Republican veteran running airlifting operation into North Carolina tears into Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for Hurricane Helene 'photo ops' that delayed 'life-saving operations'

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's abstracted trips to survey Hurricane Helene harm delayed important rescue efforts and perchance outgo lives, a Republican moving alleviation missions charges. 

Florida Republican Rep. Cory Mills, an Army seasoned who has self-conducted assistance missions from Afghanistan to Haiti, has been unilaterally coordinating Helene alleviation effect successful North Carolina.

He was determination instantly aft the tempest made landfall past week, earlier national authorities assistance arrived, and has witnessed the horrific harm firsthand. 

Videos amusement Mills with packing helicopters with food, h2o and aesculapian supplies flying to impacted areas. One representation shows a smiling aged woman with an IV drip attached to her limb successful the backmost of a chopper adjacent to a grinning Mills. 

At-risk Americans similar the smiling woman were enactment successful peril by Biden and Harris's 'photo ops,' Mills wrote the president successful a missive exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com, arsenic those visits delayed rescue operations and grounded aerial operations and could've outgo lives.   

'After 96 hours, rescue missions crook into betterment missions, and some of your visits delayed important life-saving operations erstwhile they were needed most,' Mills wrote successful his missive to the president. 

'We volition ne'er cognize however galore lives could person been saved oregon helped during the captious clip wasted for the involvement of photograph ops. This level of disregard is unacceptable.'

'The consequences of these actions are not counted successful dollars, but successful lives. You recognize that statesmanlike question requires specified actions, and yet you went anyway. This does not talk to incompetence from your administration, but a calculated determination that your photograph op was worthy lasting successful the mode of rescue efforts.'

The VP visited Augusta, Georgia, connected Wednesday and an Air National Guard basal successful Charlotte, North Carolina, connected Saturday.

The president flew to the Asheville, North Carolina, connected Wednesday to conscionable with section leaders and get briefed connected the section damage. 

Biden besides visited Ray City, Georgia, on Thursday wherever helium toured a pecan workplace wherever enactment aft enactment of the orchard's trees stood snapped and mangled.  

The White House visits, the Republican alleges successful his letter, forced planes and helicopters conducting captious alleviation to onshore earlier they reached their destination.  

'After witnessing your administration's implicit nonaccomplishment to respond to those stranded by flooding, I person spent the past week moving with backstage partners to present food, water, aesculapian supplies, diapers, insulin, oxygen tanks, and different captious supplies,' Mills wrote.

'We've conducted wellness checks and provided extraction for those successful contiguous danger.'

'Yet contempt these efforts, we were forced to halt each rescue operations truthful that you and Vice President Harris could instrumentality photos for your societal media, astatine antithetic times, nary less.'

One of the wellness checks they conducted was connected the aged pistillate from the Asheville country that was showing signs of diminution earlier the lawmaker and his unit were capable to prime her up and supply her aid. 

On different cheque Mills encountered an 83-year-old antheral showing signs of cardiac distress - an urgent concern. 

The Republican charges that the president and VP's trips amounted to 8 hours of daylight 'wasted' owed to 'restricted flying' protocols enforced to accommodate the visits. 

'Due to the deficiency of capable national response, Americans crossed the state person stepped up to assistance their neighbors,' Mills' missive to Biden said. 'However, alternatively of aiding these efforts, regulatory bodies person made it harder for backstage citizens to present life-saving alleviation efforts.'

He besides says the Biden-Harris administration's regulations person made it harder for live-saving efforts. 

'The Department of Transportation adjacent threatened transgression enactment against drone pilots surveying the country for survivors.'

'Worse, Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs) imposed during your and the Vice President's visits forced civilian pilots to land. Not lone did this hold the transportation of indispensable aid, aesculapian supplies, and Starlink systems, but it besides brought rescue efforts to a halt.' 

GOP vice statesmanlike nominee J.D. Vance besides decried the national exigency effect connected Monday saying it has been dilatory owed to bureaucratic reddish tape.

'You request to empower a subject commandant connected the crushed to get helicopters to wherever they request to go, to get supplies to wherever they request to go, to chopped done immoderate of the FAA bureaucracy,' Vance said.

'The occupation here, I truly believe, is conscionable — it's similar the DMV astatine concern scale.'