“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,” Trump said at a press conference near Los Angeles.

“You have millions of gallons of water pouring down from the north, with the snow caps in Canada and all pouring down, and they have essentially a very large faucet. And you turn the faucet, and it takes one day to turn it — it’s massive, it’s as big as the wall of that building right there, behind you. And you turn that, and all of that water goes aimlessly into the Pacific. And if they turned it back, all of that water would come right down here and right into Los Angeles,” Trump said during the September press conference.

“He’s still fixated on the laughable notion that somehow we need to make America rake again, that somehow we need to be raking the forest, which is so demeaning to decency, common sense and the hard work that’s being done by the U.S. Forest Service, by our Conservation Corps, by Cal Fire and by the National Guard that are out there every day doing vegetation management, doing the work on home hardening and addressing the tough and real work that’s required managing our forests,” Newsom told reporters in Fresno Tuesday.

Of course the real issue is this -

“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.”

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.

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