political visits for Louisiana flood relief.
Bash then threw the question out to Edwards.
Donald Trump slammed President Obama for not interrupting his vacation to visit Louisiana after deadly flooding in Baton Rouge and parts of Lafayette.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate Mike Pence speak with flood victims outside Greenwell Springs Baptist Church in Central, Louisiana, August 19, 2016. And I want to thank Mr. Trump for coming to Louisiana.
Edwards had also defended President Barack Obama’s absence, saying he anxious it would be a drain on resources. I would just as soon have those people engaged in the response rather than trying to secure the president.
Trump’s trip to Louisiana, a rare departure for the candidate whose campaign so far has consisted largely of mass rallies and television phone-ins, came a day after he made a rare expression of remorse for making comments that “may have caused personal pain”.
The flooding has killed at least 13 people and more than 100,000 people have registered for federal assistance in southeastern Louisiana as of this morning, according to the Louisiana governor’s office.
The president asked his team to work with Louisiana officials to determine an appropriate time to visit, and they settled on Tuesday, Earnest said.
Advertisement
“These are our friends, our family members, our community-and they’re counting on us to reach out with open arms right now. Now I’m asking you to show that same support to the victims in Louisiana, so that we can begin to rebuild together”, she added. “I have done that”, the GOP nominee, reading from prepared text, said at a rally in Charlotte, N.C. Thursday night. “And I will tell you that I also appreciated the good phone call, the conversation I had with Governor Pence – who was honest and genuine when he called and we spoke for a long time on Friday morning about their desire to be helpful”.
