Trump heads to East Palestine before ANY senior White House official to donate water and supplies: Ex-President will visit toxic train derailment site amid fury over Biden administration’s lack of response
Trump heads to East Palestine before ANY senior White House official to donate water and supplies: Ex-President will visit toxic train derailment site amid fury over Biden administration’s lack of response
- READ MORE: Lawyer says East Palestine residents have right to be afraid
- Transportation Secy. Pete Buttigieg confirmed that he will visit East Palestine but offered no timeframe and acknowledged that ‘I could have spoken out sooner’
- Biden made calls from Poland to leaders in Ohio and Pennsylvania on Tuesday
By KATELYN CARALLE, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN EAST PALESTINE, OHIO
PUBLISHED: 08:02 EST, 22 February 2023 | UPDATED: 13:54 EST, 22 February 2023
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Donald Trump is visiting East Palestine, a small Ohio community of 4,700, upended by a toxic train derailment on Wednesday – 19 days after the crash, but still before President Joe Biden or Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
Republicans are reeling that Biden has not visited Ohio for himself, or at least deployed Buttigieg there to survey the damage and speak with local leaders about how the administration can best assist.
Buttigieg, however, assures that he will visit the derailment site – next to the border with Pennsylvania and about 35 minutes from Pittsburgh – claiming he did not want to preemptively visit just for the sake of a photo-op, which he suggested Trump is doing.
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On February 3, a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed and released large amounts of toxic chemicals into the air, water and ground, forcing evacuations as residents feared for their health. Some complained of headaches and other symptoms.
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Former President Donald Trump boarded his campaign plane Wednesday afternoon in Florida to depart for East Palestine, Ohio
