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WATCH: Florida State Guard Member Puts Biden-Harris On Notice With Post-Helene Claims

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Jonathan Howard, with the Florida State Guard Special Missions Unit, provided a video message detailing the on-the-ground situation during the aerial recovery efforts in North Carolina following the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene. He said reports and claims that the Biden-Harris administration was present and providing assistance to those affected by the storm were “bullshit.”

” I really don’t want to make this video, but it is literally a matter of life and death for the people of North Carolina. So, my name is Jonathan Howard. I’m a member of the Florida State Guard Special Missions Unit,” he began. “I’m also up here with Aerial Recovery, a non-profit. I came up here on Sunday with Aerial Recovery before we even got activated. We flew up here and then we got activated, which was great.” (See video below)



“I had my team up here working as well. Here’s the problem. I’m going to tell you everything that’s happening from the ground, what I’m actually seeing, because what they’re telling you is complete bullsh*t on the news and these politicians don’t have a f*cking clue and they’re lying,” he continued. “I’ll say this now. I’ll say it at the end of the video. The only thing I need from this video is helicopters.”

Continuing, Howard said: “If I have helicopters, I can save lives. Without helicopters, I can’t reach these people. It doesn’t matter how many chainsaws and trucks I got, I can’t get to them. They’re 10 miles in, 20 miles, 40 miles in the mountains. There’s no way to get with them or even communicate with them. I am literally flying around in a civilian helicopter looking for SOS messages carved in the mud or painted on the ground and we’re dropping down and saving them.”

He went on:

What got me fired up about this was yesterday, me and my team did the rescue of that 11-day-year-old baby and all these government officials and social media, they’re showing that video, that pictures and video of that rescue and claiming that they have some government help with that. Even USA Today wrote an article about it saying it was a Florida National Guard that went and got it with a helicopter. No, it was me, my buddy Charlie, and a civilian named Zeb with his own personal helicopter out of Wilmington, North Carolina.

Without that civilian, that baby would be dead. And the old lady we went and rescued after that, she’d be dead too because she had one day left of oxygen. No one was going to go get them. I will tell you when we go up in the air, I probably see 40 civilian helicopters. I might see two Blackhawks, National Guard, military, whatever they are. That’s it. No one’s out there doing rescues. I have my entire team up here from Florida right now and they have no ability to go rescue these people other than what they can drive to. And the people that are in dire need, they’re out in the mountains.

They are completely cut off. Now I will say I spoke to my Congresswoman down in Florida and she’s a badass and she made a bunch of phone calls and now we got two contracted 60s coming up here tomorrow, which is great. I love that, but like I still don’t understand why we don’t have more helicopters. Like we’ll get a lot of work done with that, but there’s no, there’s no military. There’s no, no one’s doing nothing. I just, it blows my mind.

And they’re not even allowing people to see what’s really going on. One of our friends yesterday they were actually escorting CNN down to Lake Lure, and they wouldn’t even let CNN, the sheriff’s department would not let them go videotape the bad areas of how destructive it is. I don’t know why they don’t want to show you all that, but I mean, it is bad.

I should also say when I flew here on Sunday, they actually stopped us from going in the sheriff department. And it was because of a bunch of politics that they were claiming was a Speaker of the House of North Carolina that was preventing us from even going in and trying to kick us out, which I have clarified today with North Carolina politicians that reached out to me — good on them. And they were like, that’s complete BS.

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