{"id":2004676,"date":"2023-08-18T10:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T14:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-now-biden-blows-off-questions-about-hawaii-visit-amid-criticism-of-crisis-leadership\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T10:16:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T14:16:52","slug":"not-now-biden-blows-off-questions-about-hawaii-visit-amid-criticism-of-crisis-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-now-biden-blows-off-questions-about-hawaii-visit-amid-criticism-of-crisis-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden dismisses Hawaii visit queries amidst crisis leadership criticism."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnot-now-biden-blows-off-questions-about-hawaii-visit-amid-criticism-of-crisis-leadership%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2004676&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>President Biden Faces Criticism \u2062Over\u200d Handling of Hawaii Wildfires<\/h2>\n<div>\n<figure>\n    <!-- Image goes here --><br \/>\n  <\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>President\u2064 Joe Biden on\u2063 Thursday once again dismissed inquiries about the devastating Hawaii wildfires, drawing\u200d criticism for his leadership during the \u2062crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, not\u2063 now,&#8221; Biden responded to a reporter who\u2064 asked for details about\u2062 his upcoming trip to Hawaii on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to be \u200cleaving,\u200d and I&#8217;ll\u2062 be there\u2063 on Monday,&#8221; Biden added before walking away.<\/p>\n<p>The death \u2063toll in Maui has \u2064reached \u2063at least\u200d 111, with authorities still searching for human remains and over 1,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-now-biden-blows-off-questions-about-hawaii-visit-amid-criticism-of-crisis-leadership\/\" title=\"Biden dismisses Hawaii visit queries amidst crisis leadership criticism.\">000 people \u200dreported missing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After initially addressing the disaster last\u200c week, Biden remained silent on the \u200cissue for\u200c four\u200d days.<\/p>\n<p>His decision to refrain \u200cfrom commenting on the wildfires while\u2062 on a weekend beach vacation in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/items-seized-in-controversial-police-raid-at-family-owned-kansas-newspaper-returned\/\" title=\"Seized items from disputed police raid on Kansas newspaper returned.\">sparked widespread criticism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No comment,&#8221; Biden told reporters on Sunday\u2062 when asked about the wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier that day, Biden\u200b mentioned that &#8220;we&#8217;re looking at it&#8221; when questioned\u200d about \u2064the possibility \u200dof \u200ctraveling to Maui.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u200c also approved a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-issues-disaster-declaration-for-texas-amidst-severe-winter-weather\/\" title=\"Biden Issues Disaster Declaration For Texas Amidst Severe Winter Weather\">major disaster declaration<\/a>, allowing federal\u2063 funds and agencies to assist in\u200b the response.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Controversy Surrounding M.\u200d Kaleo Manuel<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>Another individual facing scrutiny is M. Kaleo Manuel, the former deputy director of the Hawaii Commission on\u2062 Water\u200d Resource Management.<\/p>\n<p>Manuel is accused of withholding water from firefighters battling the deadly wildfires in Maui.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karl-rove-calls-desantis-appointing-rfk-jr-to-the-fda-or-cdc-a-nutty-idea\/\" title=\"Rove deems DeSantis' choice of RFK Jr. for FDA\/CDC 'crazy'.\">made controversial remarks suggesting<\/a> that access to water\u200c should be conditional on discussions about equity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden dismissed questions about the Hawaii wildfires and criticism of his leadership during the disaster, stating, &#8220;No, not now.&#8221; When asked about his upcoming trip to Hawaii, he replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m leaving and will be there on Monday,&#8221; before walking away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":2004677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2004676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}