Trump surveys devastation in Western NC (10-21-2024--Hour1)

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[00:00:28] All right, so I'm going to change course here real quick because former President Donald Trump is in Asheville touring the damage. He's doing a press conference and Congressman Chuck Edwards is now speaking.

[00:00:42] ...behind the counter a day or so ago. And it was my honor to present President Trump with the French fry certification pen. Thank you so much for being here.

[00:00:57] Thank you. Chuck Edwards is a franchisee for McDonald's.

[00:01:01] Well, thank you very much. Tim Moore is here, your very special House Speaker. And he's been a great friend of mine for a long time. And thank you very much for... Where are you, Tim?

[00:01:15] Thank you, Mr. President. How much?

[00:01:16] Well, thank you. Well, I'll just say as the Speaker of the State House, I've not gotten a single call from the White House.

[00:01:23] But this man and his team have been in touch with us from day one. And Mr. President, I appreciate that and looking forward to seeing you back in the White House. Thank you, sir.

[00:01:31] Thank you, appreciate it. Great job. And Shane Hilliard, your wonderful sheriff. Appreciate it, huh? Great job. You've been busy, I guess, a little bit, huh? A little bit busier than you're supposed to be.

[00:01:44] Thank you, Sheriff. And a friend of ours, Linda McMahon, who's been incredible. She was in charge of the small business group in Washington and it was actually a big business and she did incredibly.

[00:01:57] They told me the other day you were the best there ever was at that and we appreciate it very much. Great job. Thank you very much, Linda.

[00:02:04] I also want to thank everyone who supported the GoFundMe. We set it up right after the storm left almost immediately.

[00:02:13] And I authorized a lot of people to help. And those affected by Hurricane Helene were badly affected and nothing can really take really make amends for what happened, especially when it came to the death.

[00:02:30] But the property you're going to end up having bigger and better and nicer and everything. But the death was horrendous.

[00:02:37] And to date, we raised eight million dollars of which seven million has been distributed to the various charities that are helping you.

[00:02:45] And the rest is going to go. And if you people have some recommendations, I'd like to have them.

[00:02:50] We helped Franklin Graham. He's done such a great job. And some of the others that have done a great job.

[00:02:57] And if you have recommendations, I'd like to have them because we have more coming and we have more already in the till.

[00:03:04] So we raised eight million dollars, which is great. That's contributions from a lot of great people. OK, but give us give us those recommendations if you would.

[00:03:14] I'd like to take them and do it the way you'd like to do. Right. Thank you very much.

[00:03:18] We've distributed these funds directly to the organizations already. And there's going to be a lot of additional funds coming, I believe today.

[00:03:27] I'm promising the people of this state that when I'm president, if I'm president, I feel better saying that because you never want to take something like that for granted.

[00:03:38] I feel actually a little bit better. They always say, oh, please, please don't say that, sir. Say when we have to vote and they have to get out and vote.

[00:03:47] And we can't have four more years of what we've just had that I can tell you.

[00:03:51] But I will support and totally complete the rebuilding of every region and town and city that was devastated by the hurricane.

[00:04:00] And I will slash through every bureaucratic barrier that you're having already and having problems with right now.

[00:04:07] I understand pretty badly to help you get back on your feet. And I will personally recruit businesses from all over the world to help restore the prosperity to the region.

[00:04:17] They'll be moving in. They're going to be moving in. A lot of businesses, businesses are going to be moving back to our country through the proper use of taxation, incentives and tariffs.

[00:04:27] One of the most beautiful words that nobody understands or very few people understand. He understands it.

[00:04:33] But we're going to be using tariffs and good, proper tech taxation and very importantly, incentives.

[00:04:42] And we're going to have a lot of people moving back to your state and this region. But your state are going to be very interested in North Carolina.

[00:04:50] We'll stop throwing our money overseas and we're going to let our country benefit. We're going to put America first. It's time we put America first.

