California’s Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom is once again putting politics over public safety and facts.
In a sweeping, hyperbolic opinion piece for Fox News, Newsom launched an unhinged attack on President Donald Trump.
Newsom is accusing his president of tyranny, militarization, racism, and even undermining democracy.
The reason? Federal immigration enforcement and the use of the National Guard to address chaos in the streets of Los Angeles.
But peel back the alarmist rhetoric, and Newsom’s true priorities come into focus: protecting illegal immigrants, undermining federal law, and stoking division ahead of the upcoming election.
“This is not public safety, this is tyranny,” Newsom dramatically claims.
However, he was referring not to violent rioters, but to federal agents conducting immigration raids targeting criminals who are in the U.S. illegally.
Newsom described immigration enforcement actions in Southern California as “indiscriminate.”
He accuses ICE of grabbing people “off the street,” and even arresting a pregnant woman and families.
The governor also claims deportations are happening too quickly and that U.S. citizens are being harassed.
However, Newsom offers no concrete evidence beyond cherry-picked anecdotes and sweeping generalizations.
Despite federal agents targeting those in violation of immigration law, most of whom have criminal records, Newsom fixates on portraying the entire effort as a humanitarian crisis, using emotional appeals while ignoring the broader issue of border security and national sovereignty.
In the same breath that he promises violent rioters “will be apprehended and prosecuted,” Newsom excuses the widespread unrest that led to property destruction and assaults on law enforcement.
Newsom calls leftist destruction and attacks on police part of California’s “free speech movement.”
Meanwhile, he condemns Trump for deploying National Guard troops to restore order in riot-hit areas, calling it “illegal” and a betrayal of the military.
“We do not want our streets militarized by our own Armed Forces,” Newsom wrote, despite the clear breakdown of law and order in parts of Los Angeles and the risk to residents and businesses.
The governor claims Trump “commandeered” 4,000 National Guard troops without his consent.
Yet, he conveniently omits the fact that federal law allows for such deployments in times of civil unrest.
Five years ago, Newsom quotes Trump as saying the National Guard should only be used at the governor’s request, ignoring the fact that violent riots have since made such restraint a luxury.
Perhaps most troubling is Newsom’s deliberate effort to paint immigration enforcement as a threat to democracy.
He refers to arrests of public officials, such as Sen. Alex Padilla and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, as evidence of authoritarianism.
What he doesn’t say is that these officials were interfering with federal operations or violating security protocols.
Newsom accuses Trump of “declaring war on culture, on history, on science, and on knowledge itself.”
He even suggests that Trump is dissolving archives, silencing universities, and undermining the judiciary.
Of course, these wild claims are neither backed by evidence nor grounded in reality.
The op-ed reads more like a campaign screed than a statement from a sitting governor.
“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,” Newsom wrote, invoking dystopian imagery and racial division.
But Newsom fails to mention that entering and remaining in the country illegally is a violation of federal law.
And enforcing those laws is not “tyranny,” it is the duty of any serious administration.
While President Trump focused on restoring law and order during an era of historic unrest, Gov. Newsom appears more interested in sowing fear and resistance to federal authority.
Instead of backing law enforcement or supporting secure borders, he’s filing lawsuits, 26 and counting.
The lawsuits are aimed at tying the hands of federal agents and further eroding immigration enforcement.
For Newsom, protecting the people of California apparently takes a backseat to virtue signaling for the radical Left and demonizing political opponents.
“Trump and his loyalists thrive on division,” Newsom writes, ironically, after spending over 1,500 words doing exactly that.
It’s not Trump who is fueling division.
It’s the relentless demonization of basic law enforcement, the refusal to enforce immigration laws, and the exploitation of real-world challenges for political gain.
America deserves leaders who prioritize public safety over politics, law over lawlessness, and facts over fear.
Unfortunately, if Newsom’s latest op-ed is any indication, California’s governor is choosing the opposite.
