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Last night, the @HoustonChron reporter, who wrote the story with Bidenโs lie, that he couldnโt find me or Gov. Abbott, asked for the state call log of my conversation with the president. We sent them the log.
The log showed only a 3 minute call from President Biden to @TDEM @ChiefKidd. Chief Kidd was sitting next to me as we waited for the presidentโs call. I spoke to the president from 11:49 a.m. to 11:52 a.m. on Chief Kiddโs phone.
The reason they called Chief Kidd was puzzling to me since they had just been given my cell phone number. @FEMA had called a TDEM employee roughly 10 minutes before my call with the president asking for my personal phone number. My team gave FEMA my cell number and my chief of staffโs phone number. Yet, the president still called Chief Kiddโs phone 10 minutes later instead of calling of me.
I spent all weekend working alongside FEMA employees at the State Operations Center in Austin. They are good men and women, but they never said the president was trying to reach me.
The president could have simply called his own FEMA employees who were working with me for 3 days before, during, and after the hurricane. If they wanted to find me, I was easily found. I was where I was supposed to be, at the state operations center, day and night, in plain sight.
Gov. Abbott did not hear from the president during Hurricane Beryl either. Gov. Abbott tweeted that the president has his phone number and called him as recently as Memorial Day. But, he did not call Abbott either during the hurricane.
โจTo suggest that the president could not find me or the governor is ridiculous. The bottom line is this: I asked for a federal disaster declaration at the proper time without delay and the president agreed. Sadly, President Biden is attacking Gov. Abbott and me, trying to score political points, for reasons that make no sense. Mr. President, as you like to say, โCโmon, man!โ #txlege
I am disappointed that President Biden is turning Hurricane Beryl into a political issue. We had a cordial call today that ended up with him granting my request for a major disaster declaration. But thatโs not good enough for him. He is falsely accusing me that I was not
