It’s not as if U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise, the House majority leader, had been fooled into spouting false information .
The truth is readily available.
The lies have been exposed publicly many times and had been debunked online, in print and during numerous broadcasts.
Still, when Scalise came to Phoenix to promote Donald Trump and Republican candidates, he said, “FEMA, among a whole bunch of other federal agencies, has been using your tax dollars that are supposed to help you as American citizens. They use that money helping illegals here that they brought into America.”
No. The agency did not.
Lies about FEMA could get people killed
A cursory check of the internet would have found any number of fact checkers proving that allegation to be false .
And that’s not the only misinformation about federal relief for storm-ravaged communities that is being used for perverse political purposes by MAGA politicians subservient to Trump.
Communities like Phoenix, all over America, are being hit by a hurricane of lies concerning FEMA .