The outgoing Biden administration now admits that Trump was right when he complained that his supporters were being denied hurricane relief based on politics:

FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell announced Saturday that supervisor Marn’i Washington had been fired after she ordered federal employees under her supervision to”avoid homes advertising Trump” as they canvassed Lake Placid, Florida to identify residents who could qualify for federal aid, according to messages shared with The Daily Wire by whistleblowers. These instructions were given both verbally and in writing, multiple government employees revealed.

“More than 22,000 FEMA employees every day adhere to FEMA’s core values and are dedicated to helping people before, during and after disasters, often sacrificing time with their own families to help disaster survivors. Recently, one FEMA employee departed from these values to advise her survivor assistance team to not go to homes with yard signs supporting President-elect Trump,” Criswell said in a statement. “This is a clear violation of FEMA’s core values and principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation. This was reprehensible.”

This shameful episode only came to light because a whistleblower sent this image of an internal FEMA communication to the conservative website The Daily Wire:

But that’s only half the scandal here. The media excoriated Trump for his claims about politics interfering with who got aid after the hurricanes bashed Florida and North Carolina coasts.

At issue was Trump’s social media post. He accurately spotlighted the scandal: “don’t like the reports that I’m getting about the federal government and the Democrat governor of the State [Cooper of NC], going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas.”

A few days later, “fact checkers” at The New York Times declared Trump’s claim “lacks evidence.” To their credit, a few weeks later they admitted their mistake.