Fired FEMA worker blasts government for blaming her for their anti-Trump policies: 'All I did was take notes'

A FEMA employee claimed she conscionable was taking orders from her superiors erstwhile she directed workers providing assistance to Hurricane Milton survivors in Florida to skip houses with signs supporting Donald Trump.

Marn'i Washington, who was fired implicit the controversy, revealed that the directive came from her bosses and that she is taking the autumn for the agency's argumentation to 'avoid homes advertizing Trump.'

'Why is this coming down connected me?' she said during an interrogation on Fox News @ Night Wednesday. 

'I americium conscionable the idiosyncratic that jotted down the notes from my superiors and my notation successful [Microsoft] Teams chat was exposed from their hunt capableness team.' 

Earlier this week, Washington accused FEMA of 'lying' astir the ungraded and making her the scapegoat of a wider practice.

She mislaid her occupation aft a substance concatenation was leaked that showed her instructing colleagues to 'avoid' houses that had Trump signs successful their yards. 

FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said that Washington 'departed' from the agency's halfway values, violating its principles to 'help radical regardless.' 

However, portion face-to-face with Fox News' Trace Gallagher, Washington insisted that FEMA's claims were utrue, lasting steadfast that specified orders came from higher-ups.

She said that the agency's Florida workers had already been avoiding homes displaying politically charged signs anterior to her engagement there.

'This was the culture. They were already avoiding these homes based connected assemblage trends from hostile governmental encounters. It has thing to bash with the run sign. It conscionable truthful happened to beryllium portion of the assemblage trend,' Washington explained.

She said that she was scapegoated simply due to the fact that she got caught.

'It's casual to past say, "Well, ha ha! it's her name. It's her writing. Make her accountable for it." But I'm conscionable simply executing again, what was coming down from my superiors,' she said.

Washington added that she was provided with a database of instructions connected the 'best practices' for the agency's palmy alleviation intervention. 

The database included directives specified arsenic 'not [sic] 1 goes anyplace alone,' 'communicate and travel the rules,' and debar homes advertizing Trump,' among others.

She besides noted that the 'best practices' database was outlined to assistance guarantee idiosyncratic safety, arsenic good arsenic to debar employees feeling 'unsafe oregon uncomfortable.' 

'I cognize the item present is the Trump run signage, but if idiosyncratic is successful different similar an municipality assemblage and it's a antithetic civilization and idiosyncratic feels uncomfortable, we can't spell to that home,' she said.

'If you person escaped dogs, and idiosyncratic connected the squad was comfy with dogs and different idiosyncratic is not, we can't spell to that location due to the fact that of information precautions.'

Since Washington's firing, the Florida General Attorney, Ashley Moody, has filed a federal suit against Criswell and a erstwhile FEMA supervisor accusing them of violating the civilian rights of Florida residents successful the effect to hurricanes Helene and Milton.

The suit, filed connected Wednesday, accuses FEMA officials of conspiring to discriminate against Florida's hurricane victims who person noted their enactment for Trump.