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He said he would “revert water up into the hills where you have all the dead forests, where the forests are so brittle” in order to prevent wildfires.

He would be short, could have facial abnormalities, maybe brittle bones and there was a 50% chance that he would be stillborn.

Authoritarian, narcissistic leaders like Trump are profoundly brittle.

The former president said he would “revert water up into the hills where you have all the dead forests, where the forests are so brittle” in order to prevent wildfires.

Rather than being able to literally divert water to an intended source — like a farm or a “brittle” forest — a president can try to influence water allocations more indirectly, like appointing like-minded people to federal agencies to weaken endangered species laws that affect flow, said Sonja Petek, an analyst for the nonpartisan California Legislative Analyst’s Office who focuses on water and wildlife policy.