A now-former FEMA supervisor who was canned for telling aid workers to skip houses with Trump signs in their yard following an explosive report from The Daily Wire says she’s being made a scapegoat for what she claims was agency-wide guidance.
Speaking to Fox News this week, Marn'i Washington, who texts show her telling employees canvassing for disaster victims in Florida following Hurricane Milton to skip the homes of residents displaying Trump 2024 signs, claims the guidance was widespread and well known among the agency’s management, likening it to workers being advised to skip over homes with aggressive dogs if the worker felt “uncomfortable.”
"Why is this coming down on me? I am the person that jotted down the notes from my superiors and my notation in [Microsoft] Teams chat told Fox News’ Trace Gallagher this week.
Make no mistake, Marni Washington is a feckless POS. Just because she is outing FEMA higher ups doesn’t mean she didn’t gleefully follow those orders. She should be fined, jailed, and have her nursing license revoked.
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"I know the highlight here is the Trump campaign signage, but if someone is in another like an urban community and it's a different culture and someone feels uncomfortable, we can't go to that home. If you have loose dogs, and someone on the team was comfortable with dogs and another person is not, we can't go to that home because of safety precautions,” she added.
She also claims FEMA relief workers had been skipping over the pro-Trump houses well before she showed up on the scene, telling Gallagher, "This was the culture. They were already avoiding these homes based on community trends from hostile political encounters. It has nothing to do with the campaign sign. It just so happened to be part of the community trend.”
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Deanne Criswell, FEMA’s administrator on employee misconduct, called Washington’s actions “reprehensible” in a statement announcing Washington’s firing. Another FEMA spokesperson insisted in an email to Fox News Digital that the whole thing was an "isolated incident."
Washington, on the other hand, says she’s being thrown under the bus to protect FEMA management. In response to Gallagher asking, "So you're telling me these orders came from somebody above?" Washington responded, “Correct."
"And it's easy to then say, ‘Well, ha ha! it's her name. It's her writing. Make her accountable for it.’ But I'm just simply executing again, what was coming down from my superiors,” she said.
Florida has since sued FEMA over the incident, alleging the federal agency discriminated against residents based on political affiliation.
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