[00:04:58] We've been helping countries for 50 years. We've been helping them for 50 years, never stops.

[00:05:03] And when we need help from them, they're not there. So that's the way it is.

[00:05:08] But it's vital that we not let this hurricane that has taken so much also take your voice.

[00:05:13] You must get out and vote. The polls are open for early voting every day between now and November 2nd.

[00:05:21] And, you know, the thing that amazes me most is areas such as this and others where there's it's so hard to vote.

[00:05:29] People have lost their homes. They've sometimes lost members of their family.

[00:05:33] Do you know they've set a record in voting? Can you believe it?

[00:05:37] I mean, last year, everything was beautiful, perfect. No problem.

[00:05:42] They beat last year. They beat every record and presidential records, too.

[00:05:47] Your voting records have all been beaten. And people, I don't know, I don't even know where they're living.

[00:05:52] Their house is gone and they were standing in line ready to vote.

[00:05:56] So you have amazing people here, Michael. Really amazing.

[00:06:02] One of them is Michael Watley. He was the head of your Republican Party.

[00:06:06] He was so good and did such a great job. We won the state twice, but he did such a great job.

[00:06:12] I said, that's the guy I want because he was very, very much into stopping the steal.

[00:06:18] We don't want the steal. We want a fair election, an honest election. And you got it here.

[00:06:23] He actually hired 603 lawyers. Can you imagine that? And I said, who's that guy?

[00:06:28] That's the guy I want. And now he heads the whole party, the whole shebang.

[00:06:32] And now I can blame him if something happens. And I'll say, well, I made a mistake.

[00:06:37] I'll send them back. I'll send them back. But I don't think that's going to happen based on what we're hearing from early returns, which are really phenomenal.

[00:06:46] The early returns are phenomenal. If you had to relocate because of the storm, you do not have to return to your home county.

[00:06:55] You can request a ballot for your temporary housing location, but you need to make sure you do it today.

[00:07:01] Today's your last day. So get out and get that done and vote.

[00:07:05] But so far, you've really been I don't have to talk to anybody.

[00:07:09] They're setting literally setting records with this kind of devastation.

[00:07:12] I think it's an amazing tribute. That's an amazing tribute that something like that could happen.

[00:07:18] So to everyone here in North Carolina, we love you. Together we'll pull it through.

[00:07:24] We we bless you and God bless you and God bless America.

[00:07:28] We're going to we're going to make our our nation stronger and better, more beautiful and a more joyful, to use a phrase from somebody else that doesn't really believe it.

[00:07:42] But we're going to make it a more joyful place. We're going to do things that nobody thought were possible.

[00:07:48] We're going to have we're going to have our country back. We're going to grab our country.

[00:07:52] We're going to take it back. We're a nation in decline.

[00:07:54] We're not going to be a nation in decline for much longer that I can tell you, and we're going to make America great again.

[00:08:00] Very simple. It's a very simple slogan. It's the greatest movement in the history of our country.

[00:08:05] We're going to make America great again. I'd like to ask if I might Michael Watley to come up and say a few words.

[00:08:13] He's been working about twenty nine hours a day, I would say, on average.

[00:08:17] Right. He's been working very hard. And please come up and say a few words.

[00:08:23] Thank you, Mr. President. You know, as a son of Western North Carolina,

[00:08:28] I was in Watauga County with Samaritan's Purse recently and got a chance to see the devastation that all of these communities have hit.

[00:08:37] I think it is tremendously important that you are here.

[00:08:41] I think that you and your focus on making sure that Western North Carolina is not going to be forgotten is absolutely critical.

[00:08:50] I am so thankful for the thousands upon thousands of volunteers that have come into Western North Carolina to help these families,

[00:09:01] to help every family here in Western North Carolina.

[00:09:04] You cannot put words on what a value it is. And the fact that this is a strong community, this is a community of faith,

[00:09:14] and this is a community of family. And North Carolina, Western North Carolina, is absolutely going to be back.

