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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is facing intense scrutiny over allegations that her team deliberately edited out tough questions from press conference videos posted on her official Facebook page.
As reported by The Independent Journal Review, these pressers, meant to address the devastating wildfires that scorched over 57,000 acres and claimed 29 lives in early January, were reportedly sanitized to avoid showing reporters grilling the mayor over her handling of the crisis.
While the County of Los Angeles’ Facebook page posted full, unedited versions of these press briefings, Bass’ version suspiciously omitted key exchanges.
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For instance, during a January 9 press conference, a reporter bluntly asked Bass about growing calls for her resignation. That moment was included in the county’s livestream but mysteriously absent from the version posted to the mayor’s page.
Bass, seemingly irritated by the tough questioning, responded in the county’s unedited footage by saying:
“And let me just say, because I’ve answered some questions like that in the morning and let me just state now. Number one, these fires are burning now. Our job is to make sure that people stay alive, that we save lives, that we save homes, that we save property and I also said when the fires are out, we will do a deep dive. We will look at what worked, we will look at what didn’t work and we will let you know. Until then, my focus is on the TV screens behind you that are showing devastation that has continued. Thank you, answered it in the morning, answered it now, won’t answer it again.”
However, Bass’ Facebook page cut nearly the entire Q&A segment, instead focusing only on scripted statements from politicians and officials. Even at the end of the video, where a reporter began asking a question about fire prevention strategies, the stream was abruptly cut before Bass could respond.
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The January 8 and January 10 press conferences also saw similar selective editing.
The uncut county versions reveal that Bass dodged questions about dry fire hydrants, the resources available to the Los Angeles Fire Department, and even her decision to jet off to Ghana for an inauguration while her city burned.
When Sky News reporter David Blevins pressed her on whether she owed Angelenos an apology, she refused to answer.
During her mayoral campaign, Bass assured voters in an interview with The New York Times that she would not take international trips while in office. Fast forward to 2025, and she’s already breaking that pledge, trying to spin her absence as part of an ongoing “investigation” into the fires.
Bass also struggled to address another major blunder—Los Angeles’ deeply flawed emergency alert system. Residents were left in a panic after receiving false evacuation orders, yet the mayor was unwilling to take direct responsibility.
“What are you doing at this point to earn back people’s trust and to make sure these mistakes don’t happen again?” a CBS News reporter asked. Bass deflected, saying she was prioritizing recovery efforts and moving forward.
One issue she did address head-on, however, was the firing of former Fire Chief Kristen Crowley, whose focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives took precedence over, well, actual firefighting.
Crowley had championed an internal “racial equity plan” for the department, arguing that a fire response team is somehow stronger when it’s built around identity politics rather than emergency preparedness.
Meanwhile, under her watch, fire hydrants ran dry, neighborhoods were incinerated, and resources were stretched beyond capacity.
To make matters worse, an analysis from OpenTheBooks, a government watchdog, exposed that Los Angeles lacked the necessary funding to maintain its hydrants, despite city officials enjoying sky-high taxpayer-funded salaries.
As outrage grows, Bass’ approval ratings are plummeting.
A Madison McQueen poll from January 27 found that 54% of Angelenos disapproved of her handling of the crisis, while only 37% supported her. Even more striking, 43% of likely voters said they would consider voting for a Republican—a significant shift in the deep-blue city.
Meanwhile, Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom is begging the federal government for nearly $40 billion in aid, using the fires as justification for yet another massive spending request.
Ironically, back in 2020, he pleaded with then-President Trump to combat so-called “misinformation” about the state’s wildfire response—because nothing says transparency like silencing critics while Californians lose their homes.
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