AP FACT CHECK: Wildfire, water experts rebut Trump’s claims
A look at his tweets and the facts behind them:
TRUMP: "
THE FACTS: That's not what state experts say.
"We have plenty of water" for battling the massive blazes burning in hills north of
Nor is having enough water a problem in battling
Trump's claim "is so physically impossible, you don't even really want to respond," Lund said.
For one thing, the wildfires are in the hills, far from the
The state's recently ended five-year drought killed millions of trees, leaving them as brittle fuel for wildfires. As Trump alluded to in his tweet, experts have urged state and federal forestry officials to move quickly in clearing swathes of dead forests because of their added fire danger. The dry, hot weather that climate change brings adds to the dried tinder and risk.
"It might have something to do with forest management and the drought. But it has nothing to do with water policy," Lund said.
TRUMP: "Governor
THE FACTS: Trump is raising an old dispute in
Republican lawmakers in
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