Tremendous reporting. Should read their deeply sourced reporting about all of that. It is fascinating and devastating at the same time. Yes, exactly those two things, yes. Have a good weekend. You too. In august of 2020, donald trump was campaigning for reelection. We were in the throes of the covid19 pandemic. The summer saw a wave of protests and up risings over the murders of george floyd. To top it all off, the state of california was experiencing its largest wildfire season in recorded history. And it was that last crisis that prompted donald trump to say this during a campaign rally in pennsylvania. I see again the forest fires are starting. They re starting again in california. I said you have to clean your floors, you have to clean your floors. Many many years of leaves and broken trees. And they re like, like so flammable. You touch them and it goes up. I ve been telling them this now for three years. But they don t want to listen. The environment, the environment but they hav
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just totally unable to. i hate to tell you, puerto rico, but you ve thrown our budget a little out of whack. he also blamed the state of california for the devastating wildfires there last year, tweeting that there is no reason for these massive deadly and costly forest fires in california except that forest management is so poor. remedy now or no more fed payments. that s trump warning the fires not to happen. i m joined by eli stokols, white house reporter for the l.a. times and jennifer rubin for the washington post. it s like his tax policy. get the big tax states because they voted against him. don t worry about places that he can t win like california or puerto rico where they don t get to vote for president, but love florida. don t even go to poland, which loves us. don t go there, and don t mess up on texas. it is so obviously political, his empathy. well, he is for three years shown and been explicit about the fact that he believes everything is about his self-intere
killing at least 23 people. but it does seem in sharp contrast to the tone president trump took after the worst wildfires in california history five months ago when 85 people were killed in a northern california camp fire alone. quote, there is no reason for these massive deadly and costly forest fires in california except that forest management is so poor. remedy now or no more fed payments. comforter in chief? not so much when it comes to california. instead he seems perilously close to blaming the victim and he continued in that vein denying that climate change had any role to play and suggesting that the solution ray in the raking of forests. seek yusly. you have to take care of the floors, you know, the floors of the forests, very important. floors of the forest. could trump s callousness to california sound something like his head smacking responses to puerto rico. saying that the american island was facing a fiscal crisis of its own making and warning that fema couldn t stay
political fallout of the deadly wildfires from our west coast brewer row. hi, trace. good evening, the fire fighting in california at its peak, president trump said what many considered an ill timed tweet, there is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in california except that forest management is so poor. billions of dollars is given each year with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forest. remedy now or no more fed payments. the tweet drew immediate backlash. california governor-elect newsome called the president s action partisanship and others accuse the president of continuing his ongoing battle with california, except the president s comment wasn t partisan. it was accurate. there is little disagreement that dry overgrown forests are enormous fuel driven kinder boxes. this year the little hoover commission, an independent california oversight agency