Defensive Newsom Struggles in Train Wreck Interview Over LA Fire Response Failures

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California Governor Gavin Newsom’s (D) attempt to restore his public image and control the narrative following his administration’s disastrous response to the Los Angeles wildfires backfired spectacularly during a Sunday interview.

During an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Newsom appeared defensive, erratic, and stammering with gesticulating mannerisms when pressed on the state’s poor emergency response to the fires and policy decisions that led to drained reservoirs and slashed fire department budgets.

First, Newsom was caught red-handed in a lie that the reservoirs in Southern California were full at the time the fires started and said to claim otherwise was “disinformation.”

But NBC News Correspondent Jacob Soboroff called him out: “We do know though from reporting here locally that that one reservoir that serves the Palisades was not full.”

Newsom responded, “And that’s exactly what triggered my desire to get the investigation to understand what was happening with that local reservoir. That was not a state system reservoir.”

The Democrat governor also tried to shift the blame to President-elect Donald Trump for criticizing his leadership.

“I don’t know what he’s referring to when he talks about the Delta smelt, and reservoirs. The reservoirs are completely full, the state reservoirs here. That mis- and disinformation I don’t think advantages or aids any of us,” he said.

Newsom stumbled with a Kamala-like word salad when asked if the “buck stopped with him” as governor.

“I mean, you’re the governor of California, you (unintelligible) the mayor of California. We’re all better off, we’re all better off, we’re all better off, and working together to take care of people,” he said.

“We’re empathetic and we’re here not just in the immediacy of the crisis, but we’re here after the crisis. As opposed to creating a crisis in the middle of this by trying to divide people and play political- take political cheap shots,” he added.

This comes after it was reported that Newsom cut the state’s fire budget by $100 million in 2024.

The California fires, which have so far destroyed over 10,000 buildings in the LA area, are still not contained.

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