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Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio compared a text message allegedly sent to emergency responders to comments made by disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok Tuesday as he questioned the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Deanne Criswell, regarding a directive banning leaving homes where residents announced their support for the president-elect. Donald Trump.

SMS, would have sent by former FEMA Disaster Survivor Assistance Team Leader Marn’i Washington listed a series of “best practices” that included avoiding “homes advertising Trump signs.” Jordan pressed Criswell’s message and displayed it on the screen during a House Oversight Committee. hearing.

“She said it was common practice, you said it was wrong and isolated. Both statements can’t be true, so someone’s not giving us the facts and I’m trying to find out who’s not telling the truth,” Jordan told Criswell, who said the agency was investigating.

After Jordan pressed Criswell about another FEMA employee saying Washington must have received those instructions from his superiors, he turned to the text message.

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“Let’s look…maybe the best evidence we have is the actual screenshot. Can you display the screenshot on the screen? Let’s look at what the text message says,” Jordan said. “The text message said: implement best practices like – these are best practices, we’re going to implement them and they talk about making sure you go in pairs or in groups, avoid Trump houses, drink your water, take your towel, coconut water.

“So stay hydrated, stay with someone else, and don’t go to Trump houses. This seems pretty common and concrete, based on the evidence we have, the text message itself. But you still say that Ms. Washington and this other person are not telling the truth,” Jordan continued.

FEMA came under fire on relief efforts in western North Carolina following Hurricane Helene, which killed at least 227 people. Jordan told Criswell that the comments in the text message allegedly sent from Washington were similar to other instances where liberals shamed Trump supporters after noting that a FEMA official told workers to watch out for “the types of people that are in Western North Carolina.”

“Do you know what that looks like? This sounds like Peter Strzok… when he said, “I just walked into Walmart, I can smell the Trump supporters.” This sounds like Joe Biden when he says all the ‘trash’ I see is Trump supporters,” Jordan said. “Seems like the guy the Democrats had, the professor the Democrats had testify in 2019, during impeachment proceedings, conservatives, “especially very conservative people, tend to scatter,” perhaps because they “don’t even want to be with themselves.”

“This disdain, this mindset that’s in government, where they are, everyone is deplorable, everyone is trash, everyone is, you know, smelly people at Walmart and, oh, watch out for those people in Western North Carolina,” Jordan continued. “That’s what it looks like and again, the best evidence is the text message we have that reinforces that mindset that we’ve seen in so many people in our government.”

The FBI licensed Strzok on August 13, 2018 regarding texts to FBI lawyer Lisa Page, with whom Strzok had an affair, in which Strzok disparaged Trump and his supporters while investigating alleged collusion between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia.

“In my 23 years at the FBI, I have not seen a more impactful series of missteps that called the entire organization into question and more profoundly damaged the reputation of the entire organization” , wrote David Bowditch, then deputy director of the FBI, in a draft of the termination letter, according to at the Washington Examiner.

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