CNN Anchor Spars With Republican Over Trump Pushing 'A Lot Of Lies' On Hurricane Response
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"If you can believe it, none of that is true," said Abby Phillip after clips played of the GOP nominee's false claims about the Biden administration.
CNN anchor Abby Phillip checked former California Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado on Friday for dismissing Donald Trump’s “plainly false insistence” about the Biden administration’s response to Hurricane Helene.
Phillip pointed to clips of the GOP nominee who, at campaign events this week, falsely claimed that the federal government is offering “no help” because its spending money on immigrants instead of relief for those impacted by the deadly storm.
“They stole the FEMA money just like they stole it from a bank,” the former president claimed at a rally in Saginaw, Michigan on Thursday.
“They’re missing a billion dollars that they gave to migrants coming into our country,” he told a crowd in Fayetteville, North Carolina on Friday.
Phillip gave a blunt assessment of the clips.
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