{"id":2456743,"date":"2025-07-08T08:52:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T12:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despicable-dems-campaign-on-texas-flood-victims-blame-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T08:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T12:55:45","slug":"despicable-dems-campaign-on-texas-flood-victims-blame-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despicable-dems-campaign-on-texas-flood-victims-blame-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Despicable Dems Campaign On Texas Flood Victims, Blame Trump"},"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%2Fdespicable-dems-campaign-on-texas-flood-victims-blame-trump%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=2456743&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--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-campaign-reacts-to-bump-stock-supreme-court-decision-the-court-has-spoken\/\" title=\"Trump campaign responds to Supreme Court&#039;s bump stock ruling: &quot;The court has spoken.\">provided text discusses<\/a> the aftermath of severe flooding in Texas Hill Country,which resulted in over 100 fatalities during the Independence Day weekend. It highlights the political divide as Democrats criticize the Trump governance, claiming mismanagement contributed to the disaster due to staffing shortages at the National Weather Service (NWS). Ken Martin, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Representative joaquin Castro called for investigations into NWS operations, despite lacking concrete evidence. <\/p>\n<p>In response, White House press Secretary Karoline Leavitt refuted these claims, insisting that the NWS was adequately staffed and issued timely warnings prior to the flooding, which was sudden and severe.The article also notes the inappropriate comments made by individuals exploiting the tragedy for political gain, including disparaging remarks about the victims by a former city appointee.<\/p>\n<p>the text underscores the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-interaction-with-wisconsin-police-officers-triggers-out-of-touch-leftists\/\" title=\"Trump&#039;s Meeting with Wisconsin Police Sparks Backlash from Out-of-Touch Leftists\">contentious political climate surrounding<\/a> the disaster, with accusations flying between parties rather than a unified response to the tragedy and the grieving community.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The worst of times has often brought out the best in Americans. But not always.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the death toll in the Independence Day Weekend&rsquo;s Texas Hill Country floods <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2025\/07\/07\/texas-flooding-live-updates-monday\/84488932007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">topped 100<\/a> people on Monday, Democrats played politics with devastation. The flailing party, which seems to be campaigning exclusively on hatred for President Donald Trump and a slogan of &ldquo;But People Will Die &hellip;!&rdquo; is blaming the Trump administration for the freak, fast-moving floods that have ravaged the <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/history-flash-flood-alley-hilly-region-texas-prone\/story?id=123531672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">flood-prone region<\/a> of Central Texas. They insist &mdash; falsely &mdash; that <a href=\"https:\/\/doge.gov\/savings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Government Efficiency<\/a> (DOGE)-driven cuts to the federal government&rsquo;s bloated workforce prevented the National Weather Service from effectively warning residents of the rapidly rising waters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m personally praying that <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> finally understands this is not a game &mdash; it&rsquo;s real life and there are serious consequences to playing politics with our security and emergency preparedness,&rdquo; Ken Martin, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reminder-staffing-shortages-at-the-national-weather-service-doubled-in-central-texas-under-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Looking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/knowles-the-bad-faith-debate-over-cancel-culture\/\" title=\"KNOWLES: The Bad Faith Debate Over \u2018Cancel Culture\u2019\">score political points<\/a> on the bodies of victims, Democrats called for investigations to determine whether reports of staffing shortages at NWS offices in Texas exacerbated the catastrophe. Rep. Joaquin Castro, a Democrat who represents San Antonio, was quick to cast suspicion on the Trump administration while acknowledging he didn&rsquo;t have all the facts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to sit here and say conclusively that that was the case, but I do think that it should be investigated,&rdquo; Castro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/06\/politics\/video\/texas-congressman-joaquin-castro-discusses-latest-on-devastating-flash-floods\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> on CNN&rsquo;s <em>State of the Union<\/em>, whose Trump-hating host Dana Bash was more than glad to join fellow corporate media reporters in pushing the Democrats&rsquo; &ldquo;It&rsquo;s Trump&rsquo;s fault&rdquo; narrative.