Texas News Anchor Rips Kristi Noem And Greg Abbott Over Flood Press Conference [View all]
San Antonio anchor Stephania Jimenez fumed Saturday over a press conference that featured Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott thanking each other and President Donald Trump instead of giving immediate updates on the lethal floods in central Texas.
Other officials did the same and gushed over the emergency response, delaying pertinent details by nearly a half-hour, she said. (Watch the video below.)
“What I was struck by is that we really didn’t get any concrete information until 27 minutes into that news conference where you had the governor speak, you had Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speak for a while,” KSAT’s Jimenez said. “But you know what people are wanting is information.”
″... I don’t know what it is about people who run for federal office that whenever disasters like this happen, they take it upon themselves to first list all the names of people they want to thank. Um, not what we want to hear right now.”
Noem and the other officials did not take questions until 26 minutes and 30 seconds into the presser, after Abbott performatively showed himself signing a disaster-aid request for Trump, declaring the president’s love for Texas, expressing gratitude to Trump and asking for prayers multiple times.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stephania-jimenez-kristi-noem-gregg-abbott-flood-press-conference_n_686bb8e6e4b0762f74e180fb
Jimenez? With a name like that, she'll be next on ICE's most wanted list.
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