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Chapter 1: What happened to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp?
Well, here's some instant karma. The Republican governor of Georgia who said that he was supporting Donald Trump in the 2024 election for business reasons. He thinks Trump would be good for business. Of course, I'm talking about Brian Kemp. Well, he just got handed.
Chapter 2: How did Trump impact FEMA aid in Georgia?
some instant karma when the Trump administration denied necessary FEMA aid to Georgia that former President Biden was providing to the state of Georgia. Let me just show you the letter that Brian Kemp received from Donald Trump's FEMA as Trump's trying to gut FEMA.
Chapter 3: What were Kemp's past statements about Biden's aid?
Then I want to show you some videos where previously Brian Kemp talked about how former President Biden was giving him everything he needed regarding Hurricane Helene and any other disaster, which Donald Trump did not do in 2020. Huh? I might add.
Chapter 4: What lies did Trump tell about Biden and Georgia?
And then Donald Trump was lying about it and saying Biden was not giving the aid and Biden was being rude to Georgia and he was betraying the people of Georgia. Meanwhile, Trump's first act was to literally give the middle finger to the people of Georgia. And you see over and over again, these Republican governors, because of their spineless nature, destroy their own states. Because of what?
Mean tweets by Donald Trump? Mean truth social posts by Donald Trump? It's so pathetic. Let's go through the facts detail by detail here. This is from FEMA in response to the request by Governor Kemp. This is in response to your January 24th, 2025 request for an extension to the cost share waiver under major disaster FEMA-4830-DR that was declared on September 30th, 2024 due to Hurricane Helene.
So it's an extension of what Biden agreed to immediately. You specifically requested an extension of the 100% federal cost share for debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance to 180 days. And you reiterated your request for an increase in the federal cost share for permanent work to 90%.
Based on our review of all of the information available, it has been determined that the increased level of funding you have requested for major disaster FEMA-4830-DR is not warranted. Therefore, I must inform you that your request for an extension of the period of 100% federal funding for debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance to 180 days, is denied.
It says FEMA will monitor the situation, but it is otherwise denied. Going back to what Brian Kemp said in 2024, look, You may not like Donald Trump personally, but you like his policies a lot better than Kamala Harris, Kemp said at the Republican gathering. Quote, it's a business decision. You're making a business decision.
Okay, well, our economy was doing well under former President Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris. 16.4 million jobs were created. They brought inflation caused by Trump, one administration under control. never a month where jobs were lost. Consumer sentiment was feeling better.
We were talking about a Goldilocks economy, a soft landing with no recession when every economist in 2021 predicted because of Donald Trump's conduct, there was going to be a recession. And the stock market was up about 55% to 60%. Regardless, Brian Kemp and these Republicans, Donald Trump's policies were way better. He was destroying your state.
Look, take a look back at November 21, 2020, three days after asking Trump for disaster aid to recover from a tropical storm in 2020. Republican Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia enraged Trump by certifying the results of the election. Trump, who had been urging Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to
To declare him the winner in Georgia, assailed the governor as a moron and a nut job after the certification. Trump sat on the disaster request for 55 days before finally approving it. But he waited 55 days. Did Kemp not remember that? How about this? This is from September 30th, 2024. Donald Trump was lying that President Biden refused to talk to Georgia's Governor Kemp.
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Chapter 5: How did Kemp defend his support for Trump despite attacks?
So you take a look at what Governor Kemp is talking about as well. So here's Governor Kemp interviewing with Caitlin Collins as well. This is April 23rd, 2024, where he talks about how Donald Trump should not be given absolute immunity for his crimes. So Kemp is recognizing that Trump is engaged in criminality. Here, play this clip.
Trump is making an argument right now that is in the hands of the Supreme Court where it goes, that he has broad immunity from being president and that he can't be prosecuted for anything he did while he was in office. I wonder what you make of that claim.
Well, listen, I don't think anybody's above the law, you know, a Democrat, a Republican, an independent, myself or anybody else. So that's my personal opinion.
Do you think that those cases should go to trial before the election so voters can make a decision based off that?
Well, listen, I think most voters probably feel the same way I do. I mean, we're a country that was built on laws and the Constitution. And it's up to us really as elected leaders to be the ones that exemplify that in a lot of ways. So we'll see where the process plays out. I think probably they will be ruled on for the election.
But the wild thing is he could recognize Trump engaged in criminality. Trump can call him all of these names. Trump can deprive Georgia of all of the of all of aid that they desperately needed in 2020 during a tropical storm because Governor Kemp refused to break the law. And Governor Kemp still supports Trump. And then Trump responds by cutting off the FEMA aid to the people of Georgia.
And I'll show you this as well. This is Trump, October 4th, 2024. The lies just keep coming without fail at Governor Kemp's press conference in Evans, Georgia. So Kemp holds this press conference. Then Trump says the jobs report for September was bad. It was very good. He says the economy was bad. It isn't. He said the federal government isn't helping, while it is, with hurricane relief.
Continues to lie over and over again. Hat tip to Chris Borkowski for just writing that. Here's Trump saying it. Here, play this clip.
I'm not thinking about voters right now. I'm thinking about lives. And to be honest, it's much bigger than anything else. But we're thinking about lives, a lot of lives lost, a lot of people missing. And that's what I'd be focused on right now. You talk about the economy a lot out on the campaign trail.
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Chapter 6: What is Ground News and how does it help with media bias?
So Americans should prepare for some short-term pain?
No, you said that, I didn't say that.
Well, if prices go up,
Let's see what happens.
Nobody really knows what is going to happen other than... And so then a reporter says, well, maybe are you going to direct agencies to study if the tariffs are going to be harmful or cause inflation? It's like, no, I'm not going to do any of that. Here, play this clip.
...tariffs. Would you also direct agencies to study the impact they would have on prices in the U.S. ?
No, there's nothing to study. There's nothing to study. It's going to go well. The United States is going to become a very, very strong economically country. Yeah.
And folks, I can go state by state. I can look at how Donald Trump is harming Oklahoma as they're prioritizing buying his Bibles and other things and screwing over Oklahomans' education. You can talk about the Texas school voucher program, which is just destroying the education system there. You can talk about
In Alabama, where there's a Republican governor, how the people in Alabama are getting screwed. I mean, University of Alabama is the number one employer. Their aid's getting cut off by the Trump administration and a lot of social service. The red state's
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