Trump lets Helene victims tell their stories (01-24-2025--Hour3)

[00:00:04] What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon to 3 on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you want exclusive content, like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, go to thepetekalinarshow.com. Make sure you hit the subscribe button, get every episode for free, write to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for your support. Here's a tweet from Gunther Eagleman. I don't think that's his real name, but it could be.

[00:00:34] Um, Gunther says, nothing and I mean nothing makes me happier than seeing a president intently listening to the American people who have lost everything. And this is the this is a really good example of what the media and Democrats, but I repeat myself, what they miss about.

[00:00:58] Trump, right? They have this idea in their head that he's only about himself. And don't get me wrong. The guy's got a massive ego. Absolutely. Nobody that becomes president doesn't have an ego. Okay. You have to, to think, right? Who looks at that job and says, I could totally do that. Right. You have to have a level of self-confidence in yourself. Right. That probably is informed somewhat by the ego.

[00:01:28] So it takes a certain kind of personality to even go for these types of jobs. So, yes, he does talk about himself and he does inflate and he markets and brands and all of that. Absolutely fine. But what they miss is that he is perfectly comfortable talking with, quote unquote, regular people. And even I mean, I could recognize this.

[00:01:55] It's when he first started running and I wasn't in support of Donald Trump. Back in 2015, but you read the stories and the people that work for him right in his hotels and stuff, he, you know, he walks through the halls and he's a rock star. People love him. He talks to them like they're regular people.

[00:02:18] People. Because they are. And he is like they're just people like he doesn't like this is why he resonates with the, quote, working people is because he treats them as his equal. And at a personal level. And that's one of those things that I think everybody that gets into these positions, they have this thing about them, you know, this charisma.

[00:02:44] They they they they walk into the room and everybody knows that they have, you know. And so when he's sitting there and he's he's giving. He's turning over the microphone to all of these people to tell their stories and he's not judging them. He's not mocking them. He's not minimizing it. He's asking them, like, did you think you were going to die? Like, do you think that was it?

[00:03:07] Like, that's a perfectly natural question to ask if anybody is telling you the story of how they had to climb out a window on a makeshift ladder to get to their roof during a flood. As they watch bodies floating down the mountainside around them, he connects with people like that. And so he does this tour. He goes to Western North Carolina. He's on his way out to Los Angeles afterwards.

[00:03:35] He's he gets up there to do this press availability. He speaks for, you know, he reads his he's got prepared comments there. He's got a binder. So he wasn't using a teleprompter, but he's got a binder not full of women. He's not Mitt Romney here, people. So he's got a binder and he's got like his comments there and it's cold. And so you can see that, you know, he's trying to turn the pages and stuff like that. But he spoke for maybe 10 minutes, if that. Franklin Graham spoke and then.

[00:04:04] Trump gets up, he speaks and then he stands off to the side and he just lets all of these people come up and tell their stories. And he's asking them questions like, oh, what was the name? Like, what's your insurance company's name? And lets the guy call out the North Carolina Farm Bureau by name at a national press conference with the president. Do you think that what do you think the pucker factor is over there at the Farm Bureau today?

[00:04:29] Do you think do you think they may be feeling a little uneasy at this point when the guy tells a story about how the first adjuster came in and said, oh, yeah, you know, you should get all of this monetary damage or you should get a check that's like this big, $200,000, whatever it may be. You should get this big of a check. And then they fire him and bring in somebody else to lowball the homeowner.

[00:04:56] Do you think that's a positive story for the Farm Bureau? No. Trump doesn't care. Call him out. Literally asks the guy to name the insurance company. That's jerking them around. And then he starts asking everybody around, like, same thing with you guys, same insurance, different insurance company. Oh, different companies. He's paying attention. He's listening. He's not checking his watch, if you know what I mean.

[00:05:26] So here's another lady that he calls up, lets her speak to the mic. And I would also point this out. It's a little thing. It's a little thing. But I think it is indicative of something larger, which is every person that came to the podium. And they go to speak. He adjusts the microphone for them. It's on this big gooseneck microphone stand. So it's pretty tall. But you can move it and form it to the shape that you need it and the height that you need it.

[00:05:54] And every single time, he's the one that reaches over and sets the microphone for them. He is media savvy. He knows they need to be on the mic. These people are not media savvy. They're just regular folks. It's intimidating. You're standing next to the president, right? You've got probably 40 media people in front of you snapping pictures and rolling tape and writing down your words. It's intimidating. And so they walk up and they're just like, OK, yeah. And they just start talking and they don't go for the microphone first.

