Trump 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 California’s own environmental protection policies.

“California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren’t 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.”..........................................