Explaining the Right: Why are conservatives lying about California’s fires?

At least 10 people have died and thousands of homes and businesses have been destroyed in the Los Angeles-area wildfires over the past week. Despite the chaos playing out on screens across the world, conservatives and Republicans have chosen to go on the attack.

As has often been the case, Donald Trump led the charge.

Trump made up a lie that California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a frequent critic of Trump, refused to sign a “water restoration declaration,” which supposedly limited the availability of water to fight the fires.