Biden defends not showing up as POTUS at East Palestine toxic spill

"Look, look, look"

So called US President Joe Biden defended his handler's decision to not offer emotional support to the residents of the town of East Palestine, Ohio, which voted heavily for President Trump in the last election and on Feb. 3rd suffered a major toxic chemical spill and fire caused by a train derailment. Instead, the commander in chief was ordered to go to Ukraine where his administration has shoveled billions in aid for their war effort. 

The cause of the derailment was determined to be an overheated wheel bearing on the 23rd car of the 149 rail cars, causing local officials to evacuate all residents within one mile of the accident and a controlled fire to burn off the vinyl chloride that was being transported in order to avoid an enormous explosion from occurring.

Biden mumbled the remarks during an interview with ABC News host David Muir that aired on Friday.

“So do you plan to travel there and have you talked with the mayor?” Muir asked the smirking Biden.

“I can’t recall whether, I don’t think I’ve talked to the mayor. I’ve talked to everyone else there,” Biden claimed. “Multiple times, talked to both the senators, both, both governors, I’ve talked to everyone that there is to talk to and we made it clear that everything is available.”

Both governors of Ohio? He probably was referring to Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, but is Joe ever clear about anything he says?

Muir then asked President Mumbles about comments the mayor of East Palestine made regarding his decision to not visit the American town, yet still found the time to visit Ukraine, a foreign country, which he said had "captured [my] heart."

“It’s been three weeks now since the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. As you know, the mayor says he saw you in Ukraine,” Muir said. “And he says it tells you he doesn’t care about us. They’re asking, ‘Is the president coming to Ohio?’”

“Do you have any plan to travel to Ohio?” Muir asked the cognitively impaired POTUS. “And have you talked with the mayor yet?”

“Let’s put this in perspective. Within two hours of that derailment, the EPA was in there, within two hours,” Biden mush-mouthed. “Every major agency in the United States government that’s had anything to do with rail and/or cleanup was there and is there.”

On Thursday, another train from Norfolk Southern Railway, the company operating the train which derailed in Ohio, went off the tracks in southeast Michigan. Perhaps it's time for Norfolk Southern to be investigated so we can all stop making this a political issue.

It's true that the EPA and FEMA arrived on scene as they were expected to do, and it's also true that the town does not meet the definition of "major disaster" under the 1998 Stafford Act, which defines one as any natural catastrophe in the country that causes damage of such severity that the president determines it is beyond the combined capabilities of state and local governments to respond.

The train derailment in East Palestine also did not cause any property damage, which is part of the criteria for FEMA disaster relief.

Although the aftermath of the train derailment “certainly has been a disaster,” Gov. DeWine said Feb. 17, it does not meet this legal definition.

It simply meets the moral standards that would have a nation's leader put our money where his mumbling mouth is.

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