President Trump said it was "the craziest thing I've ever seen" about the claim that protecting the Delta Smelt fish is the reason for holding back water to parts of Southern California as the area has been ravaged by wildfires. | Breitbart

Donald Trump recently made a bizarre claim, blaming the delta smelt—a small, endangered fish native to California—for the wildfires ravaging Southern California. But let’s be clear: this claim is baseless and ignores science.Water used to protect the delta smelt in Northern California is entirely separate from firefighting supplies in Southern California, which come from local aqueducts and groundwater. The real drivers of these wildfires are high winds and climate change, not water mismanagemen