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riversedge

(73,680 posts)
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 10:47 AM 6 hrs ago

Trump's track record of disaster misinformation as he casts blame over California wildfires I

We all knew that Trump would blame CA officials since it is a blue state!!






Trump's track record of disaster misinformation as he casts blame over California wildfires

It isn't the first time he's gone after federal and local officials.

By Lalee Ibssa January 11, 2025, 1:16 PM


As deadly wildfires burn through Southern California, President-elect Donald Trump has spent the week attacking Democratic officials and continuing a pattern of spreading misinformation about natural disasters.

"I think that Gavin is largely incompetent, and I think the mayor is largely incompetent, and probably both of them are just stone-cold incompetent," Trump said on Thursday night while hosting Republican governors at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

For example, Trump blamed Biden as he falsely claimed that the Federal Emergency Management Agency had "no money" to help California despite Congress recently passing a disaster relief supplemental totaling $29 billion............

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............While visiting Asheville, North Carolina, Trump refused to address threats of violence against FEMA workers, instead saying, "I think you have to let people know how they're doing. If they were doing a great job, I think we should say that, too, because I think they should be rewarded. But if they're not doing -- does that mean that if they're doing a poor job, we're supposed to not say it?"............

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Trump's track record of disaster misinformation as he casts blame over California wildfires I (Original Post) riversedge 6 hrs ago OP
And NC is basically a legislative supermajority for the GOP AllyCat 3 hrs ago #1

AllyCat

(17,308 posts)
1. And NC is basically a legislative supermajority for the GOP
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:46 PM
3 hrs ago

and somehow they bear zero responsibility for the flooding while Cali deserves all the blame. Right….

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