The Texas flooding blame recreation: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: The trigger of flash-flooding fatalities in Texas, with many on the left blaming President Trump.
Democrats have change into the scum of the earth (“Deranged Demonizers,” Editorial, July 8).
Sen. Chuck Schumer and cohorts are blaming President Trump for the Texas flooding.
They have no decency, and will all be faraway from workplace.
Bill Tavernier
Deltona, Fla.
In the aftermath of this positively horrible tragedy and the loss of many lives, do I’ve to listen to our authorities clowns politicize such an terrible occasion?
A time like that is for Americans to tug collectively — not go into the political spin recreation of blaming Trump.
Many people are grieving, and so they shouldn’t have to listen to a bunch of nonsensical idiots play the blame recreation.
At the tip of the day, it’s a climate occasion which occurs all of the time.
Lou Bivona
Belleville, NJ
Oh boy: The Democrats actually hit the ground blaming President Trump for the floods in Texas.
They ought to thank the almighty it wasn’t one of their youngsters. How low has this occasion gone?
No surprise people are altering their affiliation and going Republican.
Mo Colarusso
Manhattan
While a sturdy warning system is undoubtedly essential, it’s important to additionally contemplate the historic context (“Critics try to blame Trump for weather,” Rich Lowry, July 8).
As Lowry highlights, the Guadalupe River has a long historical past of flooding, with hurricane remnants contributing to rainfall exceeding 15 inches on 19 events since 1913.
Given this historical past, one should ask: Why would anybody select to construct youngsters’s camp cabins alongside the banks of a river in an space often known as “flash-flood alley?”
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Steve Murphy
Parsippany, NJ
How long is Trump going to blame each one of his failures on former President Joe Biden?
Despite the truth that excessive climate — comparable to long drought and ensuing flash floods — are resulting from climate change and the deep cuts to the National Weather Service and FEMA are placing our residents at risk, our Teflon Don regularly refuses to man up to his obligations.
Carol Puttre-Czyz
Manhattan
The finger-pointing and hysteria following the horrific flooding in central Texas is deplorable and disgusting.
As it seems now, all the required steps have been taken to warn people as far prematurely as doable.
Could some issues have been finished in a different way?
Maybe — however hindsight is at all times 20/20.
This tragedy appears to be the end result of unprecedented circumstances that no one foresaw, leaving virtually no time to react.
Looking for people to blame is a waste of time and power and is doing no one any good.
Peter Kelly
Hazlet, NJ
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The tragic deaths of the Camp Mystic youngsters are heartbreaking and a few of the youngsters are nonetheless lacking and presumed lifeless.
Parents haven’t even had time to mourn their loss and bury their youngsters.
Yet some stone-hearted left-wing zealots made political hay out of this unhappy event by blaming Trump for the tragedy.
Do these people have any disgrace?
Joseph Valente
Staten Island
I can’t even think about how horrible the grief have to be for individuals who misplaced members of the family within the devastating flood in Kerr County, Texas.
It have to be even worse to know that if President Trump hadn’t fired meteorologists and climate forecasters in an effort to give tax cuts to billionaires, their family members might need been higher forewarned and their deaths prevented.
Sharon Austry
Fort Worth, Texas
The lethal Camp Mystic tragedy in Texas questions our lack of public-safety alerts in all publicly occupied areas all through our nation.
Now is the time for a national review of all our early-warning safety-alert systems.
Our lives could also be at risk when touring to new locations that shouldn’t have an early-warning system in place.
Bob Sweeney
Warwick, RI
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