WATCH: Jennifer Siebel Newsom Gets Flustered When Asked If DOJ Probe Started During Biden Admin

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) wife was briefly left speechless when asked about the US Department of Justice probe into her and her husband’s finances.

In her first interview on the DOJ probe, Jennifer Siebel Newsom told MS NOW’s Stephanie Ruhle on Money, Power, Politics with Stephanie Ruhle, that the investigation is a “fishing expedition.”

“I mean, this is typical Trump fashion. Go after your enemies. And so you’d have to ask the DOJ,” she said, before plugging her latest documentary.

But Siebel Newsom wasn’t as smooth when asked about reports that the DOJ investigation began under former President Joe Biden’s administration.

There was about six seconds of silence as Siebel Newsom simply blinked several times, before responding:

STEPHANIE RUHLE: The Trump administration has been using the Department of Justice. It’s no surprise to launch investigations and prosecutions of people that the president sees as his political opponents.

But is it true that this investigation started during the Biden administration?

JENNIFER SIEBEL NEWSOM: You know, I don’t know the details.

I do know that, you know, Trump was coming after my husband when back when Biden was, was president and Biden was running for the presidency.

And I thought it was ironic. So, look, I this is, this is a fishing expedition. And I think what you’re saying is that it’s just been going on for a long time.

My husband is Trump’s most outspoken critic, and he’s the GOP’s biggest you know, I don’t know. They’ve always targeted my husband.

And whether it’s the GOP themselves or, you know, their media empire with Rupert Murdoch and the like, we’re just, you know, kind of sitting ducks in that regard because they think that my husband’s aspiring for the presidency and they want to silence him, and therefore they go after his wife and those close to him.

Federal prosecutors in Sacramento opened a probe of former Gavin Newsom aide Dana Williamson last year, under the Biden administration, but the governor was not implicated in that investigation. Williamson pleaded guilty to fraud and other charges in May.

Watch above via MS NOW.

Jason Cohen contributed to this report.

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