As some question whether warnings could have been sent out sooner and possibly saved lives lost to a deadly Texas flood, President Donald Trump has said that only an “evil person” would question the timing of the alerts.
Trump held a press conference Friday after visiting Texas with First Lady Melania Trump to see the devastation left after a flash flood in Kerr County killed over 100 people last week including dozens of children at a summer camp.
During the press conference, a reporter said that several families were angry because they felt that alerts for the flood did not go out in time. The reporter then asks Trump what he has to say to those families.
Trump starts his answer by saying that he believes those who responded to the emergency did an incredible job before ripping into the reporter and the basis of the question.
“I have admiration for the job everybody did,” Trump said. “Only a bad person would ask a question like that to be honest with you. I don’t know who you are but I think only an evil person would ask a question like that.”
The response to the disaster has remained under scrutiny due to speculation about what more could have been to give victims proper warning.
According to the Washington Post
, Kerr County had the capability to issue a wide ranging alarm to every cellphone in the area before or during the flooda but did not do so.
Republicans have called out Democrats for attempting to “politicize” the issue as it occurred in the state led by conservative Gov. Greg Abbott.
U.S. Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala, went on
Fox News earlier this week
and said that Democrats were being toxic in the wake of the floods while exhibiting “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
However, during California’s wildfires in January Trump and other Republicans attacked the state‘s response while blaming the disaster on it’s Democratic leadership specifically Gov. Gavin Newsom.
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala,
said in January that California
did not deserve aid to assist in the disaster because voters chose to elect, “imbeciles.”
Sarah Marsh, eight-years-old
, from Mountain Brook, was identified as one of the people killed during the flooding.
Many remain missing
from Alabama, including Eddie Santana Sr., 69, and his wife, Ileana, 66, from Mobile and their granddaughter, five-year-old Mila Rosa Santana.
