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Florida State Guard Member: Federal Govt. ‘Lying’ About Helene Response

Charlie Kirk Staff

10/04/2024

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Florida State Guard Member: Federal Govt. ‘Lying’ About Helene Response

A Florida State National Guardsman, Jonathan Howard, has shredded the administration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as he accused it of lying about its response to Hurricane Helene.

“I had my team up here working as well. Here’s the problem. I’m going to tell you everything that’s happening from the ground, what I’m actually seeing, because what they’re telling you is complete bullsh*t on the news and these politicians don’t have a f*cking clue and they’re lying. I’ll say this now. I’ll say it at the end of the video. The only thing I need from this video is helicopters,” the Guardsman said.

“If I have helicopters, I can save lives. Without helicopters, I can’t reach these people. It doesn’t matter how many chainsaws and trucks I got, I can’t get to them. They’re 10 miles in, 20 miles, 40 miles in the mountains. There’s no way to get with them or even communicate with them. I am literally flying around in a civilian helicopter looking for SOS messages carved in the mud or painted on the ground and we’re dropping down and saving them,” he said.

“What got me fired up about this was yesterday, me and my team did the rescue of that 11-day-year-old baby and all these government officials and social media, they’re showing that video, that pictures and video of that rescue and claiming that they have some government help with that. Even USA Today wrote an article about it saying it was a Florida National Guard that went and got it with a helicopter. No, it was me, my buddy Charlie, and a civilian named Zeb with his own personal helicopter out of Wilmington, North Carolina,” the Guardsman said.

“Without that civilian, that baby would be dead. And the old lady we went and rescued after that, she’d be dead too because she had one day left of oxygen. No one was going to go get them. I will tell you when we go up in the air, I probably see 40 civilian helicopters. I might see two Blackhawks, National Guard, military, whatever they are. That’s it. No one’s out there doing rescues. I have my entire team up here from Florida right now and they have no ability to go rescue these people other than what they can drive to. And the people that are in dire need, they’re out in the mountains,” he said.

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Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, a national student movement dedicated to empowering young people to promote the principles of free markets and limited government.

Charlie is also the host of “The Charlie Kirk Show” podcast, which regularly ranks among the top-10 news shows on Apple podcast news charts, and is the host of the nationally syndicated daily radio show on the Salem Radio Network live from 12 - 3 PM ET.
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