California Governor Gavin Newsom has formally requested Trump administration officials to rescind the order to deploy the National Guard and return control of the force to California, calling the initial order unlawful and “intentionally designed to inflame the situation.”
“I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops in Los Angeles county and return them to my command,” Newsom wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved. This is a serious breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed. Rescind the order. Return control to California.”
Yeah okay. Like a strongly worded letter is gonna do anything?
Gavin: Just fly to DC and physically smack Trump around. You’re in way better shape than he is, you’re guaranteed to win.
Strongly worded letters are all the current Dems are good at.
I’m assuming that he’s just creating a paper trail for when things inevitably escalate. If this is all he’s got, though, it’s pretty weak.
The best Newsom is going to be able to do is pull trump onto his podcast and “have a conversation with him” where he makes more steps to the right to hopefully nab some more “principled Republican” voters.
I appreciate that