What do you call it when a “conspiracy theory” turns out to be true? This happens so often lately that we’re losing count.
The New York Times fact-checked President-Elect Trump when he claimed that FEMA was deliberately withholding aid from Republican voters in the recovery efforts after Hurricane Helene. The paper reported that “there is no evidence that the Biden administration was purposefully ignoring the needs of Republican areas.”
Did they even look for evidence? If they had, they would have found exactly that. There is evidence of text messages and internal messaging software telling FEMA employees to “skip Florida homes with Trump campaign signs” and “Trump signs, no contact per leadership.”
That is deplorable targeting of American citizens for their politics. The House of Representatives Oversight Committee launched an investigation into this and has called for FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell to testify before the House on November 19.
The New York Times has not corrected this so-called “fact check.” You would think that these kinds of things would harm their reputation as “fact checkers,” huh?
Maybe instead of “conspiracies,” we should call them “factspiracies.” I didn’t come up with that myself. This X user did.
