East Palestine Resident Says Town Isn’t Fooled by Biden’s Visit Announcement: ‘We Know What He’s Doing’

A lifelong resident of East Palestine, Ohio, the site of last year’s devastating toxic train derailment, implied that President Joe Biden’s upcoming visit to the area is probably too little and too late — and a little too transparent — since the photo op is likely just a form of electioneering.

When the “Fox & Friends” crew asked DJ Yokley on Wednesday what Biden might say to the community upon his arrival, the Ohio man, who also runs a business in the disaster-stricken village, responded, “I don’t know. I don’t know if he’s gonna be any more confused than we are of why he’s showing up a year later.”

Yokley suggested that it’s all about election year politics and that under the circumstances, Biden “better have a wagon full of answers and a wagon full of good news for us because otherwise why are you coming at this point? Why are showing your face if not just to try to sway votes and try to get back in office?”

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“It’s a scenario where we know what he’s doing. The American people see it, and now it’s, ‘Hey, we have to go visit East Palestine because we haven’t done that yet, and check it off the books,'” he declared.

Yokley indicated that it’s a frustrating situation in that Joe Biden seems more interested in what’s going on overseas, “but as American citizens, we understand that there’s nothing that he’s done for us and nothing that this administration has done for us other than say that he’ll be coming.”

Biden’s dismal polling numbers may have convinced his handlers to, at long last, schedule a visit, although Ohio is likely to go Republican anyway, at least at the presidential level. That perhaps may have also been the reason for the administration’s seeming lack of interest following the catastrophe.

Now that Biden is in the middle of a campaign in election 2024 and the White House might be desperate for any bit of good press, he’s headed there.

As an aside, co-host Brian Kilmeade mentioned during the interview that Sen. Sherrod Brown, a far-left Democrat, is also facing a tough 2024 re-election battle in the Buckeye State.