Lara Trump clashes with CNN anchor Dana Bash as she rips FEMA's response to Hurricane Helene By Dominic Yeatman For Dailymail.Com Published: 03:06, 7 October 2024 | Updated: 03:30, 7 October 2024 e-mail View comments A defiant Lara Trump tore into CNN 's Dana Bash after the anchor accused her father-in-law of spreading 'misinformation' about money for hurricane victims being spent on migrants. Donald Trump who visited the disaster zone in North Carolina on Friday slammed the $750 being offered in emergency relief for families who have lost their homes to Hurricane Helene.
And he claimed that millions of dollars in FEMA funding have been redirected to migrants illegally crossing the southern border, claims that Bash flatly told her guest were 'untrue'. But the RNC co-chair pointed out that just $750 is currently available to the thousands devastated by the Category 4 hurricane, and said money for migrants could be redirected 'immediately' to help survivors in her home state. 'Why don't they have anything in order?' she demanded on Sunday.
'Why is it that right now the citizens in western North Carolina are screaming for help, and it's having to come from local citizens?' RNC co-chair Lara Trump insisted that the millions spent by the Federal Emergency Management Agency on migrants would be better spent on hurricane survivors CNN anchor Dana Bash demanded she condemn 'misinformation' spread by Donald Trump More than 220 people are known to have died in America's deadliest hurri.