AP FACT CHECK: Wildfire, water experts rebut Trump's claims
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August 8, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is claiming that California's water policy is shortchanging firefighters of water to battle the state's raging wildfires. That's not so, according to wildfire and water experts.
A look at his tweets and the facts behind them:
TRUMP: "California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren't allowing massive amount of readily available water to be properly utilized. It is being diverted into the Pacific Ocean. Must also tree clear to stop fire spreading!" — tweet Sunday.
THE FACTS: That's not what state expe...
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