California governor Gavin Newsom hits out at 'delusional' Donald TrumpSource: Pod Save America
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00:00What's the disinformation you were referring to in the letter and what is the correct information?
00:04Well, I mean it like what the president-elect was saying about state water
00:09project and the Delta smelt somehow being culpable somehow
00:14Leading to some of the challenges that we face down here. It's words. It's a salad. It's a form and substance of fog
00:21It's made up
00:22It's delusional and it's a consistent mantra from Trump going back years and years and years
00:29And it's reinforced over and over and over within the right wing
00:33And so it's become gospel and it's so profoundly ignorant and yet he absolutely believes it
00:39It's not an ignorance on his part
00:41It's sort of an indelible misinformation that he sort of a manifested a falsehood and he decided to bring it into this crisis
00:48in a profoundly
00:50Demeaning and damaging way I say demeaning to the facts demeaning to the people that were suffering and struggling to the kids literally
00:58Were watching their schools burned down
01:00I was just talking a staff member who good friend whose house was burned down in his four-year-old as they're driving away
01:07See daddy. Did you get my bunny?
01:09And you know, I got four kids. Yeah, no empathy. No compassion
01:14No capacity to even to understand
01:18Just a guy wants to be understood
01:20That's hard because a lot of people were misled and it's I think led to a lot of finger-pointing consternation
01:27At a time when we're quite literally and I say literally because second before I was here. I just got the latest briefing
01:34We're bringing cadaver dogs out there in some parts of the fire where people are still potentially missing and we've already lost 11 lives