Members of the “Blood Tribe” and “Goyim Defense League” chant “white power” in Altamonte Springs, Florida.
The White House announced on Friday that the president, the first lady, Jill Biden, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) administrator, Deanne Criswell, would still be travelling to Florida on Saturday. A statement said that the visit was “planned in close coordination with Fema as well as state and local leaders to ensure there is no impact on response operations”.
The timing of the visit, days after the hurricane passed through, comes after Biden was criticized for taking almost two weeks to visit the devastated Hawaii town of Lahaina after it was destroyed on 8 August.
The DeSantis administration’s criticism of the timing of Bidens’ visit comes only a day after it was indicated that the state and national leaders would meet to jointly survey Hurricane Idalia’s damage.
‘Blood Tribe’ leader Christopher Pohlhaus, a former Marine who also goes by ‘Hammer’, spoke on an overpass alongside members of both ‘Blood Tribe’ and ‘Goyim Defense League’ today in Florida.
The rightwing DeSantis has made slamming Biden at the heart of his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination – a race in which he lags far behind frontrunner Donald Trump.
Usually presidential visits to disaster zones are a rare source of bipartisan cooperation in America’s fractured political landscape and DeSantis’s stance earned him some condemnation. “By refusing to meet with President Biden, he’s proving again what we’ve known for years – Ron will always put politics over people,” the Florida Democratic party chair, Nikki Fried, posted.
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