Former President Donald Trump and MAGA allies falsely blamed California Governor Gavin Newsom and diversity policies for the deadly Los Angeles County wildfires, ignoring the consensus among experts that climate change is the primary driver of these extreme weather events. Trump made baseless accusations on Truth Social, while Elon Musk amplified racist and antisemitic posts on X. Critics condemned the spread of disinformation and warned of the dangers of ignoring climate science in the face of increasingly frequent and severe disasters.
Progressive critics were left shaking their heads this week as Republican U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and his MAGA allies absurdly blamed the Los Angeles County wildfires on everything from an ichthyophile governor to diversity policies—while ignoring what experts say is the true cause of the deadly infernos. On Wednesday, Trump took to his Truth social media platform to falsely accuse Democratic California Gov.
Meanwhile, MAGA acolyte and soon-to-be Department of Government Efficiency co-leader Elon Musk used his X social media network—formerly Twitter—to amplify racist posts disparaging Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, an antisemitic diatribe by defamatory conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, implicitly sexist and homophobic attacks on Los Angeles' fire chief, and his own frequent aspersions of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.
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