'How Dumb Can You Be?' Lara Trump's Claim On Fox News Leaves Critics Fuming
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Donald Trump's daughter-in-law leaned in to climate denialism amid historic winter fires in California.
Lara Trump reacted to the devastating Los Angeles wildfires on Fox News Monday with political attacks and climate denialism, infuriating critics on social media.
“These people cannot help themselves,” President-elect Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law said of Democrats. “You just referenced how no one wants to take any blame for anything in California. Instead, they are blaming climate change.”
“I would really love for someone out there to explain to me how climate change is the reason that the reservoirs were dry, that there was no water in the fire hydrants,” she added.
As she spoke, Fox News displayed a chyron that read, “Liberal jurisdictions double down on climate alarmism.”
California’s reservoirs were not dry, though firefighters did encounter issues with water supply to hydrants due to high demand. The catastrophic wildfires, driven by intense winds and tinder-dry conditions, erupted after a critically dry period — Los Angeles recorded just 0.8 mm of rain from July 1 to January. As California suffered through one of its hottest summers on record, vegetation that had proliferated during an intensely wet spell dried out to create an abundance of kindling.
