Jessica Tarlov isn’t letting Jesse Watters’ hypocrisy surrounding the Texas floods and 2024’s Hurricane Helene go unnoticed.
Tarlov went after her “The 5” co-host for not holding President Trump to the identical commonplace relating to the Texas flood that he did when Hurricane Helene made landfall underneath the Biden administration. Significantly when it got here to the lies Trump was peddling about FEMA within the aftermath of the September 2024 storm.
Jessica: We have been right here across the desk when hurricane Helene struck. I didn’t hear Jesse Watters saying that Donald Trump ought to cease spreading lies concerning the Biden administration and the FEMA funds. pic.twitter.com/pcDEGcK3yD
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 7, 2025
“I don’t suppose that speaking about preparedness or what may need helped qualifies as impugning the reminiscence of these which were misplaced or detracting from the considerate dialog that should happen as a result of this river has been flooding for a really very long time,” Tarlov stated. “We have been right here across the desk when hurricane Helene struck. I didn’t hear Jesse Watters saying that Donald Trump ought to cease spreading lies concerning the Biden administration and the FEMA funds.”
She continued: “Trump got here out and he stated ‘they’re giving your FEMA {dollars} to illegals, they’re housing them together with your FEMA {dollars}.’ Then he stated you’re solely going to get $750 from FEMA – which was a whole lie and there are Republican officers who’ve testified to the truth that folks didn’t get their FEMA help due to what Trump and different Republicans have been saying.”
Tarlov concluded that GOP legislature rejected “over $54 billion in recognized wants by way of catastrophe resistance” that might have helped mitigate the injury from the Texas floods.
“That’s one thing that they will work on to maneuver ahead and hopefully keep away from a tragedy like this once more,” she completed.
The flash flood catastrophe struck Texas over the Fourth of July weekend with a present loss of life toll of greater than 100, in line with the Related Press, together with 27 campers and counselors from Camp Mystic. That quantity is anticipated to climb as officers proceed to seek for survivors amongst the devastation.
“We have now been in communication with native and state authorities who’re tirelessly deploying in depth sources to seek for our lacking women,” Camp Mystic shared in a Monday assertion. “We’re deeply grateful for the outpouring of help from neighborhood, first responders and officers at each stage.”
You may watch Tarlov’s phase within the video above.
