Donald Trump to Visit East Palestine, Ohio amid Cleanup Efforts

“A source familiar confirms to Fox News that former President Trump will visit East Palestine, OH, on Wednesday to tour the damage of the Norfolk Southern derailment and cleanup efforts,” Fox News’s Garrett Tenney tweeted.

Trump’s visit comes amid clean-up efforts as the community deals with the aftermath of a train derailment earlier in the month that released toxic chemicals.

Roughly 50 train cars were involved in the February 3 derailment. Ohio officials also performed a “controlled release” of five derailed train cars holding vinyl chloride days after the derailment.

However, recent data shows that the train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania “spewed more harmful pollutants into the air, surface soils and water table than originally reported,” as Breitbart News reported:

A list of the cars involved in the derailment and the products they were carrying since released by Norfolk Southern reveals several more toxic chemicals than first made apparent following the crash, ABC News reports.