On Wednesday morning, President-elect Trump weighed in on the fires raging through Los Angeles County, blaming California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) for the disaster. Later during Inside Politics, CNN’s Nia-Malika Henderson accused Trump of having “no sense that Californians are Americans” and lacking empathy because of his feuds with “Democrat[s] in general.”
Host Dana Bash first turned to NPR’s Tamara Keith to get to the bottom of Trump’s accusation. However, the reporter offered a weak excuse in response, stating that “trying to explain water politics in California is almost impossible.”
Keith further claimed the “larger issue” was a future president “seemingly trying to start a feud with the governor of a state in the middle of a crisis,” which she boiled down to Santa Ana winds and “it hasn’t rained. It’s been very dry in…
