President Trump toured Central Texas on Friday, the place the loss of life toll all through Texas has risen to greater than 100 individuals, with dozens lacking.
After the tour, Trump spoke at a roundtable occasion alongside Texas Governor Greg Abbott and different native and state officers.
CBS Information Texas reporter Marissa Armas requested the President about flood warning alerts earlier than the tragedy, “A number of households now we have heard from are clearly upset as a result of they are saying that these warnings, these alerts didn’t exit in time, and so they additionally say that individuals might have been saved. What do you say to these households?”
“Effectively, I believe everybody did an unimaginable job underneath the circumstances. I assume, like Kristi mentioned, a one in 500, one in a thousand years, and I simply have admiration for the job that everyone did. It was simply admiration. Solely a foul particular person would ask a query like that, to be sincere with you. I don’t know who you might be, however solely a really evil particular person would ask a query like that,” responded Trump.
The President continued, “I believe this has been heroism and this has been unimaginable, and the job you all have finished. It’s straightforward to step again and say, ‘Oh, what might have occurred right here or there? Possibly we might have finished one thing in a different way.’ This was a factor that has by no means occurred earlier than. No one has ever seen something, I’ve by no means seen something like this. I’ve gone to some actual unhealthy ones, and I’ve by no means seen something like this. I love you and I think about you heroes and heroines, and I believe you might have finished an incredible job.”
CBS Information Texas mentioned “there may be mounting frustration in Kerr County, which has the very best loss of life toll of any county, over an obvious lack of solutions to those questions.”
