Trump threatens to withhold firefighting funds from California after accusing FEMA of not doing enough

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

7 hours ago


After spending days spreading misinformation about FEMA not helping victims of Hurricane Helene, Donald Trump told rallygoers in California that if elected, he would withhold federal fire-fighting aid to the state in order to get Governor Gavin Newsom to do what he says.

Trumpeting the potential power he would have if re-elected, Trump promised supporters he would make sure Newsom cannot enact environmental protection policies that limit the amount of water Californians can use.

“We’re going to take care of your water situation and we’ll force it down [Gavin Newsom’s] throat and we’ll say, ‘Gavin if you don’t do it we’re not giving you any of that fire money that we send you all the time for all the forest fires that you have’,” Trump said at a rally in Coachella, California on Saturday afternoon. “It’s not hard to do,” he added.

Trump’s promise to withhold emergency federal aid in that instance coincides with his recent tirade of misinformation about the federal agency not doing enough to provide support to victims of hurricanes in North Carolina. The former president falsely accused FEMA of withholding disaster relief to citizens, only giving them $750, but giving “tens of billions of dollars” to foreign countries and migrants.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-firefighting-california-fema-b2628383.html

[Magoo48]

1. Go away. You are the antithesis of the majority here. We don't like you. Just, go away.

[lark]

2. He will kill Democrats every single way he can or his minions can think of.

That is how he spends his time, plotting the revolution and civil war and how he and Putin will change America, bringing it under Putin;s sway publicly, instead of doing it in the dark like he did previously.

[Hieronymus Phact]

3. so he went to California,

...to threaten people with burning in wildfires, if hes elected and the Governor doesn't do as he's told?

[Firestorm49]

4. Sadly for America, the only thing that the orange guy is good at is extracting revenge.

I can only hope that if what’s his name somehow gets the electoral votes to put his sorry ass in office, that our existing governmental infrastructure has a plan to stop him from taking over. Riots? No more than if he loses. There are clouds on the horizon no matter what, so KEEP HIM OUTAT ANY COST.

[Marthe48]

5. Every disaster ruins everyone in its path

When criminal traitor threatens a state because he doesn't like some of the people who live there, his plans of abusing will harm all of the people who live there.

He isn't capable of nuance, just destructive bombast

[walkingman]

6. The guy is a traitor - he needs to be treated as such.

[twodogsbarking]

7. Trump has essentially no chance of winning California. Thus the outrage. Jealous chicken bird.

[4catsmom]

8. I'd love for New some to challenge him to a debate

fat orange coward would stay well away from California

[azureblue]

9. LOL

CA has the fourth largest economy in the world.It sends money to Washington to support red states. It grows the food that feeds the US. And it can say" Ok, the. We're tired of supporting failed red sates so we will not send any more money to DC, and, instead, we will use that money for California. So you can keep you're FEMA money because you won't be getting any more from us."

[iemanja]

10. It's not the first time he has said this

He hates California because they vote Dem.

[Bayard]

11. Who's he kidding?

Gov. Newsom would be in the frontline of trump's firing squad.