Fact-Checker Lists Trump’s Many Lies About Wildfires

CNN’s Daniel Dale always has the receipts:

I showed a social media post from the president-elect yesterday to an expert in California water policy, a man named Jeffrey Mount. He said, Abby, none of it is true. So this has just been a staggering quantity of wrongness from the president-elect in a very short period of time.

And there have been some small specific examples. Like, he keeps saying that Governor Newsom refused to sign a so-called water restoration declaration. In fact, no such declaration even exists, as Newsom’s office has pointed out. He also said yesterday that they’re not using firefighting planes. We’ve seen those planes. They’re there.

But more than that, Abby, I think the president-elect has promoted an overarching false narrative. You heard a bit of it

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