MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Friday blamed the Los Angeles “hellscape” wildfires on slashed infrastructure spending — as he ripped the “complete failure of government to protect” residents.
“We don’t know the exact causes for the complete failure of government to be able to protect these homes,” the lefty anchor told viewers Friday morning.
“I don’t think we can say it’s the smelt alone. We don’t know what it is. But I do think it is going to be like Hurricane Katrina,” he continued.
“I mean, the infrastructure has been slashed.”
Both California Gov. Gavin Newsom and local government officials, like Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, have been scorched repeatedly this week for alleged mismanagement that may have worsened the devastation currently wreaking havoc on the region.
“You can’t just say it is [LA mayor] Karen Bass. You can’t just say it is [Governor] Gavin Newsom. This has been a trend for 30 years,” Scarborough argued.
His reaction came, too, as reports emerged that fire hydrants in Los Angeles had run dry and left firefighters helpless as countless homes burned down.
“The longer we get into this, the more I think about how New Orleans didn’t invest in their levee system, how they didn’t invest in critical infrastructure, and people died because of it. It’s just hard to hear people say in one of the richest cities in the world say ‘Oh, we don’t have enough water to protect people’s homes’.”