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Depraved Lie&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/white-house-blasts-schumer-democrats-depraved-lie-blaming-trump-texas-flash-flood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called<\/a> the Democrats&rsquo; latest nasty gambit a &ldquo;depraved lie,&rdquo; adding that blaming Trump &ldquo;serves no purpose during this time of national mourning.&rdquo; But a minority party wandering in a political wilderness of its own making seems to be dead set on campaigning on the flood victims. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt told reporters during a Monday press conference that the NWS offices in the region, including centers in San Antonio and San Angelo, were fully staffed and issued &ldquo;timely and precise warnings.&rdquo; She detailed the many watches and warnings issued by the Weather Service well in advance of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/texas-flooding-guadalupe-river-how-much-rain-fell-national-weather-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rain event<\/a> that turned out to be much more severe than predicted, at exactly the worst time.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;People were sleeping in the middle of the night when this flood came &ndash; that was an act of God, it&rsquo;s not the administration&rsquo;s fault that the flood hit when it did,&rdquo; the press secretary said, pushing back against the left&rsquo;s attack. &ldquo;But there were early and consistent warnings and, again, the weather service did its job.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The facts didn&rsquo;t get in the way of a good crisis for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. The New York Democrat played up his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/schumer-wants-probe-national-weather-service-response-texas-2025-07-07\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter<\/a> to a government watchdog demanding a probe into staffing vacancies at the Texas weather stations. Schumer, of course, quoted a New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/05\/us\/politics\/texas-floods-warnings-vacancies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">story<\/a> in which an NWS employees union official complained about staffing vacancies, which labor unions are wont to do. The claims were disputed by the government agency.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Extra staff members from both offices, in addition to the West Gulf River Forecast Center, had extra personnel on the night of Thursday, July 3 into the day on Friday, July 4,&rdquo; the National Weather Service said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/me\/maine\/news\/2025\/07\/07\/white-house-defends-staffing-at-texas-nws-offices-amid-floods-democrats-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement.<\/a> &ldquo;All forecasts and warnings were issued in a timely manner. Additionally, these offices were able to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >provide decision support services<\/a> to local partners, including those in the emergency management community.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;No Place in Decent Society&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>The NWS assurances didn&rsquo;t stop the left&rsquo;s &ldquo;depraved lie.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of depravity, Trump Derangement Syndrome pinup girl Rosie O&rsquo;Donnell, thankfully Ireland&rsquo;s problem now, went on a verbal bender on TikTok.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When the president guts all of the early warning systems and the weather forecast abilities of the government, these are the results that we&rsquo;re going to start to see on a daily basis,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2025\/07\/07\/rosie-odonnell-trump-texas-flooding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">raged<\/a> the former<em> View<\/em> panelist who previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/rosie-odonnell-reveals-she-very-depressed-overdrinking-after-first-trump-win\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blamed<\/a> Trump&rsquo;s 2016 presidential win for a drinking problem and for &ldquo;overeating.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Because he&rsquo;s put this country in so much danger by his horrible, horrible decisions and this ridiculously immoral bill that he just signed into law &hellip; people will die as a result, and they&rsquo;ve started already. Shame on him,&rdquo; she said, referencing last week&rsquo;s passage of Trump&rsquo;s Big Beautiful Bill.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a former Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/06\/us-news\/former-houston-mayoral-appointee-rages-at-flooded-texas-girls-camp-for-being-white-only\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">appointee<\/a> to Houston&rsquo;s Food Insecurity Board played the most despicable form of identity politics in suggesting the white Christian girls from Camp Mystic who died in the floodwaters didn&rsquo;t deserve sympathy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I know I&rsquo;m going to get canceled for this, but Camp Mystic is a whites-only girls Christian camp. They don&rsquo;t have a token Asian, they don&rsquo;t have a token black person. It is an all-white, white-only conservative Christian camp. If you ain&rsquo;t white, you ain&rsquo;t right, you ain&rsquo;t getting in, you ain&rsquo;t going. Period,&rdquo; Sade Perkins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/en\/trending\/detail\/sades-world-camp-mystic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> in her rant.