[00:09:22] They are going to be stronger than ever. And with your leadership, we will make sure that this part of the state,

[00:09:28] that this part of the country is never forgotten and will be back again. Thank you, Mr. President.

[00:09:35] All right. So that was Michael Wadley, chairman of the RNC.

[00:09:39] Donald Trump is speaking in Asheville, in the Asheville area.

[00:09:44] Not exactly sure where, but he's in the background is just complete devastation.

[00:09:49] You know, piles of debris and rubble all over the place.

[00:09:52] Joining him also, U.S. Senator Ted Budd was there along with some state and local representatives.

[00:10:01] Tim Moffitt, state senator. Warren Daniel, state senator.

[00:10:06] Also Chuck Edwards, you heard him at the very beginning there.

[00:10:09] I believe this is Linda McMahon now speaking.

[00:10:12] So a whole bunch of people out there. And again, he's touring the damage in Asheville.

[00:10:17] And that was just joining that live. Former President Donald Trump just opened up his.

[00:10:24] I guess it's now a press conference or a news conference.

[00:10:28] Let's let's listen in some of the questions.

[00:10:31] Well, we probably can't actually hear any of the questions, but that's weird.

[00:10:37] How about now?

[00:10:38] Legal migrants. Oh, there we go.

[00:10:39] People that came into our country illegally and taking them in and all of the money they've spent.

[00:10:46] Numbers that nobody can even believe. So they don't have any money for the people that live here.

[00:10:51] They got hit by one of the worst storms, possibly the worst storm ever, but one of the worst storms in the history of our country.

[00:10:58] And it's a shame because they should have the money.

[00:11:01] They spent money that I don't believe they're supposed to be spending for that, as you know.

[00:11:06] So I think it's a disgrace what happened with FEMA.

[00:11:09] What's happened with their rescue effort. Their rescue effort was almost non-existent.

[00:11:13] And by the way, I want to thank a man who was really incredible when I came here close to here, but not I couldn't come here because it was not the appropriate thing, as I told you.

[00:11:24] But I got to know a couple of people from North Carolina officials that were terrific, doing a very good job, very much involved.

[00:11:31] And they said, do you know Elon Musk? I said, I happen to know the gentleman. What's your problem?

[00:11:37] Do you think you could get Starlink? I said, what is Starlink? Explain to me that was communication.

[00:11:43] Because, as you know, your communication. I see the polls all ripped down all over.

[00:11:47] You had almost no communication here. And I said, so what do you need?

[00:11:51] He said, we need Starlink and we can't get it. There's nobody that knows anything about how to get it.

[00:11:57] So I called Elon and literally, actually, it's strange before I hung up, they called that man that I spoke to.

[00:12:06] I said, Elon, I just asked you, we're still on the phone. How'd you do that?

[00:12:09] So I don't think he wanted to tell me, but it was pretty amazing. And he got it here really in record time.

[00:12:15] There were some delays that shouldn't have happened on behalf of the federal government, but that was straightened out.

[00:12:21] But he had Starlink here and your communications went from non-existent to probably almost better than what it was before.

[00:12:29] And so I want to thank Elon Musk for having done a great job. He took care of a very important need.

[00:12:35] He probably saved, Ted, probably saved a lot of lives because this was really an emergency.

[00:12:41] And you had it, you had it here like almost instantly. It's very hard to get to.

[00:12:46] It's been pretty popular and very hard to get. Thank you.

[00:12:49] Mr. President, clearly a lot of people here are looking to you in the White House.

[00:12:59] Right.

[00:12:59] I know that you're happy with early results. Are you satisfied with everything this state is during the election wars?

[00:13:07] The question is, is he satisfied with what the state is doing with the election boards?

[00:13:10] Well, I'm not hearing the good things about the governor here like I'm hearing about the governor in Georgia, as an example.

