Lie August 20, 2020 · Speech · Environment
“I see again, the forest fires are starting. They're starting again in California. I said, 'You got to clean your floors. You got to clean your forests.' They have many, many years of leaves and broken trees. And they're like, so flammable. You touch them and it goes up. I've been telling them this now for three years, but they don't want to listen....We say, 'You got to get rid of the leaves. You got to get rid of the debris. You got to get rid of the fallen trees.' You know when a tree falls, after 13 to 14 months, it becomes extremely dry. You look at some of these fires, they don't really catch where the trees are growing because they're wet. The water's pouring up the tree. And they just don't want to listen. They mocked us when I said that you got to clean your floors, just an expression. Clean the floors. And they have many, many years, decades of leaves, dry leaves.”
- Said
- August 20, 2020
- Where
- Speech
- Verdict
- Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
- Topic
- Environment
- Repeated
- 29 times in the Post’s database
- Source
- Washington Post claims database (claim ID 20985)