While Donald Trump took credit for bringing truckloads of supplies to hurricane-ravaged Georgia last month, it appears that the only thing he brought to Valdosta that day was traffic and a first-responder diversion from the relief effort.

Today Ive come to Valdosta with large semi-trucks, many of them filled with relief aid, and a tanker truck filled up with gasoline. We have a couple of the big tanker trucks filled up with gasoline, the coup -attempting former president said Sept. 30 in front of a destroyed furniture store in Valdosta.

Trumps campaign later sent out a press release headlined, President Trump Delivers Relief, Support To Hurricane-Ravaged South, which then stated: President Trump delivered relief supplies to aid in the hurricanes devastating aftermath: We have a lot of truckloads of different items, from oil to water to all sorts of equipment thats going to help ... Were here today to stand in complete solidarity with the people of Georgia and with all of those suffering.

In reality, those trucks were brought by Samaritans Purse, a charity run by the pastor Franklin Graham . They were already there by the time Trump flew to the local airport and then rode into town in his Secret Service motorcade, according to residents.

That motorcade and the increased security needed at Trumps photo opportunity required 42 officers from the Georgia State Patrol, according to documents from that agency obtained by HuffPost.

A smaller number of Valdosta police officers and deputies from the Lowndes County Sheriffs Office also provided traffic control at the towns intersections during Trumps visit, said Mayor Scott James Matheson. He acknowledged that those officers could not continue with relief and cleanup efforts while they were detailed to Trumps visit.

Not wanting to interfere with cleanup efforts, in fact, was the reason President Joe Biden cited for waiting to visit until roads were open and immediate needs taken care of. It was the same reason Trumps own energy secretary, Rick Perry, cited in 2017 when he explained why then-President Trump had not visited Houston after Hurricane Harvey.

He really wanted to be where there were citizens being affected. He was advised: the better place for you to go is Corpus Christi or San Antonio or Austin, where no search and rescue resources would be pulled away from what theyre doing, Perry said.

Trumps campaign defended the timing of the visit to Valdosta. He met with the volunteers. He shook their hands, said spokesperson Karoline Leavitt.