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'He is the blame for this': Trump points finger at Newsom for wildfires with disputed evidence

  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -24% Negative

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-31% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Late Wednesday after meeting with Republican senators on Capitol Hill, Trump continued to blame Newsom but he said he worked well with the governor when he was in the White House and that the two will have to work together to rebuild the damage.
40% : They send millions and millions of gallons of water out to the Pacific Ocean way up north -- never even gets close to here," Trump said during a press conference at his golf course in Los Angeles in September.
28% : "So what's happened is a tragedy, and the governor has not done a good job," Trump told reporters.
20% : However, new federal and state regulations limit the amount of water pumped from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in order to protect the endangered smelt fish, which Trump claimed would have prevented the wildfires.
18% : "He is the blame for this," Trump wrote about Newsom on his social media platform Truth Social on Wednesday.
6% : Throughout the day, Trump continued to criticize Newsom and Biden, pushing unfounded statements about how the Federal Emergency Management Agency does not have money to provide assistance to Californians.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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