A new report claims that the North Carolina National Guard loaded a C-17 full of supplies for hurricane victims so Vice President Kamala Harris could take advantage of a photo op. The report also claims that the supplies were never sent to Hurricane Helene victims in North Carolina.
The allegation came during a recent episode of “The Shawn Ryan Show,” featuring Jonathan Howard and Charlie Keebaugh, two members of Aerial Recovery, which is a nonprofit organization that responds to natural disasters and provides humanitarian aid to people impacted by various crises.
During an appearance on “The Shawn Ryan Show, Jonathan Howard, who is also a member of the Florida State Guard Special Missions Unit, said, “I had a squadron commander from North Carolina reach out to me. They had to load a C-17 full of supplies just to take a photo op for Kamala, and they never sent the bird.”
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In response to Shawn Ryan’s shock regarding the allegation, Howard said, “They loaded an entire C-17 full of supplies for the hurricane victims, just for Kamala to go there, take a photo, take a video, and they never sent the C-17. That was a North Carolina National Guard unit. That was 06 that reached out to me.”
Howard added that the whole National Guard incident was “just a photo op” for the vice president.
Collin Rugg, co-owner of Trending Politics, shared a video clip from “The Shawn Ryan Show” on X, formerly Twitter. Commenting on the allegations against the vice president, Rugg tweeted, “The NC National Guard allegedly loaded an entire C17 with supplies just so Kamala Harris could stage a photo-op for Hurricane Helene without the intention of the supplies being used.”
During his appearance on Ryan’s show, Howard also claimed that President Joe Biden’s decision to fly above the devastated communities in North Carolina resulted in a no-fly zone order that prevented rescue operations from being conducted for several hours. Howard said that despite efforts to convince the president not to come to the region and delay “life or death” rescue operations, Biden “came anyways” and “shut us down.”
Howard said that the vice president’s alleged photo op and the president’s visit to North Carolina were examples of the “political nonsense that was happening” during the early stages of the federal government’s response to Hurricane Helene.
