How Trump and his allies spread false claims about FEMA and Hurricane Helene relief

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : Trump told a Butler, Pennsylvania crowd on Saturday that the administration is "offering them $750, to people whose homes have been washed away.""And yet we send tens of billions of dollars to foreign countries that most people have never heard of," he said.
32% : Although he didn't call out Trump by name, he wrote: "The last thing that the victims of Helene need right now is political posturing, finger-pointing, or conspiracy theories that only hurt the response effort.
28% : The editorial board for the second-largest newspaper in North Carolina have also taken issue with the conspiracy theories floated by Trump and his loyalists.
24% : "They stole the FEMA money just like they stole it from a bank," Trump said last week.
19% : Trump baselessly claimed that as the flood waters were rising, President Joe Biden's administration "was gone" and that survivors haven't seen "anybody from the federal government yet."Not only have Biden and Kamala Harris have both paid visits to the areas wrecked by the Category 4 storm, there are also nearly 7,000 federal personnel on the ground in the affected region, according to a White House memo.
10% : Incredibly, Trump did exactly what he now accuses Biden of doing -- he redirected $155 million from the disaster fund in 2019 to pay for additional detention facilities and "migrant transportation" resources, according to a Department of Homeland notice first reported by the The Washington Post.

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