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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump blasted for his insulting lies about deadly California wildfires
Trump blasted for his insulting lies about deadly California wildfires
https://shareblue.com/wildfires-california-trump-lies/
By Dan Desai Martin -
August 6, 2018
'The ignorance displayed by the president is a serious national crisis,' Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) told Shareblue.
For nine days, Trump remained silent as wildfires ravaged northern California. For nine days, Trump said nothing about the seven people who have died in the disaster, including two firefighters, or about the more than 1,000 homes that have been destroyed.
On Sunday, Trump finally released his first official White House comments on the fires via Twitter.
But rather than offer comfort to the victims or praise the heroic work of firefighters, Trump decided to spread absurd, insulting lies that blamed the wildfires on Californias own environmental protection policies.
California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which arent allowing massive amount of readily available water to be properly utilized, Trump said. It is being diverted into the Pacific Ocean. Must also tree clear to stop fire spreading!
Trump made similar claims in a second tweet Monday afternoon, suggesting that California Gov. Jerry Brown was preventing the Free Flow of the vast amounts of water coming from the North...........................................
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Trump blasted for his insulting lies about deadly California wildfires (Original Post)
riversedge
Aug 2018
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Cha
(297,507 posts)1. The malicious viciousness on display everyday by
the fake potus squatting in our WH.
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)2. He is doing this for his base in the rural areas
that need water to irrigate their farms. Water irrigation is a big deal to them. That is why he is doing this...everything comes back to his base/cult.
kimbutgar
(21,177 posts)3. Redding went big for Twitler in 2016. It red neck country up there. No word of sympathy from him
The central part of California went for Twitler but there are a lot of Asians and Hispanics that live there who dont like his immigration deportation policies.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)4. So the Redding area where the fires are is republican yet he said nothing all this time ? He is
not even sympathetic to his own voter areas because it's part of California !! He has such hatred for California
SMH
Americans have died in this disaster