{"id":2388492,"date":"2025-01-09T17:31:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T22:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-blames-la-fires-on-3-inch-fish-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T17:33:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T22:33:58","slug":"trump-blames-la-fires-on-3-inch-fish-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-blames-la-fires-on-3-inch-fish-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump blames LA fires on 3-inch fish &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-blames-la-fires-on-3-inch-fish-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2388492&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the \u2062renewed conflict between \u200dPresident-elect Donald Trump\u2064 and California Governor \u2064Gavin Newsom amidst California&#8217;s devastating wildfires, which are\u2062 projected to result \u200cin over $50 billion in damages. Trump has criticized Newsom&#8217;s management of \u2063state resources, particularly relating to water policies that prioritize \u2063the protection \u2062of the endangered delta smelt, a small fish species.\u2064 Trump argues that\u200b these <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">conservation rules hindered emergency \u200cresponders\u2019 efforts<\/a> to manage the wildfires effectively. He voiced his frustration on social media, claiming that newsom&#8217;s actions\u200b have led to catastrophic consequences for California, calling for his \u200dresignation and highlighting\u2064 the tragic impact \u200don the state&#8217;s environment.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump vs. Newsom: Why the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-kelly-same-people-criticizing-trump-peddled-russia-collusion-hoax\/\" title=\"Mike Kelly: Same People Criticizing Trump Peddled Russia Collusion Hoax\">president-elect<\/a> is blaming wildfires on 3-inch endangered fish<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1930835\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> has reignited a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-tried-to-find-people-in-wyoming-who-like-liz-cheney-it-didnt-go-well\/\" title=\"CNN Tried To Find People In Wyoming Who Like Liz Cheney. It Didn\u2019t Go Well\">long-standing feud<\/a> with Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/gavin-newsom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Gavin Newsom<\/a> (D-CA) as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">California<\/a> grapples with the costliest wildfire in history.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Government officials estimated the Los Angeles fires would cause more than $50 billion in total damages, with Republicans saying California&rsquo;s water management policies prevented emergency responders from containing the blaze.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3220465\/what-trump-promised-day-one-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>WHAT TRUMP HAS PROMISED TO DO ON DAY 1 IN THE OVAL OFFICE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At its heart, Trump&rsquo;s criticism centers on Newsom&rsquo;s general management of state resources, specifically conservational rules aimed at protecting the delta smelt, an endangered, 3-inch fish native to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/environmentalism-obsessed-la-doesnt-have-enough-water-to-fight-fire-effectively\/\" title=\"Environmentalism-Obsessed LA Doesn&#039;t Have Enough Water to Fight Fire Effectively\">water restoration declaration put<\/a> before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way,&rdquo; the president-elect wrote Wednesday on Truth Social. &ldquo;He wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt, by giving it less water (it didn&rsquo;t work!), but didn&rsquo;t care about the people of California. Now the ultimate price is being paid.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;One of the best and most beautiful parts of the United States of America is burning down to the ground,&rdquo; Trump added in a second post. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s ashes, and Gavin Newscum should resign. This is all his fault!!!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3226193\/which-biden-executive-orders-first-to-go-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>HERE&rsquo;S WHICH BIDEN EXECUTIVE ORDERS WILL BE THE FIRST TO GO UNDER TRUMP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Newsom&rsquo;s office denied Trump&rsquo;s claims, saying they were &ldquo;pure fiction.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There is no such document as the water restoration declaration &mdash; that is pure fiction,&rdquo;  Izzy Gardon, Newsom&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-knows-he-messed-up-on-fracking-at-debate-and-is-now-doing-damage-control-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\">communications director<\/a>, said in a statement. &ldquo;The governor is focused on protecting people, not playing politics, and making sure firefighters have all the resources they need.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This isn&rsquo;t the first time Trump used the smelt as an avenue to attack California&rsquo;s Democratic leadership. He began targeting California&rsquo;s smelt protections during his 2016 campaign in an apparent bid to woo Republican voters. Those attacks mirrored similar overtures made by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) during his 2016 campaign and former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) during her vice presidential bid in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also signed a presidential memorandum aimed at skirting California&rsquo;s environmental protections to funnel&nbsp;water toward the state&rsquo;s farmers, which produce roughly 40% of the nation&rsquo;s agricultural products. Newsom went on to challenge that direction in the courts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3242203\/what-items-affected-trump-tariffs-canada-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>WHICH ITEMS WOULD BE AFFECTED BY TRUMP&rsquo;S PROPOSED TARIFFS ON CANADA AND MEXICO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Sacramento County court eventually backed Newsom&rsquo;s arguments in the spring of last year, stating the State Water Resources Control Board&rsquo;s plans to maintain smelt populations.<\/p>\n<p>The matter even surfaced on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">2024<\/a>&nbsp;campaign trail. In September, Trump said at a Los Angeles press conference that if Newsom didn&rsquo;t loosen regulations capping the amount of water that can be pumped out of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, he would cut federal aid to help California tackle wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Gavin Newscum is gonna sign those papers, and if he doesn&rsquo;t sign those papers, we won&rsquo;t give him money to put out his fires,&rdquo; he said at the time. &ldquo;If we don&rsquo;t give him money to put out his fires, he&rsquo;s got problems.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>California officials maintain that unusually high winds are to blame for the severity of this week&rsquo;s fires, not the state&rsquo;s water rules. However, emergency responders temporarily exhausted their water supply while fighting the blaze earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A firefight with multiple fire hydrants drawing water from the system for several hours is unsustainable. This is a known fact,&rdquo; Los Angeles County Public Works Director Mark Pestrella said at a press conference Wednesday. &ldquo;I would ask that you turn off your water and turn off your gas, both things, before you leave the residence so that we can continue to have that water supply for the hydrant system.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1930835\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1930835\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump blames Newsom for wildfires, citing endangered fish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2388493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/trump-smelt.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13784,14322,48229,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2388492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-climate-change","tag-fish","tag-la-fires","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/trump-smelt.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2388492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388496,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388492\/revisions\/2388496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2388493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2388492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2388492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}