As wildfires burn across California, Trump lashes out at the state on Twitter
LOS ANGELES - Autumn in California now comes not only with fierce, wind-driven wildfires but with routine claims from President Donald Trump that the state's leaders are to blame for the disasters, followed by assurances from experts that the president doesn't know what he's talking about.
The cycle renewed again Sunday, when Trump tweeted that Gov. Gavin Newsom and U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., had failed to properly manage the state's forests, causing a string of recent blazes.
Newsom "has done a terrible job of forest management. I told him from the first day we met that he must 'clean' his forest floors regardless of what his bosses, the environmentalists, DEMAND of him. Must also do burns and cut fire stoppers," Trump said in an early-morning missive on Twitter.
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