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Government Corruption

Miranda Devine: Biden abused his authority by turning FEMA into a far-left political machine

2025-08-09

[NYPOST] The Biden administration abused its power by turning the entire mechanism of the federal government into a Democratic voter mobilization campaign, according to newly unearthed White House documents viewed exclusively by The Post.

The worst offender was FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, under the Department of Homeland Security, which was controlled for four years by Biden's Machiavellian border buster Alejandro Mayorkas.

When responding to an emergency or a natural disaster, FEMA employees were directed to make voter registration a ''key priority.''

They politically targeted vulnerable people in their hour of need instead of focusing on providing federal assistance.

Left-wing NGOs were brought in to ''educate'' FEMA staff about ''equity and voter access for individuals affected by disaster,'' says a Trump administration official.

''FEMA's job is to make sure Americans who have suffered catastrophic loss due to some disaster in their community [can access] food, water and shelter — Under President Biden, FEMA, like every agency, produced a plan on how they would leverage these crisis situations for political [purposes]. I can't think of anything more disgusting.''

FEMA snubbed GOP

FEMA employees were so fixated on voter outreach that, when they visited hurricane

...as in blow me down!...
-ravaged Florida last October, they didn't even bother knocking on the doors of houses that had Trump signs in the yard.

Instead of assisting Hurricane Milton survivors, they were instructed to ''avoid homes advertising Trump,'' according to an Office of Special Counsel complaint.

FEMA supervisor Marn'i Washington was fired as a scapegoat after Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called foul on the scam and the Daily Wire reported that at least 20 homes with Trump signs or flags had been skipped by FEMA and denied the opportunity of qualifying for federal assistance.

It stands to reason that if FEMA's priority was getting out Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
to vote, the last people they would want to visit were Trump supporters.

The Florida scandal came on the heels of the Biden administration's sluggish response to Hurricane Helene in Trump-supporting rural areas of North Carolina and Tennessee.

Whether it was Hurricane Helene, the Maui wildfires, Hurricane Ian, or the East Paleostine train derailment in Ohio, FEMA always came up short during the Biden years.

The agency's inadequate performance is more understandable when you realize that providing actual disaster relief to victims had become simply a side dish to the partisan political priorities of the Democratic Party.

Posted by:Fred

#5 It would be too confusing as to who was trying to buy or sell frames versus BJs.

What about the FBI and the CIA?

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2025-08-09 12:38

#4 Re #1: the MSM would trumpet it as evil.

Posted by: Rambler 2025-08-09 10:46

#3 This fulfilling yet another conspiracy theory.

Posted by: Rex Mundi 2025-08-09 10:39

#2 In order to commit that type of corruption you need a highly compromised staff. It will be impossible to accomplish disaster relief with that same staff, going forward. If a Hobby Lobby location, for instance, was perverted into a front for a prostitution ring, once the ring is uncovered, corporate is not going to resume operations with the same staff. They would close the store altogether. It would be too confusing as to who was trying to buy or sell frames versus BJs. FEMA cannot be reformed.

Posted by: Super Hose 2025-08-09 08:32

#1

NOTE:
To anyone.
Given, what the Biden Admin did was illegal.
If it is not legally addressed, then it could become a precedent.

What if, say a Republican or Conservative did the same to Democrats or other leftists?

Posted by: NN2N1 2025-08-09 07:08

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