Donald Trump attacked Gavin Newsom, Democratic governor of California, whom he accuses of being “responsible” for the violent fires affecting Los Angeles. On his social network Truth Social, the president-elect of the United States accuses him of having “refused to sign the water restoration declaration presented to him, which would have allowed millions of liters of water from “Excess rain and snowmelt in the North will flow daily into many parts of California, including areas currently burning.”
“He wanted to protect a worthless fish, the smelt, by giving it less water (…) but he didn’t care about the people of California. To top it off, no water for the fire hydrants, no firefighting planes A real disaster!”, Trump continues in his diatribe, reported by France Info.
The answers will not have to wait long. “There is no declaration of water restoration, it is pure fiction,” retorted the governor’s press service on X.
Jeffrey Mount, a specialist in water management at the Public Policy Institute of California, then contradicted Trump’s assertions in the columns of the Washington Post: “There is no link between state and federal management of water. water, and the intensity of these fires or the ability of people to fight them.
