Twice on Friday, CNN turned to in-house fact-check and Canadian Daniel Dale to spin spoil for FEMA and lambast President Donald Trump targeting the response of the agency to last fall’s aftermath of Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina and this month’s wildfires in southern California.
Dale first popped up in the morning for Pamela Brown’s edition of CNN Newsroom. Brown — the daughter of a late former Kentucky Democrat governor — boasted she had been texting with one of California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom’s aides as Trump laid waste to how Newsom and other California Democrats have handled the fires.
Dale only offered an esoteric allusion to “a whole host of errors” by California officials “in preparing and responding to these wildfires” and insisted he wasn’t there “to absolve them.”
However, Dale would do just that…
