President Donald Trump keeps telling a story about how he sent fire-plagued Los Angeles the critical water he says California’s leaders foolishly refused to provide. But the story, which Trump delivered in an especially colorful form at the White House on Thursday, is not true. The 2 billion-plus gallons of water Trump had released from two dams in California’s Central Valley agricultural hub in late January and early February did not actually go to Los Angeles. In reality, the water was directed to a dry lake basin elsewhere in the Central Valley – more than 100 miles north of Los Angeles.

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