[00:06:24] So he adjusts their microphone. He does it for them. And I just think that that is it's a little thing. But I think it illustrates a larger point. I'm a pastor. There he is again. Church right down the road. We had only purchased in May. And it's a big church. We're a small congregation. And I had people say, what are you going to do with this big building? And I said, only God knows. And we had our dedication.

[00:06:54] And the storm came the next week. And the outpouring of people. My son brought the first load of supplies. And from there, I stayed there for about three months. I slept on the floor for about three weeks because the need was so great. The people were so devastated. And I said, I want to be here for them. And they were coming in just day and night. So there's really no need for me to go home.

[00:07:23] But we had people from Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, Indiana, Oklahoma. People from all over. We have not received any help like from the government or anything. But I said, Lord, if you want us to do that. People. So they came from all over? All over the states. But FEMA did nothing. No. It was the locals. Wasted time and money. The locals and the people that knew us.

[00:07:50] Listen, before the week was over, our church was so packed with supplies, we couldn't even walk. Even in our sanctuary, it was up to the platform of things and in our halls and in our rooms. And we're just now beginning to get a little straightened out. But somebody said, how long are you going to be here? I said, I'm going to be here through the winter and even on if possible.

[00:08:15] Because when you meet people that's been through the struggle, I had a little lady come up and I said, can we do anything special for you? And she said, I don't want to be selfish, but so could I have a cup of coffee? And I handed her that coffee and she stood there and tears just poured. And she said, you don't realize how important that the little things.

[00:08:41] It's not the big things in life that we have, but it's the little things and knowing that God is our source. I don't look to man. I don't have to have a lot of things. I had trees, about 20 trees down in my yard, but that didn't really matter. It doesn't matter because the needs of the people is what I want to be there for. God is good. He's very good.

[00:09:09] And my daughter, now her house is really in bad shape. And I'll let her tell you about that. But thank you, President. This is our president. We appreciate you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for the work you do. I live out in the Fairview area of North Carolina near the Batcave Lake Lure area. And our area was hit really hard. I was home alone.

[00:09:37] And my husband had stayed in town because we take care of a little lady that's 98 years old. And she lives out in the woods by herself. And I said, just stay with her and make sure that she's okay. And I got up the next morning. And my first thought was, I want to go see what our road and bridge looks like. So as I was making it down to the road and the bridge, there was no road and bridge. And so here we are. We're like a little island. We can't access the main road or anything.

[00:10:06] And then the fire department came by the next day and said that they were evacuating me and my neighbor because a landslide was going to come. And they told me to get my stuff and get ready. And so while I was getting my stuff and getting ready, there was a knock at the door. So I thought it was the fireman. And I went to the door and there stood my 21-year-old son. His name's Nathan. And he had drove as far as he could to get to me. But he hiked five miles.

[00:10:36] And it took him a really long time. And he got there and he said, Mom, grab a bag. We've got to go. And I said, son, there's no way. I can hike out of here. And he was like, no. He said, we've got to go. So we started hiking out. And I seen one of my neighbors who she had no clothes on. Her skin was like chunked up. It was just she was blue.

[00:11:03] She had been in the waters and where she had went or I don't know. But horrific is just all I can say. But then as me and my son hiked on out, we went through where this place, we call it Craigtown. But there were like a lot of family members there that passed away, like 11 of them. And there were people out everywhere looking for their loved ones. And there were dead bodies, you know.

[00:11:31] My son's like, Mom, you're going to see things you don't want to see. And so anyway, we got through all that. But I stayed at our church in our sound booth. Both my husband and I, we just slept up in the sound booth for a couple of months because we didn't have power or anything for about two months out there. And then we have went back. I've been fighting with FEMA since day one. Our community, there's like 32 homes. We don't have a road and a bridge.

[00:12:00] We're driving through our neighbor's property. You know, I went to EMS. And I said, look, my concern is if we have a fire or we have an emergency out here, you're not going to get to us. You can't get those big trucks up here. And I've called and called and called FEMA. And, you know, I said, it's this happened on September 27th. That's four months ago. Well, for us, today is still September 27th. You know, we haven't had help.

[00:12:30] And so when I talked to FEMA, I'm explaining the road and the bridge. And they send me a letter that tells me to basically fix it and send in my receipts. And they'll refund me some money. I'm looking at a road and bridge that, honestly, the bridge itself is probably going to be $300,000. And the road could be close to that also because we have to have the community has to have big boulders brought in. We're not a rich community. We can't fix it ourselves.

