Trump threatens to withhold aid for fighting California wildfires at rally in Golden State

Donald Trump at his California rally on Saturday threatened to withhold funds for helping to fight wildfires in the state.

Trump over the weekend spoke in the city of Coachella, where he was laying out his vision of problems in the Golden State. At one point during his speech, he said a woman who was protesting and heckling him would get "the hell knocked out of her," causing observers to say he was endorsing violence against women .

After that, he was talking about issues he says farmers have in California when he threatened to withhold aid for fighting the state's forest fires.

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"We'll force it down his throat. And I will say, [California Governor] Gavin [Newsom], if you don't do it, we're not giving you any of that fire money that we send you all the time for all the far... forest fires that you have. It's not too hard to do. We just had so many other things to do. I was working on two Russia hoaxes, I was working on impeachments, I was working on indictments. They went out of their way to keep me busy because they didn't want this to happen."

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