Biden did not say he lost his home to a fire, he specifically said "I can only imagine what it is like to lose your home". He said he could not go back there for about a year, which seems fair for a kitchen fire that took 20 minutes to get under control. The tweet you quoted is flat out lying. What are your thoughts about that?
I suppose you could say Biden was exaggerating what he went through in trying to establish empathy. The end is good (empathy), but that does not justify the means (exaggeration), and he should not be doing that.
Saying no comment was much better. Really powerful. And his lying is the problem not your pettiness of word usage. Funny how you bring up lying then the next second call Biden lying "exaggeration"... You conveniently look past the actual lie that Biden used and blamed the Republicans. Very nice tactic lol. Surprised
@fishonjazz hasn't said that what Biden did was wrong like he claimed.
Biden’s response has also been criticized, including by Maui Island resident Ella Sable Tacderan, who gave an emotional interview last week to CNN that has been widely circulated.
“Where’s the president?” she asked. “Why are we getting put in the back pocket? Why are we being ignored?”
Historian Douglas Brinkley, who wrote a book about the response to Hurricane Katrina, said Biden has “fallen very short on handling this emergency.”
Maui residents say federal government response was slow
Correa, who has been working with other private citizens and some nonprofits to get supplies to victims, said it felt as if the federal government was slow to get involved.
Once it did, she appreciated how search and rescue efforts were expanded. But Correa also said there’s a perception that the U.S. has been more generous to other countries, like Ukraine, than it has been to those who lost everything in the wildfires.
That includes criticism that FEMA’s one-time payments of $700 per household to help assist survivors with immediate essentials, including clothing, food and transportation, was not enough – especially when many households are made up of multiple generations.
“To be candid, when he said $700 per household, I'm like, what are we supposed to do with that?” she said.
“His coming into Hawaii now is a bit of a Johnny-come-lately,” Brinkley said Monday on MSNBC.
After touring Maui, Biden vowed, "the entire country is here for you." But he also faced grieving residents distraught over the pace of relief.
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