Real estate mogul tells Californians to ‘revolt and protest’ against Democrats who could have prevented the fire disaster

Grant Cardone built his real estate legacy coast to coast, but the outspoken business leader is angry at California’s Democratic leadership for not acting sooner to prevent catastrophic wildfire damage after his Malibu home collapsed in flames.

“You cut budgets when you should have increased them. You said you were ready but you weren’t. You were wrong on both counts. Hold yourselves accountable and step aside,” Cardone told Fox News Digital on Thursday.

“My message to California – revolution and protest. Demand that those in power be held accountable.”

Cardone allegedly owns one of the remaining homes on Carbon Beach, which recently fell victim to the five wildfires sweeping through the Los Angeles area. At least five people were killed and killed More than 29,000 acres are still burning As of early Thursday, according to Cal Fire.

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While Gov. Gavin Newsom is on the ground surveying the state’s disaster response, Cardone echoes the calls made Recently by President-elect Trump That Newsom should resign “immediately” because of “gross incompetence.”

He told Fox Digital that he wants Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to resign as soon as possible as well.

“I’ve lived there 35 years in that area. For years I’ve said this is a powder keg waiting to explode… There are hundreds of billions of dollars in damage throughout California that could have been prevented if California had really set its priorities,” Cardone said in addition. In addition, during his appearance on the “Mornings with Maria” program.

He continued: “This is a corrupt government that relies on the federal government in emergencies. They make more money in emergencies than they do just planning their budget.” “They said we have plenty of water, but we don’t have pressure. If they didn’t spend $12 billion on high-speed rail to go to Vegas or wherever, you would have that money to bury electricity and provide pressure.” To all (water) taps.”

Cardone further criticized: “It’s a mismanagement of priorities. The state of California, for the last 25 years, has been more concerned with the agendas of weird fringe groups than with the people of California… Perhaps this will be the case, when the people of California have finally had enough and start… In voting for conservative or common-sense politicians or business people in government to manage their budgets.

Initial estimates put damage costs at around $52 billion, making this a possibility, FOX Weather reported The most expensive wildfire event In the history of the United States.

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City government data also shows that for fiscal year 2023-2024, Los Angeles has budgeted $837 million for the Los Angeles Fire Department, which represents about 65% of the size of its $1.3 billion homeless budget. An analysis by the Los Angeles city comptroller last year concluded that nearly half of the homelessness budget went unspent.

Cardone responded: “Elon Musk is trying to go to Mars, and we can’t get the pressure and water to the taps? We have plenty of water. We’re in the Pacific Ocean.” “They’re going to try to turn this into a global warming agenda… This was just mismanagement, a lack of priorities, and the government trying to pander to fringe groups and support these weird agendas instead of the things that really matter to California.” the people.”

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Fox News staff members Chris Oberholtz of FOX Weather and Breck Dumas of FOX Business contributed to this report.