It is projection.
Trump has already rejected California wildfire emergency requests in the past and on multiple instances threatened emergency aid if he is elected.
The rejected application comes after Trump has repeatedly blamed the state’s fires on poor “forest management.”
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The Trump administration has rejected the California government’s request for federal disaster relief funds to help the state recover from its devastating wildfires this year, state officials said late Thursday, after President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized the Democratic-led state for its handling of the fires.
They say that there’s so much water up north that I want to have the overflow areas go into your forests and dampen your forests, because if you dampen your forests you’re not gonna have these forest fires that are burning at levels that nobody’s ever seen,” Trump told the California Republican Party during its
September 2023 convention.
Trump has made the case that California should be soaking the ground to drive home what he believes is the state’s own culpability for some of its most devastating wildfires. He’s threatened multiple times to withhold federal aid from the state unless it explores his preferred tactics, including ground-wetting.
“I said, ‘You’ve got to clean your floors, you got to clean your forests.’ They have many, many years of leaves and broken trees. And they’re so flammable. You touch them and it goes up,” he said during a rally in August 2020. “Maybe we’re just going to have to make them pay for it because they don’t listen to us.”
Scientists are far from sold on the idea.
On Friday Sept. 13, former president Donald Trump visited Rancho Palos Verdes California where he held a news conference to discuss
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I fully expect a Trump second term would reject many emergency aid requests by California - despite many of our state emergencies such as wildfires happening in Trump voting districts.
