Trump's Response To The California Wildfires Isn't Just Inaccurate. It's Dangerous.
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Trump's Response To The California Wildfires Isn't Just Inaccurate. It's Dangerous.

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LOADING ERROR LOADING Saturday morning, as entire California towns were engulfed in flames, the president retreated to Twitter. Instead, he offered an explanation for the wildfires ― California’s “poor forest management” ― and threatened to withhold federal recovery funds. Poor forest management is a nod to logging interests and, for reasons others have pointed out, is not the root cause of California’s year-round wildfire problem. “The president’s comment adds to a long history of denying or misunderstanding the causes of disasters.” In fact, mitigating our risk is an integral part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s first strategic goal in its plan released this year. The president’s tweet about the California wildfires continues his pattern of misleading, obscuring, ignoring or blatantly denying the realities of disasters during his tenure.

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2 days, 9 hours ago
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