Joe Biden’s Response to East Palestine Visit Question Raises Eyebrows

Joe Biden is facing criticism over his response to questions about why he has yet to visit the site of a toxic train derailment near East Palestine, Ohio, while conducting a press conference in Florida in the wake of a hurricane making landfall in the north of the state.

While surveying the damage done by Hurricane Idalia in Live Oak at the weekend, the president was asked about why he had yet to visit the small, rural town in the seven months since the toxic spill, despite pledging to do so in the immediate aftermath.

“I haven’t had the occasion to go to East Palestine,” he told the…