A New York Times fact-check that claimed Donald Trump lied when he said FEMA deliberately neglected the storm-ravaged homes of his supporters has been debunked — but you’d never know it.
The “paper of record” has yet to publish a correction, even though the disaster agency last week revealed Trump was right all along.
The Oct. 4 Times article, entitled, “Trump’s False Claims About the Federal Response to Hurricane Helene,” has not been revised and remains published online even though it says the president-elect “falsely accused” the Biden administration of “neglecting areas that had voted for Republicans.”
The federal disaster relief agency last week even sided with Trump, saying one of its employees, Marn’i Washington, gave workers in Lake Placid, Fla., the disturbing order to “avoid homes advertising Trump” in a “best practices” memo to employees obtained by Daily Wire.
The 39-year-old Washington also allegedly issued the cruel edict verbally to workers on the ground.
One of those workers wrote a message in FEMA’s tracking system about a skipped house, saying, “Trump sign no entry per leadership,” according to a screenshot obtained by the outlet.
FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell called Washington’s actions “a clear violation of FEMA’s core values and principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation.
“This employee has been terminated and we have referred the matter to the Office of Special Counsel,” Criswell added in her statement.
She further pledged she’d “do everything I can to make sure this never happens again.”
Yet in spite of Washington’s termination and the agency chief’s admission, the Oct. 4 Times article — written by staff reporter and “fact checker” Linda Qiu — still accuses Trump of fibbing about the federal government giving preferential treatment to those who didn’t support his campaign.
https://nypost.com/2024/11/10/us-news/nyt-has-yet-to-issue-correction-for-wrongly-claiming-trump-falsely-accused-fema-of-avoiding-supporters-homes/