[00:13:16] I'm hearing the governor in Georgia has done a very good job and I don't really know the governor here,

[00:13:21] but I'm not hearing that he's done a very good job. So that's the only thing I can say.

[00:13:25] And certainly you have all heard the same stories that we all hear that FEMA has done a very poor job.

[00:13:31] Our FEMA, when we had a problem, we we did record rescues.

[00:13:37] And we went the job that FEMA did under the Trump administration was really incredible.

[00:13:43] But they had spent, in all fairness to FEMA, they had spent hundreds of millions of dollars doing other things,

[00:13:51] things that I don't think bear any relationship to this money.

[00:13:55] There was they were not supposed to be spending the money on taking in illegal migrants,

[00:14:00] maybe so they could vote in the election, because that's a lot of people are saying that's why they're doing it.

[00:14:04] I don't know. I hope that's not why they're doing it. So they really didn't have any money.

[00:14:08] They don't have very much money. And now they're saying, can we have a special vote?

[00:14:13] Let's have a special session. I'm in favor of that.

[00:14:17] But somebody has to get back to why did they spend hundreds of millions of dollars

[00:14:23] on something that they were not supposed to be spending it on? OK.

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[00:15:33] Let me run through some of the.

[00:15:36] Some of the data points here regarding the recovery efforts in Western North Carolina.

[00:15:42] The other day, Governor Cooper issued an emergency.

[00:15:45] Oh, by the way, the former president, Donald Trump, has concluded his remarks from Asheville.

[00:15:52] He's got other visits that he's making around the state.

[00:15:57] So he has wrapped it up.

[00:16:01] Governor Cooper issued an emergency executive order the other day authorizing the North Carolina Department of Commerce

[00:16:08] Division of Employment Security to increase the amount of weekly unemployment payments available to North Carolinians in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

[00:16:17] As a result of this order, weekly unemployment benefits will increase from a maximum of three hundred fifty dollars a week up to a maximum of six hundred dollars a week.

[00:16:32] Prior to that executive order, a lot of low income and part time workers would have received less than the three fifty weekly maximum.

[00:16:39] So to ensure that these workers get benefits in the wake of the disaster.

[00:16:46] The order also increases benefits by two fifty a week for all eligible workers.

[00:16:54] So you'll recall the unemployment insurance program was broke when Pat McCrory took office.

[00:17:05] The previous administrations had kept the unemployment benefits.

[00:17:12] Level high.

[00:17:14] And we were in debt to the federal government by like two billion dollars.

[00:17:20] And in case you aren't aware, the the businesses of North Carolina actually fund this program, fund that those benefits.

[00:17:29] And so.

[00:17:32] Because we were in debt, the federal government was demanding repayment and everything anyway.

[00:17:36] So the Republican legislature, along with former governor, Pat McCrory, they they balanced that out.

[00:17:43] They paid back the federal debt.

[00:17:44] They balanced it out.

[00:17:46] But they also reduced the unemployment benefits.

[00:17:49] The amount of weekly benefits, because honestly, they were they were high.

[00:17:55] And so people could stay on the unemployment.

[00:18:00] And it acted as a disincentive.

[00:18:03] I could tell you from personal experience in 2011 when I got let go here.

[00:18:11] The unemployment benefits kicked in and it's like, oh, yeah, I can make this work.

[00:18:18] By not working, you know, and all you had to do is dial into some 800 number and say, oh, yeah, I applied for some jobs.

[00:18:26] So they they tightened up the program.

[00:18:29] But obviously now there are no jobs to go back to in these disaster zones.

[00:18:35] So it does make sense in these counties that are affected by the disaster.

[00:18:40] It does make sense that the benefits increase because you can't find another job.

[00:18:45] You can't look for other work.

[00:18:48] Also, 30 more than thirty five hundred soldiers and airmen are working in Western North Carolina, joint task force, North Carolina, led by the North Carolina National Guard made up of soldiers and airmen from 12 different states from Fort Liberty, formerly Fort Bragg.

