What To Expect If Your Governor Doesn't Kiss The Ring Of Trump

 

‘Outrageous abuse of power’: Trump spurned disaster pleas amid feud with governor

Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee had to wait until President Joe Biden took office to get help for a deadly wildfire that occurred during the Trump administration.

In early September 2020, wildfires tore through eastern Washington state, obliterating tens of millions of dollars of property, displacing hundreds of rural residents and killing a 1-year-old boy.

But then-President Donald Trump refused to act on Gov. Jay Inslee’s request for $37 million in federal disaster aid because of a bitter personal dispute with the Democratic governor, an investigation by POLITICO’s E&E News shows.

(All the counties in Eastern Washington supported Donald Trump)

It wasn't until Joe Biden took office in January of 2021 that federal disaster relief was approved.

Don't for one second believe that it was only Democratic governors that Trump used disaster relief as weapon to punish those who wouldn't do his biding.

Utah

Trump took 97 days to approve a disaster request by then-Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, a Republican, following damaging storms in October 2020 despite a FEMA report showing the state sustained twice as much damage as needed to meet the threshold for providing disaster aid.

While Trump was considering the request, Herbert was one of the first Republican officials to recognize Biden as the election winner and denounced a decision by Utah’s attorney general to join a lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results in four states that Trump lost.

 

Donald Trump realized that he could use federal disaster relief as a weapon following a trip to Texas where he inspected the aftermath of a hurricane that had made landfall there.