Today we're going to talk about how Trump and Republicans exploit the California wildfires

to open up a fire hose of disinformation. And I've got two interviews. I sit down with the California

fire marshal, Chief Daniel Berlant, to discuss the state of the fires right now, what went wrong

and what we can fix moving forward. And I interview Fox LA's Alex Michelson to discuss his

nonstop coverage of the fires and his response to the

disinformation plaguing our media. I'm Brian Taylor Cohen and you're listening to No Lie.

So you all know this starting on Tuesday, fires broke out across Los Angeles. Trump and

Republicans have used this opportunity since the literal first day of the fires to spread lies that

California officials have had to use their time that should have been spent focusing on relief

efforts to instead correct the record from these grown-ass adults who should know better, and

yet are so committed to the bit of being partisan hacks that this is where they're expanding

their energy.

For instance, Elon Musk took to Twitter to amplify a claim that looting had been decriminalized,

all because he wanted to make Gavin Newsom look bad. Now, that's not true. Luding has not been decriminalized, and Newsom had to take time out of his day when he clearly had more important

things to be doing and write,

stop encouraging looting by lying and telling people is decriminalized. It's not.

Like, this is what the governor of a state that is currently on fire had to do in response

to the richest man in the world, the shadow president, who decided that that was the news

he had to amplify to people.

Basically, a green light to looters all to score some cheap political point.

Jesse Waters and other media figures on the right are claiming that the reason that the

fires are raging in the first place is because Los Angeles's fire chief is a lesbian.

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