[00:19:07] There's a unit from Fort Campbell's 101st Airborne Division as well.

[00:19:11] Numerous civilian entities as well.

[00:19:14] The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is helping to assess water and wastewater plants as well as dams.

[00:19:20] And you can actually track their progress on the Army Corps of Engineers website.

[00:19:26] More than one hundred seven million dollars in FEMA individual assistance funds have already been paid so far to disaster survivors.

[00:19:35] And approximately one hundred eighty seven thousand people have registered for individual assistance.

[00:19:42] They've got more than twenty one hundred households that are put up in hotels.

[00:19:49] Under the FEMA Transitional Sheltering Assistance Program.

[00:19:54] There are more than fourteen hundred FEMA staff in the state.

[00:19:59] If you want to apply for individual assistance, you can call 800-621-3362.

[00:20:08] And you can do that between seven a.m. all the way until 11 p.m. every day.

[00:20:13] Or if you can get online and go to the Web site disasterassistance.gov.

[00:20:18] And you can also download the app if you've got Internet service, obviously.

[00:20:23] More than sixteen hundred responders from thirty eight states and local agencies performed one hundred forty five rescue missions or sorry missions supporting the response.

[00:20:34] That includes public health nurses, emergency management teams supporting local governments, veterinarians teams with search dogs and more power outage situation.

[00:20:47] There are now roughly nine thousand customers still without power.

[00:20:52] That is down from the peak of more than one million.

[00:20:56] And NCDOT currently has about two thousand employees and nine hundred pieces of equipment working on about seventy one hundred damaged road sites.

[00:21:09] And I give you those stats because this just to reiterate and to reinforce.

[00:21:16] This is unlike anything we have ever seen.

[00:21:19] I am not aware of another disaster that has been on the scale and size and scope of this.

[00:21:27] It's not only the just the the distance, just the you know, the footprint of the disaster zone.

[00:21:33] It's so large, but also the challenges that come with the topography.

[00:21:38] You're in the mountains and you've got these, you know, mountain roads and such.

[00:21:43] And these little pockets of communities all around the valleys and the mountainside.

[00:21:51] It's it is a unique disaster posing unique challenges.

[00:21:56] So.

[00:21:57] Oh, and I also always mention hearts with hands dot org local organization on the ground in Swannanoa.

[00:22:04] That's where they're based.

[00:22:06] They've been doing great work.

[00:22:07] They're in need of sleeping bags, blankets and coats.

[00:22:10] It's getting cold.

[00:22:11] It already has gotten cold.

[00:22:13] You know, it's below freezing now in the in the evenings.

[00:22:17] People are still sleeping in tents, trying to rebuild their homes and repair their homes during the day.

[00:22:23] So there's still a lot of need and hearts with hands.

[00:22:26] If you go to the website, also, you can volunteer to go help.

[00:22:31] You know, if you can't make a monetary contribution or donation of some supplies, you can go and volunteer, you know, with with your time.

[00:22:40] And they appreciate that to hearts with hands dot org.

[00:22:42] By the way, I was going to start off by saying this, but then, you know, Donald Trump had to come to town and do a press conference anyway.

[00:22:51] But I want to give a shout out and a heartfelt thanks to everybody who donated money to the Alzheimer's Association of Western North Carolina chapter as part of the walk to end Alzheimer's, as well as the folks who came out and walked at Truist Field with me with the team.

[00:23:15] I do have to apologize.

[00:23:18] I did not think to set a meetup place at so I stood on the steps with a handwritten sign like I was picking up somebody from the airport.

[00:23:32] I did manage to get to get a couple people on the way in, but I do apologize for for walkers that that that never found me.

[00:23:43] I'm sorry. Lesson learned.

[00:23:44] I will do better next time.

[00:23:45] I promise that that was totally my bad.

[00:23:49] OK, totally my bad.

[00:23:50] I didn't even think about it until like the last minute.

[00:23:54] I just made a sign.

