California firefighters are clapping back at President Donald Trump for comments he made in a tweet Saturday morning threatening to pull federal funding for California wildfire relief as another devastating round of blazes ravage the state.
In his first comments since California’s most recent fires sparked, Trump once again cited what he called “gross mismanagement” of the state’s forests as the reason for “these massive, deadly and costly” fires. The president had previously made similar statements in October about discontinuing federal financial relief to the fire-beleaguered state, according to a report in The Bee.
Brian Rice, the California Professional Firefighters president, released a statement Saturday afternoon chiding the president for what he called a “shameful attack on California” and for shifting attention from what is really important. …
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