• @leadore
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    232 months ago

    He did fuck around with Blue states in his first term. For just one example, he withheld federal disaster aid from California after a 2018 wildfire. His aides had to convince him that republicans who supported him were also impacted by the disaster before he would approve the funds:

    “We went as far as looking up how many votes he got in those impacted areas … to show him these are people who voted for you."

      • @leadore
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        92 months ago

        Yep. and halting COVID testing efforts at the beginning when they thought it was mostly going to hit just blue states.