Gavin Newsom Offers Blunt Reality Check On Who’s Really ‘Defending Insurrectionists’
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is responding to MAGA’s gaslighting with a big ol’ fire extinguisher.
On Tuesday, the California Democrat offered White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller a harsh dose of reality after the top aide got riled up over Newsom’s call for the National Guard to withdraw.
Newsom announced on social media Sunday that he had formally requested that the Trump administration rescind its “unlawful” deployment of troops in Los Angeles County, saying the community “didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved.”
“‘Didn’t have a problem’?” Miller raged on X in response, launching into a wildly racist description of California.
“Your state is a criminal sanctuary for millions of illegal alien invaders, cartel killers, foreign terrorists, transnational gangs and insurrectionist mobs,” Miller claimed. “Huge swaths of the city where I was born now resemble failed third world nations.”
After spewing off some more MAGA-approved propaganda about the situation, Miller concluded by criticizing Newsom.
“You still refuse to arrest and prosecute the arsonists, seditionists and insurrectionists,” Miller wrote. “This Administration is fighting to save the city and the citizens you have left to struggle and suffer.”
Newsom naturally zeroed in on Miller’s use of the word “insurrectionists,” considering that Miller’s boss, President Donald Trump, issued pardons on the first day of his second term for over 1,500 people who were convicted for their roles in the violent Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, and aimed to overturn the results of a U.S. election.
“The only people defending insurrectionists are you and @realDonaldTrump,” Newsom shot back on X Tuesday. “Or, are we pretending like you didn’t pardon 1500 of them?”
Although the anti-deportation protests are ongoing, the 700 Marines sent to Los Angeles on Monday had not been sent to any demonstrations as of Tuesday morning, The Associated Press reported. Local officials have also repeatedly said that the situation on the ground does not warrant the Trump administration’s reaction, with Los Angeles’ police chief noting that the military presence makes it harder for authorities to handle the protests safely.
Newsom even filed for an emergency order to block Trump and the Department of Defense against the “unlawful militarization of Los Angeles” on Tuesday.
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