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Sade Perkins &mdash; founder of Freedmen&rsquo;s Town Farmers Market in Houston, Tx &mdash; just used the deaths of missing children to launch a bitter, racially charged rant.<br \/>Instead of compassion, she mocked grieving families.<\/p>\n<p>No matter your politics, this is shameful.&#128071;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TexasFloods?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TexasFloods<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kG0LQ7CcAx\">pic.twitter.com\/kG0LQ7CcAx<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Leisha (@LoneStarChica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LoneStarChica\/status\/1941904296183795719?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Houston Mayor John Whitmire, a Democrat who served in the Texas state Senate for 40 years before being elected to the mayoral post in 2023, issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/cw39.com\/news\/local\/whitmire-calls-out-former-city-employee-for-deeply-inappropriate-online-posts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a> calling Perkins&rsquo; comments &ldquo;deeply inappropriate and have no place in decent society, especially as families grieve the confirmed deaths and the ongoing search for the missing.&rdquo; Whitmire noted that Perkins is not a city employee and that she was appointed by former Democrat Mayor Sylvester Turner. Sylvester <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/rep-sylvester-turner-texas-democrat-houston-mayor-dies-70-rcna194875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">died in March<\/a> while serving his first term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Perkins&rsquo; term on the board expired in January. Whitmire said he was taking steps to permanently remove her from the board and that he would not reappoint her.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Statement from the Mayor&rsquo;s Office<br \/>&ldquo;The comments shared on social media are deeply inappropriate and have no place in a decent society, especially as families grieve the confirmed deaths and the ongoing search for the missing. &#129525;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Houston Mayor&#8217;s Office (@houmayor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/houmayor\/status\/1941898529212956974?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>But Perkins wasn&rsquo;t done insulting the dead and the sensitivities of a community in mourning. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dr-jordan-peterson-lashes-out-at-canadas-commissars-after-board-threatens-his-medical-license\/\" title=\"Dr. Jordan Peterson Lashes Out At Canada\u2019s \u2018Commissars\u2019 After Board Threatens His Medical License\">subsequent social media posts<\/a>, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14880909\/camp-mystic-houston-sade-perkins-blame-trump-whites-only.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">described herself<\/a> as a &ldquo;scapegoat to cover up for the f***up of a flood,&rdquo; and, like her fellow leftists, blamed &ldquo;MAGA Trump up there in the White House&rdquo; for the historic deadly floods.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I did not cause the flood, nor did I cause the failure from the National Weather Service and FEMA. Those were done by design, by the [Texas] Lieutenant [governor], and by the Governor, and your f***ing President,&rdquo; Perkins said. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Camp Mystic family was grieving the loss of 27 campers and counselors Monday evening, praying for the safe return of the missing, and leaning on the God that brought them together in worship. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our hearts are broken alongside our families that are enduring this unimaginable tragedy. We are praying for them constantly,&rdquo; the camp <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campmystic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> on its website. &ldquo;We have been in communication with local and state authorities who are tirelessly deploying extensive resources to search for our missing girls &hellip; We ask for your continued prayers, respect and privacy for each of our families affected. May the Lord continue to wrap His presence around all of us.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During tough times, Americans often show their best, but not always. As the Texas Hill Country floods claimed over 100 lives, Democrats politicized the tragedy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2456744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-07-at-11.11.16-PM-1024x521.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[58607,58606,58478,4931],"class_list":["post-2456743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-blame-trump","tag-despicable-dems","tag-texas-flood","tag-victims"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-07-at-11.11.16-PM-1024x521.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456743","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\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2456748,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456743\/revisions\/2456748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2456744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}