[November 13, 2024] Under President Biden and Kamala Harris, FEMA has been slow to respond to hurricanes this year, which includes slow aid delivery, failure to quickly and accurately assess damage areas, and lacking knowledgeable leadership on the ground. Now we discover another massive scandal when it came out that FEMA workers have been directed to bypass the homes of Donald Trump’s supporters.
According to internal FEMA documents and confirmed by multiple federal employees, FEMA officials told workers not to help people with Trump signs on their front lawns if their homes were damaged by the hurricane that recently struck Florida. In one case, a FEMA Supervisor sent out a written message to “avoid homes advertising Trump.”
This would, in effect, stop FEMA from rendering aid to qualified citizens. The supervisor’s name is Marn’i Washington. She was fired. Due to her guidance, at least twenty homes were skipped from the end of October and into November. In FEMA’s database, these homes were labeled with messages such as “Trump sign, no entry per leadership.”
This is unacceptable. It also runs against the core values of America. By doing this, FEMA has failed at their mission and their action shows classic poor leadership in the entire leadership chain.
“I volunteered (from another federal agency) to help with the disaster relief and now that I’m here, I’m being told to discriminate against certain people.” – Anonymous
No explanation was given to employees for the guidance. FEMA representatives did acknowledge this happened but said it was an isolated incident. Chad Hershey is above Marn’i Washington and said this was not acceptable behavior. We are told that Marn’i had no authority to make such a decision and she was not given direction to do so.
The kind of proper question we should be asking is “What type of government culture allows such unacceptable decision making?” This falls back onto the quality of leadership of the FEMA Director. The Florida governor is initiating an investigation into how and way this happened. I understand there may also be a Congressional investigation.
“The blatant weaponization of government by partisan activists in the federal bureaucracy is yet another reason why the Biden-Harris administration is in its final days.” – Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida
I also listened to an interview of the fired FEMA supervisor, Marn’i Washington, and she says this is all wrong and she is being used as a scapegoat. She claims that FEMA has a risk-avoidance mandate, meaning that if their workers encounter hostile civilians, they are to de-escalate, back off, and avoid the area.
In addition, she said that whole streets or neighborhoods may be labeled as too risky and to be avoided and this way of not providing emergency help is FEMA wide. FEMA looks at “community trends” and if determined as “dangerous,” the entire area is bypassed.
If what she is saying is true, and I believe she may be right, then the corruption of how FEMA conducts themselves is much worse than Marn’i Washington’s behavior in this one isolated case. It appears that FEMA now needs a top-down, detailed review of its standard policies and procedures and how its leaders are trained and evaluated.
America has a massive scandal on its hands, if what this FEMA supervisor says is true.
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Under Joe Biden, I’m not at all surprised one bit. Lazy, weak, brain addled, lacking discipline, partisan, and full blown socialist.
Typical. Just another Biden-Harris bureaucratic cesspool of corrupt idiots that can’t do the job, don’t want to do the job, and they certainly don’t like the American people. I’m ashamed to call myself a patriot when our government allows this kind of behavior to continue over and over. Here’s the issue, if it weren’t for this woman putting discrimination in writing, the everyday clueless FEMA worker would have just obeyed and thought nothing of it. The whistleblower was a volunteer from another agency, not affiliated withFEMA. Looks like president-elect has a lot of work to do to drain the swamp.
No surprise here. Democrats are the party of corruption.
FEMA looks at “community trends “ to determine if they avoid that area? Crazy. Who makes that determination?
That’s how China operates. We aren’t and will never be a communist nation. 🇺🇸
FEMA discriminates against Trump supporters. Who would have believed it?
The leftist government fact checkers got it wrong. Hey, Donald, get the popcorn, this is going to be an interesting week just watching this latest massive FEMA scandal blow up. And it’s only Wednesday. Ha Ha Ha. The Democrat party cockroaches are running as the light is being shown on them. Good. About time America starts replacing Woke leaders with real leaders. Biden is going down in history as the worst president ever. 🤮
POPCORN FUTURES ARE UP.
Jennifer, you got that right. And only because Trump won the election are we seeing Progressives running for cover and outing their comrades.
SHOCKING. We were told that FEMA avoiding Republican strongholds was a “right wing” conspiracy. Hold my beer! The Democrat Party just made it true.
👀 This is about to explode and Gen. Satterfield is on the leading edge. 👀
A scandal of potentially titanic proportions is brewing at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Last week, FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell fired Marn’i Washington, the official accused of discriminating against Donald Trump-supporting hurricane victims in Florida, casting her as a lone wolf, a bad apple in an orchard full of good ones.
Not so fast.
On Tuesday, Washington — and another ex-FEMA employee who spoke with The Post — disputed the relatively rosy picture painted by Criswell.
According to the recently disgraced Washington, “FEMA preaches avoidance” from potentially contentious situations.
NY Post story.
https://nypost.com/2024/11/12/opinion/fema-not-helping-trump-voters-wasnt-isolated-and-its-a-massive-scandal/
FEMA administrator Criswell is about to get burned to a crisp. This is shocking, if proven true, which now appears to be the case. I can’t wait for Donald Trump to get in charge and clean out the overwhelmingly stupid wokesters running these bureaucracies. The Veterans Administration is another one, and Gen. Satterfield has also written about their scandals. It’s going to take a long time to unscrew the damage done by Biden and Harris.
OUCH ………………..
There is nothing like a big govt agency run by a leftist woman with a mandate to push out white males and substitute POCs and women. The end result is corruption of the entire organization. Now this story is about to explode in the next several days. I suspect that the head of FEMA is about to resign her position after she is exposed publicly in front of Congress. Thanks Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for this debacle.
SHOCKING …. JAIL TIME.
Stupid is, as stupid does.
Got that right, Forrest. Definitely jail time but bureaucrats in the Democrat Party don’t go to jail, they just get recycled.
😂😂😂😂😂
LOL
Corruption at the highest level.
Now we see that Kamala grossly mismanaged her one billion dollar campaign fund and gave millions for celebrities to endorse her. And now she is $20 million in debt. What a grifter she is.
🙏 Pray that all those folks like us who gave her money now know that she gave your hard-earned dollars to multi-millionaires. Ya just got to smile at the irony of this.
Nothing like a little grift and corruption.
This is what the ultimate outcome of prioritizing DEI over mission.