The growing toxic water crisis and preventable lead poisoning of residents in Flint, Mich., has many people talking, from community leaders and celebrities calling on the governor to resign, to President Barack Obama declaring a state of emergency.
But, ironically, some of the nation’s most vocal personalities Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and fellow Republican candidate Florida Sen. Marco Rubio are not talking this time, and their silence points to the root problem that contributed to this crisis in the first place.
When asked about Flint this week, Trump said it was “a shame” but that he “shouldn’t comment” on it, and Rubio’s response was that it’s “not an issue that right now we’ve been focused on.”
