WASHINGTON: An unsightly political storm is churning over catastrophe assist for hurricane victims, with MAGA Trumpers alleging that Kamala Harris is “stealing” emergency reduction cash to provide to unlawful immigrants and fund warfare in Ukraine.
The fees are coming from the highest ranges of the MAGA hierarchy, with Trump, his son Eric, and his tech-bro Elon Musk amongst others making the case, with wild numbers and conflated information, that Harris is short-changing Individuals in favor of unlawful immigrants and overseas international locations.
Trump himself, below scrutiny from the left over apprehensions he’s already setting the stage to say election fraud, unloaded towards Harris at a rally on Thursday, alleging her administration “stole” billions in emergency reduction cash to accommodate unlawful immigrants in luxurious resorts — together with giving them $1 billion for reward playing cards — whereas making an attempt to register them to vote within the election.
“There are 157 resorts in New York Metropolis which might be utterly stuffed with unlawful immigrants… and then you definitely see these footage of husbands and wives and youngsters who’ve misplaced all the things… and what does Kamala do? She comes out and presents $750… ” Trump son Eric advised Fox Information, the main echo-chamber for MAGA views.
MAGA principals additionally raged towards cash being spent on overseas wars, together with in Ukraine and Israel, alleging sums starting from $ 60 billion to $ 175 billion had been funneled into the conflicts.
Whereas political experts say Harris herself has little discretion within the matter (the cash appropriated by Congress the place Republicans have majority), analysts, economics Nobel laureate Paul Krugman amongst them, accused Trump of “political dishonesty” in “making an attempt to influence voters that America is a nation with a collapsing financial system overrun by violent immigrants.”
Nonetheless, the costs of cash diversion caught on MAGA circles, the place demonisation of immigrants had now taken on harmful proportions.
“Sure, they’re actually utilizing YOUR tax {dollars} to import voters and disenfranchise you! It’s occurring proper in entrance of your eyes. And FEMA used up its price range ferrying illegals into the nation as a substitute of saving American lives. Treason,” Elon Musk mentioned on his platform X (previously Twitter), the place he has repeatedly posted disinformation and MAGA propaganda.
Musk additionally introduced that he’ll be a part of Trump at a rally on Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, web site of the primary assassination try on the previous President, because the MAGA narrative of stolen elections picked up steam.
On Thursday, a decide in Colorado sentenced Tina Peters, a 69 yr outdated election clerk, to 9 years in jail for illegally hacking voting techniques in the course of the 2020 elections. Peters was discovered responsible by a jury of permitting unauthorized entry to confidential voter information to personal people affiliated with a outstanding Trump MAGA supporter Mike Lindell.
Distinguished MAGA activists raged towards the sentence on Thursday. presenting Peters as a Gold Star mother and most cancers survivor who was monitoring “election fraud” — regardless that they’ve failed to ascertain such fraud on a big scale — and the way she is now a “political prisoner” imprisoned by a political system managed by Democratic “deep state.”
