CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Rips Trump ‘Lies’ At Rallies Over Hurricane Response — Not True ‘No Matter How Effective’ They Are

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins called out former President Donald Trump’s “lies” about hurricane response at several events in North Carolina, saying they were not true “no matter how effective” they are.

Trump and his allies have been spreading misleading information and outright lies about the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other Biden administration responses to the devastating Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, even as GOP officials have refuted the attacks.

At a press event and a pair of rallies in North Carolina Monday, Trump continued to press those attacks.

On Monday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Collins opened the show by calling out Trump and contrasting Trump’s events with a VP Kamala Harris rally that featured Liz Cheney:

KAITLAN COLLINS: Vice President Harris is just wrapping up a campaign stop, in her third blue wall state of the day, Wisconsin, after making a blitz through Pennsylvania and Michigan, with a striking new assist, at her side, from former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, who is hoping to help Harris, in these critical final 15 days, to win over moderate Republicans and Independents, by creating basically a provision structure, for them to do something a lot of them may have never done before. Vote for a Democrat. Cheney certainly hasn’t.

But she is making a very public plea about what undecided voters should do, and could keep private.

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LIZ CHENEY: If people are uncertain, if people are thinking, Well, you know, I’m a conservative, I don’t know that I can support Vice President Harris. I would say, I don’t know if anybody is more conservative than I am, and–

(LAUGHTER)

CHENEY: You can vote your conscience and not ever have to say a word to anybody. And there will be millions of Republicans who do that on November 5th.

(APPLAUSE)

(END VIDEO CLIP)

COLLINS: Now, you might hear that and be thinking to yourself, Who on earth is still undecided at this point? At least one of the candidates is also wondering the same thing.

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DONALD TRUMP: It’s hard to believe you have undecided voters. I do hear about them. But you possibly do.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

COLLINS: It’s like talking about unicorns or something.

But there are voters, who have still not made up their minds yet. And given they may very well determine the outcome of this election, both campaigns are desperate to find them, tonight.

Trump spent the day stumping out in North Carolina. He held several events there, including a rally, where he again lied about FEMA and the hurricane response, as he stopped off in a storm zone.

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TRUMP: You didn’t get the proper support from this administration. They spent their money on illegal migrants. They spent their money.

(BOOING)

TRUMP: They didn’t have any money left for North Carolina.

We will end the looting, ransacking, raping and pillaging of North Carolina and, frankly, every other state in the union.

(CHEERING)

(END VIDEO CLIP)

COLLINS: Again, that is not true. No matter how many times he says it, and no matter how effective it might be, it’s just not true.

But when it comes to the campaign trail, and what the next two weeks are going to look like, Trump might be trying to pull a Harris, by having an unusual face join him out there on the road.

Liz Cheney is getting Vice President Harris out there, trying to court those Nikki Haley primary voters.

But Trump said today, he thinks Haley is actually going to be joining him out on the road. We’ll see if she does.

Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.