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Joe Biden Sees Ukraine Flags Flying from Homes All Over Small Town America
…”And the American people are united in our resolve as well. All across my country, in big cities and small towns, Ukrainian flags fly from American homes. Over the past year, Democrats and Republicans in our United States Congress have come together to stand for freedom. That’s who Americans are, and that’s what Americans do.”…
“I think we all agree the most important thing going on in the world right now is the war in Ukraine,” GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell.
It must have been cold comfort to the residents of East Palestine, Ohio, who awoke on President’s Day morning – some coughing, others spotted with rash, or wrestling nausea and headaches – to see their president… in Ukraine.
Still wracked by unanswered questions about the cause of and response to a potentially deadly, toxic train wreck in their small and largely forgotten Rust Belt town, they must have watched Biden on a tour of Kyiv and wondered why hardly anyone from the White House has come to see them too.
It’s been 18 days since the crash, and not only has Biden not deigned to survey the damage himself, but the mayor of East Palestine claims it took two weeks for the White House to even reach out to him.
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