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WASHINGTON | AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s misdirection on Calif fires, climate

WASHINGTON— President Donald Trump is going too far in assigning most of the blame for California’s devastating wildfires on the state’s forest management.

In comments over the weekend, he called forest management a “big problem” and suggested that California officials needed to do a much better job. But most of California’s 33 million acres of forests are under federal or private control, not…