President-elect Donald Trump is blaming Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) for the mass destruction caused by fires tearing through Los Angeles — an escalation in the pair’s water wars.
“One of the best and most beautiful parts of the United States of America is burning down to the ground. It’s ashes, and Gavin Newscum should resign,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “This is all his fault!!!”
As of Friday afternoon, at least 10 people are dead, and more than 30,000 acres of land have burned since the start of the wildfires on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, Trump blasted Newsom for refusing to sign the water restoration declaration — a reference to a 2020 memorandum the president-elect signed while on the campaign trail. Trump made the memorandum as an
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