Former President Donald Trump visited in North Carolina on Monday for a series of events in the key swing state he’s won narrowly twice before.
In his fight to keep the state in his column, Trump continued spreading falsehoods about the federal government's response to Hurricane Helene, charging that the Federal Emergency Management Agency ran out of money for North Carolinians because they spent it on undocumented immigrants — claims that have been thoroughly disproven by officials across the political spectrum.
What You Need To Know
- Former President Donald Trump was in North Carolina on Monday for a series of events in the key swing state he’s won narrowly twice before
- He falsely claimed that the federal government had run out of funds to help North Carolinians in the wake of Hurricane Helene because the Federal Emergency Management Agency instead spent it on undocumented immigrants
- Those claims have been thoroughly disproven by officials across the political spectrum
- When asked by a reporter about recent incidents of gunmen harassing aid workers in Tennessee and North Carolina, Trump expressed little concern about the threats that derailed FEMA’s relief efforts last week
- Trump had three North Carolina stops scheduled for Monday, while former President Bill Clinton appeared last week with Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate, Tim Walz, and followed with several visits in eastern North Carolina
The first stop of the day was a press conference in...
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