Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) said Tuesday on MSNBC's “All In” that President-elect Donald Trump's “crazy fantasies” about California's water system are “what are the facts, what are the truths?” “This is damaging the very foundation of the concept of ”
Host Jen Psaki said: “How damaging would it be for someone in such a position to become president of the United States next week to be spreading inaccurate information about the worst wildfires in American history?” spoke.
“Firefighters went to him and they had tears in their eyes and were comforting him after they saw Joe Biden,” Newsom said. I think that will be a model for the next president. What I don't think is helpful or beneficial is a set of consciousness that state water projects are somehow – we have reservoirs at or near historic highs, full and completely filled – what the heck. It's a wild fantasy that for some reason there might be a magic spout there. In Northern California, all you have to do is turn on the power and suddenly it's raining and water is flowing everywhere. That doesn't help. It undermines the very basis of the concept of what facts are and what truth is. ”
He added, “And that fact of asymmetry is serious and consequential, and, let's be frank, it's been amplified by people like Elon Musk. And that one-two punch is real. This fire… It's not just a hurricane of misinformation and disinformation. This is serious. And they want to take us to California Derangement Syndrome. I've been living with that for years and years.”
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