Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto took a shot at former President Trump for spreading falsehoods about hurricane relief money for people in North Carolina, Florida and other states impacted by extreme weather in recent weeks.
“We’ve also got a lot of misinformation, don’t we? We get people who say in North Carolina that if you’re a Republican, you’re not going to get help, if you’re a Democrat, you’ll get help,” Cavuto said Thursday during a conversation with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
“I would imagine that does a huge disservice to people working together and scares the bejesus out of others when they believe it,” he added.
Buttigieg responded, “Absolutely.”
“I mean, one of the things I’m worried about, the false claim that was going on, for example, that had people believing that if you got $750 in immediate help that, you were never going to get anything else,” he said in the interview, first highlighted by Mediaite.
Trump has drawn widespread backlash in the wake of Hurricane Helene and Milton for suggesting federal officials are “going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas,” and saying Vice President Harris “spent all her FEMA money, billions of dollars, on housing for illegal migrants.”
“You know, whenever somebody hears that, they believe it, and then they don’t apply for more aid which they could absolutely qualify for,” Buttigieg said. “So you know, there are real costs and real consequences to that misinformation.”
Cavuto ended his conversation by blasting the former president directly.
“Donald Trump said that about North Carolina. Republicans not getting help, Democrats getting help — that was Donald Trump,” the host said. “But that kind of misinformation gets out there, and whether it’s perpetrated by a politician or someone you think is someone of note and authority, it is wrong. And it cannot be tolerated.”