[00:12:57] You know, it's just and as far as like house repairs, I'm still pending. I can't get money from FEMA until I fix the road and bridge and send in my proof that it's fixed and everything. It's just, it's been a nightmare. And I totally feel like that we have been forgotten. If it had not been for our fellow American citizens who stepped up to help us, I don't know what we would have done.

[00:13:24] I have five neighbors around me who completely lost everything. You know, I have damage to my house and I feel, I don't feel entitled. I'm embarrassed to even say I need help because, you know, and sometimes there's even that survivor's guilt is what they're calling it. But you feel guilty to even be alive sometimes. You know, when you look around, you see your neighbors that are gone. And it's just, you know, we need help.

[00:13:54] I wrote a letter to send to Congress. You know, I don't understand what's going on. If we can't get FEMA help, then will you guys help us? Will you step up and be our fellow citizen? Will you step up and be our neighbor and send us something? Help us, help us get our community back. It's, I could go on. It's just a, I don't know, it's just heartbreaking. I appreciate you.

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[00:16:04] And yes, South Carolina. I haven't forgotten about y'all either. This is of local importance. And so that's why we're doing it. And so, like, I got a tweet here. Thank you, Pete, for bringing us the comments from the president and those who told their stories. Also, thank you for pointing out the dumbassery of those who obviously do not comprehend what he was saying. No need to thank me for doing what I enjoy doing.

[00:16:32] Both, you know, bringing this to you, but also pointing out the dumbassery of people. Because, like, there's now this narrative that the president is suggesting we abandon our friends and neighbors in Western North Carolina. This is now, this is what the left got out of this press availability, this appearance, is that somehow the president is advocating that we forget. Even though he literally said, you are not forgotten any longer.

[00:17:01] He literally said that. But to the left, when they hear him talk about dismantling FEMA, saying that there, he, he said off the, off mic, he turned to one of the families and he was like, they're a waste of time and money. And so a leftist hears that and they think, oh my gosh, he wants to get rid of a government program that's helping. So that means he wants to hurt people and he wants to ignore the problems.

[00:17:31] I don't even understand the, the, the mental disconnect that must occur in, in your brain. To hear somebody literally say, you are no longer forgotten and think that that means we should forget you. It's literally the opposite. That's it. And so I pointed that out. And so that's what I was being thanked for.

[00:17:58] Melissa says, Trump has never announced a listening tour. And I think that's true. I don't think I've ever heard him say he's going to do a listening tour. And Melissa says, it's because he's always listening. No need to make a dog and pony show. Right. Well, um, and then app Patriot girl says, uh, Trump letting the people of Western North Carolina tell their stories of loss is just heart wrenching.

[00:18:26] But the best possible thing that he could do, he's listening to these people. He wants to help them. Please share any video of this. You see, I guarantee you CNN will not play any of this footage. Uh, thank you, Pete, for playing the audio. Um, so we've been, as I mentioned earlier, when this news conference was occurring live, C-SPAN was carrying it. That's where I'm playing it from. Fox News carried it live.

[00:18:53] Um, I don't expect them to preempt, uh, like the price is right, uh, on the networks and stuff. So I, I don't really expect them to cover every news conference, uh, you know, for the local affiliates and such. But CNN, CNN did not cover it live. CNN covered live going behind the scenes at the DC zoo with the giant pandas. So they apparently got an exclusive look at the giant pandas at the DC zoo.

[00:19:24] And that was what they ran instead, followed up by a story about the mass deportations. And oh my gosh, we're deporting illegal aliens that are criminals. Um, and then I think they showed a clip, uh, of, uh, JD Vance at the March for Life, which kudos to CNN. I think it's the first time they've actually covered the March for Life. Um, I used to document this every year I would go through and, and do a, and, you know, run through, see who covered the March for Life.

[00:19:53] Uh, and I want to say, I started doing it in like 2012, I think. And it wasn't until the very end of, uh, I want to say, yeah, uh, Trump's presidency that you started to see some coverage at the national level. They just ignored it for years. So they covered JD Vance, uh, a clip of JD Vance or just a shot of him speaking.

[00:20:17] And if I had to guess, cause I couldn't hear the audio, but if I had to guess, I would say it was probably somewhere along the lines of, they're coming for your abortion acts. Sorry. They're coming for your reproductive freedom. So I'm assuming that's what that was, but no, they did not cover the Western North Carolina press conference. All right. I hope you had a happy holiday season, but tell me if something like this happened at your house, your family and friends are gathered around. Maybe y'all are in the living room. You're laughing, swapping stories, reminiscing.

