Gavin Newsom Savages Trump On Fox News Digital In Blistering Commentary On ‘Destroying Our Democracy’
Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) fired a new salvo at President Donald Trump using Fox News Digital as the launchpad, accusing the president of “trying to destroy our democracy” in a blistering new op-ed.
Trump and Newsom are less than friendly on the best of days, but have been locked in an escalating back-and-forth since Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents sparked protests in Los Angeles with a series of raids, after which Trump ordered the deployment of 4,000 National Guard soldiers without consulting the governor.
Their feud included a dispute in which Trump accused Newsom of “lying” about a phone call that appears never to have happened, and which Trump appears to have mistaken for an earlier call. Newsom responded by repeatedly assailing Trump as an unhinged “stone-cold liar.”
But on Tuesday morning, Newsom took the fight to turf with a more Trump-friendly audience, publishing a scathing commentary entitled, “Trump is trying to destroy our democracy. Do not let him,” on Fox News Digital. — increasingly a forum for Democrats to reach an audience they can’t find elsewhere.
Newsom slammed Trump over the troop deployment, and wrote that “His supposed concern for the men and women in uniform is not based on their loyalty to this country and its people, but to him and his cause. What more evidence do we need than January 6 – and his pardons for those involved, including those who violently assaulted police officers that day?”
The governor concluded by accusing Trump of leading an “authoritarian regime”:
Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting the most vulnerable. But they do not stop there. Trump and his loyalists thrive on division because it allows them to consolidate power and exert even greater control. If some of us can be snatched off the streets without a warrant, based only on suspicion or skin color, then none of us are safe.
We are in a perilous moment. We have a sitting president who believes he is bound by no law, including our Constitution. In just over 140 days, he has fired government watchdogs that could hold him accountable for corruption and fraud. He’s declared war on culture, on history, on science, and on knowledge itself. Databases are disappearing, archives are being raided, and universities are being told what they can teach. The judicial branch and the rule of law are under siege. Journalists and news organizations are targets.
Fox News Digital has become a forum for some Democrats to reach an audience they can’t find elsewhere.
