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Trump used the deadly California fires to attack state forest management and float the idea of withholding federal money, a response that landed as both cruel and uninformed. The remarks invited immediate backlash because the fires were actively killing people and destroying entire communities. It was a political instinct that managed to make a natural disaster about his favorite hobby: blaming everyone else.
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Trump used the deadly California fires to attack state forest management and float the idea of withholding federal money, a response that landed as both cruel and uninformed. The remarks invited immediate backlash because the fires were actively killing people and destroying entire communities. It was a political instinct that managed to make a natural disaster about his favorite hobby: blaming everyone else.
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Trump used the deadly California fires to attack state forest management and float the idea of withholding federal money, a response that landed as both cruel and uninformed. The remarks invited immediate backlash because the fires were actively killing people and destroying entire communities. It was a political instinct that managed to make a natural disaster about his favorite hobby: blaming everyone else.
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