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[00:21:41] CNN is reporting that Trump has arrived in the fire damaged areas of Los Angeles. I'll keep you posted. Here was earlier. That's pretty quick, though, because it was only like an hour ago. They made it in an hour. It's pretty impressive. From Western North Carolina to L.A., Trump was in Swannanoa, North Carolina, did a press conference. And, you know, he opened it up. Franklin Graham actually opened it up. He made some comments. Trump came on. He made some comments for about 10 minutes.

[00:22:10] And then basically for the last, like, 30 minutes, 20, yeah, 20 minutes or so, he's been letting these local families tell their stories of not just, you know, what happened on that day, September 27th. One of the women, I think, said it very well when she said the storm hit on September 27th. But for us, it's still September 27th. Nothing has changed for them.

[00:22:37] Four months later, and they're still dealing with this. So we've heard from these families, and I believe at this point now, Trump is going to go back to the podium. My son is great. Yeah. He sounds like a real leader. He really is. To hike in. How would you have been if he didn't come and get you? I don't know. I just would have been there until, because the only thing we could do, there were no way to get out there.

[00:23:04] The only thing we could do is just to hike up to the church, the first church that was up there, about three miles, just to get, you know, maybe what we needed or something. I don't know. He is. Thank you. Again, thank you very much, everybody. So we're going to be here. We're going to be working with our congressmen and women, and they're going to do a job. And Michael Watley is going to be very much in charge. And you'll get it done.

[00:23:33] And FEMA is ready to rock. They haven't done the job because they weren't really told to do the job by Biden. I guess Biden was thinking about other things, wasn't he? But they weren't told what they did, what the past administration did to North Carolina is a disgrace. So I just want to wish you all well. I was here right after the event, and I couldn't believe it. I have never seen anything like it. I've seen a lot of bad things, but I've never seen anything like it.

[00:24:02] And it's an honor to meet the people behind me, and it's an honor to be with our congressional delegation and some of the other politicians in the area. And it's an honor to have Michael Watley at my side because maybe we wouldn't be standing here as president if he wasn't. Him and Laura, Laura Trump, were unbelievable as the head of the Republican Party. So he happens to come from a place called North Carolina. So I said, Michael, fix it. So good luck.

[00:24:32] Good luck. And we'll supply what you need. You know that. Okay? Thank you. Thank you all very much. Thank you very much. All right. Oh, he's going to take questions. Thank you. There's been so many local groups. Yeah. Stepped up to a state. Yeah. That's one of the things you hear. Any talk on having money instead of going to FEMA and go through the bureaucracy to go to them? That's what I want to do.

[00:24:56] We want to bring it locally so that a state takes care of its problem, and then they can bring it down to a local level, like Samaritan's Purse and Franklin, because that's one of the better examples. But you had numbers of people that did a great job. You have groups that did a great job and organizations. The one that didn't do a good job was the government. They did a bad job. They did, in many ways, they did no job. They weren't even available. So, good question.

[00:25:25] The answer is we go local. I think it'll work much better. FEMA is a very expensive organization that really doesn't work out very well. It hasn't. This is not the only example. So, it was up to me right now. It ended right now. And I just let the state take care of the problem. I mean, you can always have problems. Let the state, if it's Florida, it's a hurricane, let Florida take care of it. They don't need FEMA to come in. That's the comment that's got the left and the media, but I repeat myself, all in a tizzy,

[00:25:55] is that let the states take care of the problem. But what did he say just before that? This is the same thing with the good people on both sides all over again. You listen to the context. The guy is asking a question about, you know, the ineffectiveness of FEMA and the federal government. Why not just push the money to the local groups? And he says, I agree. What are they talking about? To get all policy wonkish on you? Block grants. That's what they're talking about.

[00:26:22] Just send the money in the form of grants down to the states and let the states handle this. Because the government that's closest to the people is the government that is the most responsive to the needs of those people because it's closer. Like, this is the fundamental building block upon which the country is made. And to people who look to D.C. to do all of these things for them,

[00:26:50] like, there's so much waste in sending money up the, you know, through, you know, taking the money from people in the paychecks, administering this, right, the taxation, putting it into the federal coffers, having all of that debated. Where does it go? Where do we spend it? And then filtering it out and having to decide, like, where does the money go for this work and for that work and whatever. Rather than creating this entire agency and all this bureaucracy,

[00:27:18] you already have the state administrative units, essentially. Why not just send it down to them? Send it to the locals in the form of block grants. Here's a chunk of money for disaster relief. Administer the block grant. Give us the receipts. Right? It's cleaner. Less inefficiencies. Less waste. Less administration. So more of the dollar goes to, for example, you donate money to charity.

