Donald Trump Again Blames “Management” For California Wildfires On Eve Of Visit

Donald Trump Again Blames “Management” For California Wildfires On Eve Of Visit

President Donald Trump says hes going to visit Northern California on Saturday “Just to see the fire..

President Donald Trump says hes going to visit Northern California on Saturday “Just to see the firefighters.”

“Nobodys ever seen whats going on over there, and now theyre saying it could be as many as 600, this just came out before we met, could be as many as 600 people killed – up by 400,” Trump told Fox Newss Chris Wallace in an interview conducted Friday afternoon.

“And burned beyond recognition, they cant even see the bodies, its incredible,” Trump added. (The 600+ figure is actually the number of missing people, according to The Butte County Sheriffs Office).

After getting torched for blaming “forest management” and threatening to pull “federal funding” as wildfires ravaged Northern and Southern California, and backing off that line of tweeting to assume a more Consoler-in-Chief role, Trump returned to his original thought bubble in his sit-down with Wallace, which will air Sunday.

“I was watching the firemen the other day and they were raking areas, they were raking areas where the fire was right over there,” he complained. “And theyre raking trees, little trees like this that are not trees, little bushes that you could see are totally dry. Weeds. And theyre raking them, theyre on fire. That should have been all raked out. You wouldnt have the fires.”

When Wallace asked him about the “argument that its climate change, that its drier, its hotter and that thats contributing to it?” Trump wasnt going there:

“Maybe it contributes a little bit,” he said. “The big problem we have is management. When I was in a certain state, I wont say which, the governor said, You know, weve tested it. We clean out areas and we actually set the fire just to see, we lose almost nothing, we can put it out right away.

“And then we leave areas un-maintained, he said, Well lose 100,000 acres before you even know it.'”

“You need forest management. It has to be,” Trump argued. “Im not saying that in a negative way, a positive — Im just saying the facts. And Ive really learned a lot.”

The interview will air on Fox News Sunday, and will be shown on Fox Broadcasting, as well as Fox News Channel.

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