Lahaina residents joined 'Fox & Friends First' on Tuesday and sounded off on President Biden's comments made during his visit to fire-ravaged Maui on Monday.
Maui residents Etan Krupnick and Amanda Cassidy join "Fox & Friends First" to discuss their take on the president's visit and what the community needs after the devastating wildfire.
"I don’t want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, of what it was like to lose a home," Biden said."Years ago now, 15 years, I was in Washington doing ‘Meet the Press’ … lightning struck at home on a little lake outside the home, not a lake, a big pond. It hit the wire and came up underneath our home into the … air condition ducts."
"I think it was a little bit tone-deaf," Maui resident Amanda Cassidy said of Biden's comments from Monday."However, I can understand how he was trying to meet us somewhere and say, ‘I understand,’ but unfortunately that is nothing that compares to what happened to our community, our beautiful little town and the families of children that were lost and disabled and the elderly. I mean, a car and your kitchen is kind of just a little sad to hear …". It's outrageous.
"The [community's] anger is normal, you know, [it was a] multimillion-dollar photo op," he told co-host."We could've used that money directly to Lahaina, to house more of the families for a longer stay because the rebuild of their homes isn't going to take three months … it's going to be about at least six months just to clean up the area, and we're still looking for family and friends that are still lost, and we're going to mourn them.
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