Column: A president who won't tell the truth about California may unfairly punish the state

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : "I think we would've won the state of California," Trump told supporters at a post-inauguration celebration, "if the state had stronger voter identification laws."
42% : Counties are responsible for tabulating ballots, but get nothing from Sacramento for that responsibility.
36% : (He also reiterated his demand that California change its water policies, but maybe that's been solved by the troops Trump supposedly sent to turn on the water flow from the Pacific Northwest.
32% : That leaves us -- let's quickly do the math -- millions and millions shy of the supposedly fraudulent votes that tipped California away from Trump.
31% : "For eight years, Trump has cried wolf, pushing claims attacking the integrity of California's elections," Sen. Alex Padilla, the state's former elections chief, said in an email.
27% : In November, Trump won back the White House, but still lost California by nearly 3.2 million votes.
25% : Another assertion that's not remotely grounded in reality, but Trump's gonna Trump.
23% : There is so much wrong with those kinds of threats, including the fact they're morally reprehensible and utterly without precedent in the American annals of natural disaster -- that is, until Trump came along.
16% : Donald Trump lost the state by a whopping 4.2 million votes in 2016.
13% : There's also a great deal that Trump, Johnson and their California-bashing allies get wrong about the integrity of the state's election system.
10% : Voter ID legislation to remedy what Trump falsely described as "a very corrupt" state election system.

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