A group of volunteers who saved an 11-day-old baby in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene questioned where the federal government and state leadership are as devastated communities continue to reel from the historic storm.
Florida Guard Special Missions Unit’s Jon Howard, Aerial Recovery’s Charlie Keebaugh, pilot Mark Roseman and civilian helicopter pilot Zeb Hadley are conducting search and rescue operations in North Carolina as the Biden-Harris administration’s leadership remains in question over their response to the catastrophe.
“There’s just a complete failure of weak leadership here in North Carolina, the federal government, and it takes mind-strong leadership in Florida to send us up here,” Howard told Bill Hemmer on Friday. “If it wasn’t for DeSantis sending the state guard special missions unit up here, this never even would have happened. But there’s just no support here. There’s no leadership.”
“When we meet these locals on the ground, they’re asking, like, ‘You’re from the state guard?’ I’m like, ‘I am from Florida,’ and they’re like, ‘Where’s North Carolina?’ You know, they’re asking where their leadership is,” he continued. “They have no understanding of what’s going on, and then we’ve even had people, officials here, try to kick us out of Lakemoor, out of Chimney Rock… Nonsense stuff. They’re asking me for my authorizations to be here… It’s the most insane thing you would ever see. It’s like they want these people to die.”
“There’s been a complete pattern of abandonment under Biden and Harris,” Mills said during “The Ingraham Angle” on Thursday, citing the administration’s handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal, the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel and civil unrest in Haiti.
“This administration, what the pattern is, you have to shame them into doing what is right,” he continued.