Originally Posted by Bladewire

Trump refused giving federal aid and declaring a state of emergency federal disaster here in California when the Oroville dam burst with 200,000 people displaced.

Trump was mad at our governor for calling him a fraud during the election. Trump also tried to Leverage California dropping its bill to make California a sanctuary state, in return for federal disaster aid for the breached dam.

The governor had to write two letters and pull many strings over many days to finally get Trump to release federal support, which California pays to the feds in hundreds of millions of dollars surplus a year.