President-elect Donald Trump accused California Gov. Gavin Newsom of causing a water shortage during the January 2025 wildfires in Los Angeles County by refusing to sign a "water restoration declaration" in order to protect "an essentially worthless fish called a smelt."
Newsom's office said such a document never existed.
It's true that Newsom and the California attorney general sued the Trump administration in 2020 over a water management plan that, according to the state, failed to...
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