[00:23:55] And so anyway, I apologize.

[00:23:58] But.

[00:24:00] You know, Jason and Sharon and Russ and Jessica and Debbie that all came out and walked, but also I want to run through all of the the people who helped raise.

[00:24:11] We raised more than six thousand dollars.

[00:24:15] For the Alzheimer's Association of Western Carolina, and that goes for research and it goes for support programs for family members, caregivers, these resources and stuff that I mean, they are.

[00:24:29] They are a blessing for people that are trying to care for loved ones that are suffering with Alzheimer's or dementia.

[00:24:37] So.

[00:24:39] And these are the names that just come to me via the Alzheimer's Association fundraising page.

[00:24:45] So.

[00:24:47] Bolton Services of Western North Carolina.

[00:24:50] Thank you.

[00:24:51] And Burby Properties.

[00:24:53] Mark Burby.

[00:24:54] Thank you very much.

[00:24:56] Chris M.

[00:24:58] Cindy Z.

[00:24:59] I'm just giving the letters for the last names because I don't.

[00:25:04] I'm not trying to cause any problems for people like, oh, dear, you're donating money to the Alzheimer's Association with Pete Callenet.

[00:25:11] Right.

[00:25:11] So.

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[00:26:21] and the Alzheimer's Association

[00:26:23] also appreciates it

[00:26:26] they gave me a special sweatshirt too

[00:26:28] for it

[00:26:30] so

[00:26:31] I mean I think your money was well worth it

[00:26:36] actually Christy got the sweatshirt

[00:26:37] so

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[00:26:44] even though she's not

[00:26:45] the fundraising champion

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[00:26:50] and I don't even

[00:26:51] I don't even want any

[00:26:52] well I should say

[00:26:53] I don't want any more of the swag

[00:26:55] because I didn't have any

[00:26:56] but now I've got

[00:26:57] a couple of the t-shirts

[00:26:58] and so now it's like

[00:26:59] cool now I can feel like

[00:27:00] I'm wearing the purple shirt

[00:27:02] I feel included

[00:27:03] I feel like I'm one of the

[00:27:04] you know

[00:27:05] the walkers and stuff

[00:27:07] but now I don't need any more

[00:27:08] and honestly

[00:27:09] I always felt like

[00:27:10] if anybody had a radio show

[00:27:12] they could

[00:27:12] be doing this

[00:27:13] and raising money too

[00:27:14] so

[00:27:15] like I have way more

[00:27:18] I'm way more impressed

[00:27:19] by the people

[00:27:20] that are able to raise

[00:27:20] way more money

[00:27:22] than I did

[00:27:22] and they don't even have radio shows

[00:27:24] you know

[00:27:25] they're just like

[00:27:25] bosses

[00:27:26] at you know

[00:27:27] some like financial advisor

[00:27:29] firm or something

[00:27:30] and they just

[00:27:30] tell everybody

[00:27:31] they have to donate

[00:27:32] or they get fired

[00:27:32] so

[00:27:33] no I'm kidding

[00:27:34] they don't do that

[00:27:35] but thank you very much

[00:27:36] I do appreciate it

[00:27:37] all right

[00:27:37] that'll do it

[00:27:38] for this episode

[00:27:39] thank you so much

[00:27:40] for listening

[00:27:40] I could not do the show

[00:27:41] without your support

[00:27:42] and the support

[00:27:43] of the businesses

[00:27:44] that advertise

[00:27:44] on the podcast

[00:27:45] so if you'd like

[00:27:46] please support them too

[00:27:47] and tell them

[00:27:48] you heard it here

[00:27:48] you can also become

[00:27:49] a patron

[00:27:50] at my Patreon page

[00:27:51] or go to

[00:27:53] thepeatcalendershow.com

[00:27:54] again

[00:27:54] thank you so much

[00:27:55] for listening

[00:27:55] and don't break anything

[00:27:57] while I'm gone