Trump claims he kept LA from burning. When much of LA was burning Trump pulled fire-fighting marines.
By Curt_Anderson June 12, 2025 9:42 pm Category: Politics
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...Trump pulled the Marines to deport immigrants.
Trump says LA would be ‘burning to the ground’ if he hadn’t sent in the Marines, National Guard
Much of LA did burn to the ground as a result of the January 2025 Southern California wildfires when Trump reassumed office.
The outgoing Biden Administration's Department of Defense, deployed 500 Marines to assist with firefighting efforts in Los Angeles. While the fires were still burning, incoming President Trump redirected these units to the Southern Border to assist with deportation flights.
The United States Army Corps of Engineers, under the Trump administration, released 2.2 billion gallons of water from federal reservoirs. The Army Corps of Engineers stopped the water release after "elected officials expressed concerns from their constituents about potential flooding of downstream lands".
Trump posted on social media that Governor Newsom had "refused to sign the water restoration declaration" that would have brought water from the North to the South of California. However, Southern California has never received water from those dams, which are over 500 miles north of Los Angeles County. Newsom's press office responded, stating that such a declaration does not exist and is "pure fiction".
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