{"id":19856,"date":"2025-07-08T22:51:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T22:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/?p=19856"},"modified":"2025-07-08T22:51:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T22:51:40","slug":"white-house-condems-depraved-lie-about-donald-trump-texas-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/?p=19856","title":{"rendered":"White House condems \u201cdepraved lie\u201d about Donald Trump &#038; Texas floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The death toll after the horrifying flash floods in Texas has risen to over 100. What really happened and why people weren\u2019t notified will be investigated.<\/strong><\/p><div class=\"yiucl69f59c2f28973\" ><div style=\"width:100%; max-width:1200px; margin:0 auto;\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/bolt-casino.com?r=0BFDBF1283\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n    <img \n      src=\"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f8693ebb-2018-480f-a2f7-0096810c07f0.jpg\" \n      alt=\"200% Deposit Bonus + 10% Cashback\" \n      style=\"width:100%; height:auto; display:block; border-radius:8px; cursor:pointer;\"\n    \/>\n  <\/a>\n<\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 1201px) {\r\n.yiucl69f59c2f28973 {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 993px) and (max-width: 1200px) {\r\n.yiucl69f59c2f28973 {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 769px) and (max-width: 992px) {\r\n.yiucl69f59c2f28973 {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 768px) {\r\n.yiucl69f59c2f28973 {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {\r\n.yiucl69f59c2f28973 {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n<\/style>\r\n\n<p>But as of now, President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.newsner.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald<\/a>\u00a0Trump has come under fire from Texas officials for being a part of the tragedy, as 600 people from the National Weather Service were laid off or retired earlier this year. Now, the White House has responded to what they call a \u201cdepraved lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The horrifying flash flood in Texas has now claimed more than 100 lives. At least 104 people are dead, and many are still missing after the flooding hit the Texas Hill Country. Rescues are taking place all along the Guadalupe River, which rose 26 feet within\u00a045 minutes on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The citizens include 27 children and counselors from the Christian girls\u2019 camp, Camp Mystic. On Monday morning, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said 10 campers and one counselor are still unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hearts are broken alongside our families that are enduring this unimaginable tragedy. We are praying for them constantly,\u201d the camp wrote in a statement on their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.campmystic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">website<\/a>, adding that they are in contact with local authorities, continuing the search for \u201cmissing girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ask for your continued prayers, respect, and privacy for each of our families affected. May the Lord continue to wrap His presence around all of us,\u201d the statement ended.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-texas-officials-blame-donald-trump-for-texas-floods\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Texas officials \u2018blame Donald Trump\u2019 for Texas floods<\/h2>\n<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott described the devastation at Camp Mystic as \u201cnothing short of horrific.\u201d He visited the site over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt, and the river running beside it, were horrendously ravaged in ways unlike I\u2019ve seen in any natural disaster,\u201d Abbott wrote on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GregAbbott_TX\/status\/1941696145438175724\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">X<\/a>. \u201cThe height the rushing water reached to the top of cabins was shocking. We won\u2019t stop until we find every girl who was in those cabins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although the Guadalupe River turned into a deadly flash flood within an hour, questions are being raised about whether lives could have been saved. According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/05\/us\/politics\/texas-floods-warnings-vacancies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The New York Times<\/a>, Texas officials have claimed that the National Weather Service\u2019s (NWS) failure to issue sufficient warnings to emergency services about the rainfall could have been a factor in why people didn\u2019t receive the warning in time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrucial\u201d positions at the local NWS offices were not filled due to the cost-cutting methods used earlier this year by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and Donald Trump gets the blame. The New York Times further reported that local officials had avoided installing more advanced warning systems due to the high costs associated with them.<\/p>\n<p>In a brief interview at a New Jersey airport, Donald Trump was asked whether he would investigate whether cuts to the federal government left vacancies at the National Weather Service or in emergency coordination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t. I\u2019ll tell you, if you look at that, what a situation that all is \u2013 that was really the Biden setup, that was not our setup. But I wouldn\u2019t blame Biden for it either. I would just say this is a 100-year catastrophe and it\u2019s just so horrible to watch,\u201d Donald Trump said.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-karoline-leavitt-says-blaming-trump-for-texas-floods-is-depraved-lie\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Karoline Leavitt says blaming Trump for Texas floods is \u201cdepraved lie\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>The White House has now responded to claims about blaming Donald Trump. White House Press Secretary\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.newsner.com\/tag\/karoline-leavitt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Karoline Leavitt<\/a>\u00a0said, \u201cBlaming President Trump for these floods is a depraved lie and it serves no purpose in the time of national mourning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cThat [the floods] was an act of God. It\u2019s not the administration\u2019s fault that the flood hit when it did, but there were early and consistent warnings and, again, the National Weather Service did its job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, President Donald Trump signed a major disaster declaration for Kerr County. He told reporters on Monday that he plans to visit Texas on Friday, although it\u2019s unclear at this point where exactly he will go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was a terrible event, terrible event,\u201d Trump said. \u201cTexas was just absolutely, so badly hurt by something that was a big surprise late in the evening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected by the devastating Texas floods.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll after the horrifying flash floods in Texas has risen to over 100. What really happened and why people weren\u2019t notified will be investigated. But as of now, President\u00a0Donald\u00a0Trump has come under fire from Texas officials for being a part of the tragedy, as 600 people from the National Weather Service were laid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>White House condems \u201cdepraved lie\u201d about Donald Trump &amp; Texas floods - VM News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/?p=19856\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"White House condems \u201cdepraved lie\u201d about Donald Trump &amp; Texas floods - VM News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The death toll after the horrifying flash floods in Texas has risen to over 100. 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