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Posted on 06/15/2026 5:13:25 PM PDT by Red Badger
CNN’s Paula Reid pumped the brakes on Monday after California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) took to social media to call himself a victim of President Donald Trump’s revenge tour.
In a statement on Monday, Newsom announced the following:
In recent days, federal agents have knocked on the doors of family friends and former employees. Not because they found a crime. Because they are simply trying to find one. They are demanding records. They are abusing the grand jury process. Digging through years and years of random documents.
Donald Trump isn’t just coming after me because of my mean tweets. He’s coming after me because I am considering running for president. Because he hates that I’ve consistently called him out – over and over again – for his lies and deceit. Donald Trump is simply the most corrupt president in American history. He has turned the levers of government into his own personal power ministries to reward cronies and to try to jail his opponents.
His personal attorney now runs the Department of Justice, which has repeatedly gone after his political enemies. Ask Jerome Powell. He sent them after James Comey. Tish [Letitia] James. Adam Schiff. He sent them after Tim Walz. And a woman that a jury found Donald Trump had sexually abused. One by one, anyone who has challenged Donald Trump has ended up on his hit list. And today, I proudly join that list.
After calling for my arrest last year, Donald Trump directed his Department of Justice to investigate me. And just in the last week, I’ve learned his campaign has reached my own home: to get me, he’s coming after my wife, Jen. A public servant. A woman who has dedicated her life to supporting women and girls. Someone who has done nothing wrong, other than having the temerity to advocate for what she believes in. If they can’t intimidate me, they’ll go after the mother of our children.
Donald Trump picked the wrong target. We have nothing to hide. His political operatives can take every record and read every page. But they’ll be looking in the wrong place. Because if they really want to find corruption, look no further than 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Donald Trump is selling the presidency. He is running the largest cash heist in American political history — trading foreign tariff relief for approval of his golf courses. Day-trading behind the Resolute Desk. Reaping hundreds of millions of dollars in personal profit.
Reid provided some more context during a segment on CNN News Central:
After the governor made this announcement, we took a few minutes to call our sources, figure out exactly what’s going on here. So I want to lay this out for our viewers, what we’re learning. Let’s start with this announcement by California Governor Gavin Newsom. He says there in that video that the Department of Justice is investigating him. He claims that President Trump is targeting him as a political enemy. Now, we know the president has been very clear that he wants his Justice Department to pursue his perceived political adversaries. So an announcement like this seems to fit in that pattern. But in speaking with our sources, we are told by a source familiar that there is quote, “Not an investigation directly into Newsom.” Now that is attributable to a source familiar with the matter.
We are told that there are several investigations into people associated with the California governor. These are being run out of a U.S. Attorney’s office in California, including one investigation into the governor’s wife for potential tax-related crimes. Now we are also-, we also know from public reporting, public happenings, that Newsom’s former chief of staff pleaded guilty to three charges related to a scheme to steal campaign money from the former secretary of health and human services. That is a case that has been widely reported. We are told, though, that the Justice Department, the political appointees here in the Justice Department in Washington were not involved in the origins of this investigation. This was all, we are told, prompted by a whistleblower report in 2025. Now today, the governor’s office said that federal agents have contacted people and organizations connected to both the governor and his wife. They alleged that they have issued subpoenas for records and conducted interviews related to years of personal and professional activity. Now, in recent weeks, Newsom’s office says the federal probe expanded to focus on his family and professional network.
So here we have two different narratives. One coming from sources here in Washington saying there is no investigation directly into Newsom, then the governor releasing this video insisting that he is being targeted by the president. Now, based on our reporting it does appear that there are investigations, that there would likely be interviews with people connected to him. But again a source suggesting he is not directly the target of an investigation. But as we know, the Trump Justice Department has pursued many of President Trump’s political adversaries, so there is certainly a concern around the potential weaponization of the Justice Department. And we will continue to talk to our sources. We’re not gonna let the governor control the narrative, or just rely on one or two sources here in Washington, we’ll continue to figure out exactly what this investigation covers.
Watch above via CNN.
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Sounds like NewSCUM is terrified about what the DOJ is going to find out about him and his crooked as hell wife. Let’s start with the FireAid money, that was all supposed to go to FIRE VICTIMS, NOT ONE PENNY as gone to any victim, it all went to Dem NGO’s to fund THEMSELVES and the money also went into NewSCUM’s pocket. Now let’s talk about his wife’s phony baloney scams that she has been running to make herself rich, like that diaper “Charity” that the money went into HER bank account..and let’s not forget the Palisades fire, which was a land grab to make NewSCUM wealthy, fill it with low income housing so he can come out and say “See I solved the housing crisis in this state” NewSCUM sounds pretty worried for a guy who supposedly did nothing wrong
HE SHOULD BE SCARED.
IMO—HE IS NOT SMART ENOUGH TO COVER ALL HIS DIRTY TRACKS.
“We have nothing to hide”. The liar’s manifesto.
Haha- now he know how it felt when zero and Brandon used the full force of the federal government to accuse Trump of Russian collusion, then impeached him, then arrested him for classified records violations, etc.etc.etc…
EXCEPT Newscum isn’t being treated that way by this administration, he’s simply accusing the other side of what THEY did…..
the way that NewSCUM is reacting tells me he is TERRIFIED that everything is going to come out..he and his disgusting grifter “wife” are going down and he knows it..by the way everyone knows that NewSCUM sleeps with his interns, the marriage, its in name only, they both screw around on each other
“HE IS NOT SMART ENOUGH TO COVER ALL HIS DIRTY TRACKS.”
He must be panicked………LOL!
The bastard Newsome is a dyslexic, lying, corrupt, adulterous SOB whose only goal is power— never forget that.
He’s dyslexic?..............I didn’t know that!...........
Democrats weaponized law enforcement against Republicans. You don’t need to weaponized it to go after them though. They are naturally crooks.
I believe this is about trying to get street cred in dem circles.
That and it is about trying to get sympathy for when the inevitable indictments come down...............
Who owns CNN now? Gee… I can’t remember. Maybe they want to appear to be a news station again.
CNN is currently owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), having been under its ownership since 2022. However, the U.S. Department of Justice approved a merger on June 13, 2026, that will transfer ownership to Paramount Skydance, a company led by David Ellison.
Bari
One investigation started under Biden.
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