‘Sounds Like Peter Strzok’: Jordan Grills FEMA Director Over Text Message Telling Workers To Avoid Trump Supporters

Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio compared a text message allegedly sent to disaster relief workers to comments by disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok Tuesday while questioning Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Deanne Criswell about a directive to skip houses whose residents advertised their support for President-elect Donald Trump.

The text message, reportedly sent by former FEMA Disaster Survivor Assistance crew leader Marn’i Washington, listed a series of “best practices” that included avoiding “homes advertising Trump signs.” Jordan pressed Criswell about the message, putting it on screen during a House Oversight Committee hearing.

“She said it’s common practice, you said it’s reprehensible and isolated. Both statements can’t be true, so someone’s not giving 🇺🇸US the facts and I’m trying to figure 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 had to have been given those instructions by 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 put the screenshot up on the, on the screen? Let’s look at what the text message said,” Jordan said. “The text message said: implement best practices like — this is the best practices, we’re gonna implement them and they talk about making sure you go in pairs or with more than one person, avoid the Trump homes, drink your water, take your towel, coconut water.”