[00:27:47] One of the first things anybody ever asks me from money, I always ask them, how much of every dollar that I donate goes to administrative overhead? Because that covers not just your, you know, your staff. And I understand you got to have staff. But fundraisers and that kind of thing, the mailers, printing up all the calendars that you're sending me that I don't ask for. Like all of that stuff, all the notepads and pens and stuff. The worst is when somebody sends me money.

[00:28:16] Like, here's a nickel. But send it back to me. Like, okay, if you're sending me money, then I'm not. But, like, at first I felt guilty. Like, oh, I should give this nickel back. And I guess that's why they do it. They're trying. It's some sort of psychological operation on me or something. How much of every dollar that I give you is going to go to more stuff like that? And you should, they should know that number.

[00:28:43] And if the number is anything more than about 15 cents on the dollar, probably not a great organization because they got too much administrative bloat. Right? You want as much money that you donate to go directly to the cause. So that's the quote that apparently people are running with and saying he wants states to be left on their own. He doesn't want us to help our fellow Americans. And that is just dumbassery. All right.

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[00:30:08] Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports Ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. Just a couple more minutes here. I have no idea how much longer this presidential news conference lasts, but I think it's wrapping up. Trump has made his comments. He's getting ready to leave. But as he always does, people ask him questions. He's going to answer the questions. Yeah. Yeah. I envision a very important role for him.

[00:30:38] It's any role he wants. He's a very capable guy. Michael Watley, a very capable guy. And he's friends and works with these guys, keeps them elected. Right. They have to do a good job. Otherwise, no matter how good Michael is, not going to work. But they've done an amazing job. They've been great. You're lucky you have great congressmen here and a woman, by the way, a great woman, very powerful woman. And they're going to do a great job. They'll do it together.

[00:31:06] They'll work together and we'll supply what they need as they need it. We'll coordinate that. And we will immediately get the Army Corps, Michael, because you need roads built. You know, we're talking about the bridge. We're talking about roads and things. So we got to get a belt. All right. Okay. Thank you all very much. Thank you. All right. So that's it. So he's done. So he did take two questions. By the way, I just just thought of this as I was. You know, Trump obviously likes Michael Watley.

[00:31:35] He talks about him all the time. Anytime he's in North Carolina doing something, he's like, oh, he's name dropping. Michael Watley gave him a whole bunch of credit there. And he's like, you're going to be in charge of all this. But Michael Watley is the RNC chair, head of the Republican committee. So or the party. So what's the problem? Ronna McDaniel all that time? Is that what happened? I guess you notice as soon as she got ousted.

[00:32:05] Like Republicans won a bunch of these races. I'm just. I don't know. I just thought of it. I'm just kind of curious. Is that maybe there was some connection there? I don't know. Um, let's see here. What else we got? Oh, the North Carolina legislature, the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations Subcommittee on Hurricane Response and Recovery is going to be meeting next Thursday, 9 a.m. They're going to hear from the Stein administration about its Hurricane Helene recovery efforts,

[00:32:35] including how Governor Stein's newly elected or newly created rather Governor's Recovery Office for Western North Carolina or GROWNC. Or as I like to call it, GROWNC. Well, they call it that too. How that's going to operate. The subcommittee also anticipates hearing updates from NCOR, which is the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency. And apparently the only resiliency is this agency's ability to survive, even though it doesn't actually do much.

[00:33:04] Um, and, uh, what, like what's the deal with its current financial situation following the revelation late last year that it would run out of money before finishing its work in eastern North Carolina? And you may be thinking, eastern North Carolina? What happened in eastern North Carolina? Well, nothing recently, but about eight years ago, Hurricane Matthew hit.

[00:33:30] And then a couple years, like a year or two after that, Hurricane Florence hit. And they're still trying to rebuild that. Eight years later, because that was run through then Governor Roy Cooper's office with this NCORP. or as they call it, rebuild NC. Spoiler, no, they didn't. Um, and we knew there were problems very early on when South Carolina had actually managed to

[00:33:59] get all of its people back into their homes within like two or three years. And we hadn't put a single person back in any of their homes in North Carolina at by the same time. So that was the first indication, at least to me, that something was wrong, that we were not doing something correctly. Exactly. So that'll be next week on Thursday. And I believe they're going to do back to back meetings, hearings on both of those separate issues.

[00:34:28] So, again, I will take the label. Oh, also, Trump put out a memo saying that the Lumbee tribe should get federal recognition. So had that happen, too. All right. That'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast. So if you'd like, please support them, too, and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecalendershow.com. Again, thank you so much for listening. And don't break anything while I'm gone. Bye.