I do not often agree with the present governor of California, Gavin Newsom … in fact I am having difficulty recalling if I have ever agreed with him. But today I am agreeing with what he said on 1/8/25, when California Gov. Gavin Newsom accused President-elect Donald Trump of politicizing the ongoing wildfire crisis after the incoming president blamed his leadership for the fires currently raging through the Los Angeles area.
Speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday, 1/8, Newsom said: “Kids have lost their schools. Communities have lost their churches. Families have lost their homes. Some have even lost their lives. And the president-elect’s response is to politicize it.”
Memo to President-elect Trump: “Now is not the time to throw stones! It doesn’t matter whether your contention about who is at fault or partially at fault is true or not … Now is not the time.”
From the Epoch Times:
Newsom’s comments were made in reply to Trump’s comments on Wednesday that Newsom had refused to sign a water restoration plan “that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the north” to flow into other parts of the Golden State, including those currently impacted by the fires.
Trump criticized what he described as “gross incompetence and mismanagement” by the state and federal government in a series of posts on Truth Social.
There has been an ongoing debate about whether California should divert some water to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and San Francisco Bay to protect smelt and other fish or instead send it to Central Valley farmers and Southern California cities.
Trump, who has championed diverting the water to farmers and residents in those areas, has repeatedly clashed with Newsom over the issue.
All of the finger-pointing has just started, however, with the risk of unnecessarily repeating myself, I say to DJT, … “Now is not the time!”
1/11/25