Joe Biden on Friday, during his first visit to East Palestine, Ohio, since the train derailment disaster more than a year ago, struggled through his speech and lied about his administration's involvement in helping residents.
Remember, it was President Trump who visited eastern Palestine, not Joe Biden.
More than a year after the East Palestine train derailed, Joe Biden finally visited the site of the disaster.
Wild. Trump was there just days later with aid that Biden denied.
A thread from Biden's recent American leadership. pic.twitter.com/hhpcaprUVk
– Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) February 16, 2024
On February 3, 2023, just before 9 p.m. ET, a Norfolk Southern train derailed near East Palestine, Ohio, a small Midwestern town of about 4,800 people near the Ohio border with Pennsylvania.
At least 11 of the derailed train cars contained hazardous materials. Several cars were carrying vinyl chloride, a carcinogenic substance.
The Gateway Pundit reported on Joe Biden's train wreck speech on Friday (pun intended). The reclusive Biden was seen severely stammering his words, and at one point even blowing his nose during his seven-minute speech as he struggled to read his text.
Biden's entourage then forced reporters out of the room as they tried to ask him why it took a whole year to visit the city and why he came at this point.
Biden represented such a disaster during his visit to eastern Palestine that his handlers forced him to leave the room (video)
The photo op backfired so much, The Gateway Pundit reported that angry protesters greeted Biden with messages like “It's not too late, Joe!” In reference to his not being anywhere when the people of eastern Palestine were suffering from the disaster.
During the event, East Palestine Mayor Trent Conway noted that Biden's visit was “long overdue,” and noted that it finally came “on the one-year anniversary of the derailment.”
Mayor Conway previously endorsed Trump for president after Trump stepped up to the plate to visit and deliver supplies, including clean drinking water, to residents immediately after a chemical spill contaminated the water. “I would first like to thank Joe Biden and Hunter Biden — oh, that's right, they've been busy,” Conway said before praising President Trump's leadership at the annual Lincoln Day Dinner last year.
Conway continued, “We were asking for help, and we had the EPA there and other agencies, but we actually got help after you… Without you, it could have been worse.”
From Mayor Conway's remarks on Friday:
East Palestine, Ohio Mayor Trent Conway rightly criticizes President Biden when welcoming him to his city more than a year after the toxic chemical explosion:
“As we pass the one-year anniversary of the derailment.” pic.twitter.com/8herfNjthi
– Danny De Urbina (@dannydeurbina) February 16, 2024
Biden, who stuttered over his words, his face buried in his text, vowed: “We will not go home no matter what until this job is finished, and it is not finished yet.” “There is a lot to do,” he continued. Then he backed away, looking confused, saying, “The vast majority of these projects have been completed.”
Joe Biden to the residents of eastern Palestine:
“We're not going home no matter what until this job is done, and it's not done yet. There's a lot to do. The majority has been done.” pic.twitter.com/e4fr6d5cgS
– Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 16, 2024
In a clear lie to the people of eastern Palestine and America, Biden also claimed that “my administration was on the ground within hours… to make sure you had everything you needed.”
Remember, Biden's Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, told the same lie last year when he visited the country three weeks after it happened, saying: “We've been here since the first hours of the accident.”
After the train derailed, Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Ukraine while Buttigieg spent “some personal time.”
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