With each passing day, Donald Trump further affirms his quest to become an authoritarian leader, this time by threatening to arrest a sitting governor amid clashes between the state and the federal government.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has been speaking out against the Trump administration’s utilization of the National Guard at immigration protests in Los Angeles. Newsom’s administration is now suing the Trump administration for doing so.
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Amidst the chaos, Trump’s border czar Tom Homan threatened to arrest Newsom for interfering with immigration enforcement efforts by the federal government.
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Trump said Homan should do it.
In a different interview, a reporter asked Trump what crime Newsom committed, and Trump’s answer is chilling: “He ran for governor.”
Despite Newsom’s resolve to stand up to the administration over this issue, he made waves earlier this year for telling MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk that it’s “deeply unfair” to allow transgender female athletes to compete against other girls and women.
Newsom – known as an LGBTQ+ rights pinoeer – also agreed that Trump’s 2024 campaign ad criticizing then-Vice President Kamala Harris’ support of taxpayer-funded gender-affirming surgeries for trans inmates was “devastating” for her presidential bid.
“I think [the trans athlete question is] an issue of fairness, I completely agree with you on that…. it’s deeply unfair,” Newsom told Kirk, the first guest of his new podcast This is Gavin Newsom. “I am not wrestling with the fairness issue. I totally agree with you.”
Later on in Newsom’s discussion with Kirk, Newsom — who famously ordered San Francisco county clerks to issue same-sex marriage licenses in 2004, 11 years before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized the unions nationwide — compared his position on trans athletes to conservatives who oppose same-sex marriage on principle, Politico reported. Newsom praised Kirk and other conservatives for continuing to oppose same-sex marriage despite the widespread legal and social acceptance of such unions.
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