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Date: September 19, 2024 at 10:21:02
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Trump threatens to withhold wildfire aid from California |
URL: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/newsom-trump-wildfires-19763650.php |
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Trump is such an idiot. Sure, all we have to do is just
dampen all the land in the state with water (he is
insane):
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Trump threatens to withhold wildfire aid from
California unless ‘Newscum’ agrees to changes
By Sophia Bollag, Politics Reporter, SacramentoSep 13,
2024
Former President Donald Trump is threatening to cut off
wildfire aid to California if the state doesn’t reduce
water restrictions for farms and wealthy Southern
California residents.
During a Friday news conference, Trump talked about
farmers and wealthy residents in enclaves like Beverly
Hills who have to reduce their water use because of
California environmental regulations intended to
protect Delta smelt, an endangered species of fish.
Trump, who is running for president, said if he is
elected he will force Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign an
agreement to end those restrictions.
“The reason you have no water is because Gavin Newscum
didn’t want to do it,” Trump told reporters in Rancho
Palos Verdes, a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles. “Gavin
Newscum is going to sign those papers and if he doesn’t
sign those papers we won’t give him money to put out
all his fires.”
Newsom posted a clip of Trump’s comments on social
media, saying every voter “should be made aware” of the
former president’s threats.
“@realDonaldTrump just admitted he will block emergency
disaster funds to settle political vendettas,” Newsom
wrote on Twitter. “Today it’s California’s wildfires.
Tomorrow it could be hurricane funding for North
Carolina or flooding assistance for homeowners in
Pennsylvania. Donald Trump doesn’t care about America —
he only cares about himself.”
California is currently battling several major fires,
including the Airport Fire in Southern California.
At the same news conference, Trump also suggested that
if California allowed more “water flow” then the land
would be “damp,” and that it would reduce fires in the
state.
“You have all that water that could be used to what
they call water flow, where the land would be damp, and
you would stop many of these horrible fires,” he said.
It’s not the first time Trump has made the bizarre
claim that wetting California forest floors would
reduce fires. It’s also not the first time Trump has
threatened to withhold aid for fires over California’s
policies. While he was president, he threatened to cut
funding if California didn’t do more to clear its
forest floors. But despite the threats, he continued to
approve federal payments as California battled hundreds
of lightning-sparked fires in 2020.
“There’s not a phone call that I have made to the
president where he hasn’t quickly responded,” Newsom
told reporters that summer after Trump threatened to
cut funding. “He may make statements publicly, but the
working relationship privately is an effective one.”
Trump’s threats in 2020 also came as he was in the
thick of a presidential campaign. Newsom at the time
was in the somewhat awkward position of publicly
blasting Trump in his role as a surrogate for Joe
Biden, who was Trump’s opponent at the time, while also
requesting federal aid as California battled both fires
and the COVID-19 pandemic. Both Trump and Newsom have
described their personal interactions from that time as
professional, even as they publicly criticized each
other.
“He’s a lousy governor and he treated me very nicely
and I treated him very nicely when I was president, but
he’s done a lousy job,” Trump said Friday.
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Date: September 19, 2024 at 10:31:25
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Trump threatens to withhold wildfire aid from California |
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OMG.................
The angry little boy mad at Gavin for not catering to his
exclusive, entitled friends will withhold firefighting
protection and aid for millions of human beings...and make
an idiot of himself trying to pretend he's got it covered
by...doing WHAT?
And this is someone many would elect president...
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Date: September 19, 2024 at 11:35:48
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Trump threatens to withhold wildfire aid from California |
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Trump hates California because it usually goes blue.
It's part of his retribution and tantrum tour.
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