Republican strategist and CNN contributor Scott Jennings blasted California Governor Gavin Newsom Tuesday night after Newsom’s remarks on the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles.
Jennings said it looked more like Newsom was trying to launch a presidential campaign instead of solving the problem of the riots.
Newsom delivered an eight-minute tirade, accusing President Donald Trump of “commandeering” National Guard troops and “choosing escalation” just hours after Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass imposed a curfew. The curfew came after five days of rioting sparked by an ICE operation at a Home Depot in the Los Angeles area.
“It’s amazing to me. First of all, this guy is the governor of a state, and it has got one of its most important cities burning on his watch, and he’s out here launching a presidential campaign,” Jennings told Collins. “There’s no other way to listen to what happened and not conclude that he just launched his presidential campaign on top of this lawlessness that’s going on in California. He governs a failed state. He sits atop of a failed state, and he sits, I guess, at the leadership right now of a political party that’s wanting to coddle the illegal invasion of our country, that’s causing what’s happening.”
“It’s not particularly controversial for Donald Trump to enforce federal law, our immigration laws, and, yet, to Democrats and Gavin Newsom, it’s an affront to them for the president of the United States to enforce federal law,” Jennings said. “He went down a litany of things that have nothing to do with what’s happening in California. All that’s happening in California is that a bunch of foreign nationals have occupied large swaths of the United States. One city is burning, and the president of the United States is trying to bring order. That’s all that’s happening.”
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Scott Jennings on Gavin Newsom: it's amazing that one of his most important cities is burning on his watch, and he decided to "launch his presidential campaign"
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