Rick Caruso And Bill Maher Agree: Trump Was Right About California Fires

Liberal comedian Bill Maher and former Los Angeles Democratic Mayoral candidate Rick Caruso said on Friday that President-elect Donald Trump was right about the wildfires in California.

The two made the remarks during Maher’s HBO show “Real Time” while discussing how Caruso would have handled the catastrophic fires that have caused tens of billions of dollars worth of damage.

“To know there’s a fire coming, to know you’re in fire season,” Caruso said. “We had a fire three weeks ago in Malibu. Six years ago we had a fire in Brentwood, and for those that don’t know the Brentwood area, it’s 15 minutes from where the Palisades Fire was. There’s 40-year-old vegetation between Brentwood and the Palisades, and at that time, I said, ‘If that fire travels, it’s gonna come through and wipe out the Palisades.'”

“I’m so sad that I was right,” he added. “It was predictable, Bill. And what’s predictable is preventable.”

“And then on top of it, to have a main reservoir out of service during peak fire season. I mean, that’s border negligence,” he continued. “And so we’ve got to get to the backstory of this, but you’ve gotta make good business decisions. Running this city is running a business for the benefit of the residents and what everybody should have been saying, ‘We had all the alerts about the firestorm coming in or the winds coming in … why wasn’t more done?'”

Maher interjected: “I remember when we had a fire when Trump was president, and he came in and he said, ‘You don’t rake, you’re not raking.’ And I did — we all did jokes about it. But, we’ve got to get over this thing.”

“Is he wrong, usually? Yeah,” Maher said. “But I’m not going to — I remember when he took Ivermectin or something and then Ivermectin, which won the Nobel Prize, and it was like that became snake oil. No, just because Trump says it doesn’t mean it’s automatically wrong. Did he have a point about that?”

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“Of course he did,” Caruso said.

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