Gavin Newsom Hits Back at Elon Musk With Clip of Firefighters Exposing His ‘Lies’

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Gavin Newsom Hits Back at Elon Musk With Clip of Firefighters Exposing His ‘Lies’

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has taken to X to share what he believes is a gotcha clip of

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being “exposed” for lying about the

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wildfires.

The MAGA billionaire, along with

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, has been a vocal critic of the governor’s response to the crisis. Trump even dubbed him “Gavin

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Newsom had sensibly refused to get drawn into the war of words, saying he “respect the office” of the incoming president. But, taking to X on Sunday evening, he tagged the company’s owner and said he had been “exposed by firefighters for his own lies.”

He added a clip of a livestream led by Musk in which the tech mogul speaks to a member of the L.A. fire command team inside the response HQ. It came as Musk was in the Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades neighborhood to

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Cybertrucks fitted with SpaceX satellite internet terminals to ensure connectivity in the area.

But during the private briefing with the firefighter, Musk appeared to have designs on confirming his

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about water shortages. However, when the X chief quizzed the firefighter on whether the Palisades had run out of water, he didn’t get the answer he seemed to be looking for.

“Was water available? I understand that wasn’t an issue in Malibu, is that correct?” he asked. But the firefighter responded, “There was water, we have water reservoirs.”

“Just an example, if we have one building burning, we can flow 1,000 gallons a minute on that one building,” he went on. “The amount of water we’re flowing, there really is no water system that’s gonna keep that pace, so we have to bring in water tenders, which are these big water tanks, you know, 2,500- to 3,000-gallon trucks, and they’ll come in, and that’s what we have to do to compensate.”

Musk awkwardly ending the livestream. / Elon Musk / X

The firefighter added: “DWP (Los Angeles Department of Water and Power) did a great job, they brought in big trucks for us and we used them as, basically, mobile hydrants.”

Musk, who had

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“bad governance at the state and local level that resulted in a shortage of water,” then repeated his question. “Correct me if I’m wrong, but in Malibu there was no shortage of water, in the Palisades there was a shortage of water at a certain point, or is that not accurate?” he said.

“Well, we were flowing an amount of water that the system couldn’t… it was overbearing,” the firefighter responded.

Musk, looking forlorn, stopped the stream with a final unflattering low-angle shot of his disappointed-looking face. “OK. All right. Sounds good,” he said awkwardly.

The answer he got didn’t tally up with Musk’s campaign against the wildfire response. Musk has been

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much of the criticism from Trump, who

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that Newsom “wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt, by giving it less water (it didn’t work!)” and “he is the blame for this.”

A view of flames at the mountain as seen from Topanga Canyon near Pacific Palisades in Topanga, Los Angeles, California on January 9, 2025. / Anadolu / Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

Peter Gleick, co-founder of the Pacific Institute—a California research organization that focuses on water—rejected that criticism in a chat with

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noting that Southern California reservoir levels are above normal for this time of year. “There’s no water shortage,” he said. “The real issue is that urban water systems are not built or designed to fight massive, urban wildfires.”

Musk had also essentially blamed Newsom’s “woke politics” for the deadly blazes that have killed at least 24 people, after he reposted a comment by Natalie Danelishen—an administrative assistant at the Free Cities Foundation—who said the governor “could have fixed the fire issue 5 years ago. Now his state burns thanks to his woke politics.”

He also

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with a since deleted post from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones that claimed the fires are part of a “larger globalist plot to wage economic warfare and deindustrialize” the U.S. before “triggering total collapse.” Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Beast.

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