Trump threatens to withhold aid for California wildfires in first TV interview since inauguration

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : And if you look at it, it all had to do with him," Trump said in a preview clip of the interview.
52% : Trump said that he was clear during the 2024 campaign that he planned to pardon Jan. 6 rioters, and that since he won, it should be no surprise that he followed through with his vow.
52% : But Fox has greatly benefited from Hannity's proximity to Trump and is looking ahead to another term in which their prime-time star has a front-row seat to the Trump presidency.
49% : Such claims were a feature of his campaign, but now Trump is making them from the Oval Office as he moves in the first days of his presidency to swiftly advance his agenda and dismantle his predecessor's. Trump also defended his pardons of almost 1,600 people convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6 effort to overturn the 2020 election, minimizing the violence of the day.
49% : During the interview, Hannity spoke of his 30-year friendship with Trump, recounting how he told him he would be even "bigger" if he came back with nonconsecutive terms after the 2020 election.
44% : Trump also said he was "given the option" of preemptively issuing pardons -- including pardoning himself -- before he left office after his first term.
40% : Los Angeles does not get its water from the northern California systems Trump described, and water experts have repeatedly explained that the scale and severity of the southern California fires was not caused by empty reservoirs or a lack of water flowing from northern California.
38% : Trump told Hannity.
38% : Trump said that he would prefer to put his legislative priorities into a single, massive bill as a way to tamp down on Republican infighting, but he also expressed an openness to breaking it into separate bills.
37% : "Nobody's ever been treated so badly," Trump said.
35% : Trump used the wide-ranging interview with one of his closest friends in TV news to elevate a host of exaggerated claims about immigration and advance attacks against political opponents, including the lawmakers who investigated his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
31% : They were protesting the vote because they knew the election was rigged." Asked about the pardons for people convicted of violence against law enforcement, Trump said that "they were very minor incidents, and it was time.
21% : Trump is scheduled to visit California to review the damage from this month's devastating fires this week, but he said he was not yet sure if he would visit with Newsom while there.
20% : Newsom wrote a letter to Trump earlier this month asking him to come see the devastation firsthand and to meet with firefighters and families affected by the fires.
17% : Trump was repeating a false claim he has repeatedly made that California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-California) and other public officials have refused to allow water from the northern part of the state to flow down into the Los Angeles area.
16% : During the first term, Trump's aides sometimes referred to Hannity as his "unofficial chief of staff," whom Trump turned to when he was frustrated by the advice of his White House aides.
15% : In the meandering interview, Trump also mused about why President Joe Biden did not preemptively pardon himself before he left office.

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