A defiant Lara Trump tore into CNN’s Dana Bash after the anchor accused her father-in-law of spreading ‘misinformation’ about money for hurricane victims being spent on migrants.
Donald Trump who visited the disaster zone in North Carolina on Friday slammed the $750 being offered in emergency relief for families who have lost their homes to Hurricane Helene.
And he claimed that millions of dollars in FEMA funding have been redirected to migrants illegally crossing the southern border, claims that Bash flatly told her guest were ‘untrue’.
But the RNC co-chair pointed out that just $750 is currently available to the thousands devastated by the Category 4 hurricane, and said money for migrants could be redirected ‘immediately’ to help survivors in her home state.
‘Why don’t they have anything in order?’ she demanded on Sunday. ‘Why is it that right now the citizens in western North Carolina are screaming for help, and it’s having to come from local citizens?’
‘They are out of money in terms of the hurricane relief,’ Lara Trump told Bash on CNN’s State of the Union program.
‘We have another hurricane heading towards Florida right now. But they have said that there is no money right now. Why don’t they have anything in order?
‘In North Carolina I hear every day from people on the ground there, and they are desperate for help. It is a dire situation there.
‘The idea that we’ve spent $650 million in Fiscal Year ’24 on the migrant crisis that Kamala Harris was responsible for stopping and by all accounts created by having an open-door policy at our southern border is infuriating.
‘We could redirect money to help people immediately on the ground in North Carolina.’