‘We Need Help!’ Local LA News Anchor Slams ‘Disgusting’ Politicization Of Devastating Fires

Local Fox LA anchor Elex Michaelson joined progressive podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen for a recent episode on the ongoing fires ravaging the Los Angeles area. Tyler Cohen asked Michaelson to weigh in on the quick politicization of the fires as President-elect Donald Trump wasted no time in using the disaster to attack his political enemies like President Joe Biden and California Governor Gavin Newsom (D).

“People are really hurting and it is disgusting and gross that any leader would take this opportunity as a moment to score political points. And any of those people, Democrat or Republican,” Michaelson said, striking a non-partisan tone and adding:

I invite them to come to Pacific Palisades. Come to Altadena and walk those streets like I did yesterday. Look around and then say the same thing in good conscious. I invite them to come to the evacuation center where there’s hundreds, maybe thousands of people scattered all over the place who are desperate, who lost everything in their life and go look them in the eye and then try to make a political point. We need help!

This is not a time for political points. This is a time for people to come together and find a way within their own humanity to help people that need help. The reason we have a government is for situations like this to help lift people up. So there is a sense of safety net. So there is a way for people to go. And if the government doesn’t get its act together, it’s disastrous not only for the people impacted, it’s disastrous for the economy of this country, of this county, of this state. It’s disastrous for everybody.

And and Donald Trump has made his career as a real estate guy and as a builder. He’s really good as putting his name on a lot of things. And I welcome him as a Californian to show off how great he is at building. Come in here, show everybody how it’s done. If the Democrats can’t do it right, you do it better. I don’t care who does it, but somebody’s got to do it because these people need help.

In recent days, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has publicly said he believes that disaster aid should be conditioned on political considerations in the House.

Watch the clip above.

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