Biden said he had talked to «everyone» in East Palestine except GOP Mayor Trent Conaway, who greeted former President Donald Trump during a visit on Wednesday.
President Joe Biden said that he «can’t recall» whether he’s spoken to the mayor of East Palestine, Ohio, while refusing to answer a question about a potential visit to the site of a nearby toxic train derailment.
In an interview with ABC News anchor David Muir that aired Friday night, the president said that he had talked to «everyone» in East Palestine except Republican Mayor Trent Conaway. Republicans have heavily criticized Biden for failing to personally travel to the small Ohio village, which is near the state’s eastern border with Pennsylvania, in the weeks after a Norfolk Southern-operated train derailed on February 3.
Conaway has himself lashed out at the president for not visiting the village, telling Fox News host Jesse Watters that Biden’s surprise trip to Ukraine this week was «the biggest slap in the face» that proves «he doesn’t care about us.
