You can tell when Gavin Newsom is campaigning, his lips are moving.
It’s like the old joke about how can you tell when a politician is lying? Their lips are moving. Some would say same idea in both cases. Newsom is, after all, a politician more than anything else.
And according to some, Newsom is gearing up for a run for President in 2028.
Which is why it probably shouldn’t surprise me when he says stuff that just sounds laughable coming out of his mouth. Not necessarily because what he says (in this case, at least) doesn’t make sense or isn’t a good idea.
It’s laughable because it’s the polar opposite of the policies that he’s been pushing for years as the governor of California.
You need an example? I’m here to help. Chase Smith writes,
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Aug. 28 that new California Highway Patrol (CHP) crime suppression teams will be deployed in major cities across the state, expanding a program officials say has already reduced violent and property crime.
The teams will work in Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, the San Francisco Bay Area, the Central Valley, and the Inland Empire, focusing on high-crime areas in coordination with local police. Newsom said the expanded deployments build on earlier partnerships in Oakland, Bakersfield, and San Bernardino.
“When the state and local communities work together strategically, public safety improves,” Newsom said in a statement, accusing the Trump administration of “underm[ing] cities” while California is partnering with them in “delivering real results.”
Now, to be perfectly honest, this sounds like completely nonsense coming out of Newsom’s mouth. He did, after all, oversee the further decline of San Francisco into lawlessness when he was mayor and of California as governor.
And, clearly, I’m not the only one who thinks that Newsom is being dishonest here.
In response to Newsom’s claim that the Trump administration was undermining cities, the White House told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement that after Newsom spent weeks criticizing President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime, he had “reverted to his tried-and-true strategy: embracing and copying the Trump agenda.”
Really, though, if Newsom actually cares about decreasing crime in California, he will increase law enforcement presence in areas especially hard hit with crime and he will move California to constitutional carry.
But I’m not holding my breath for that.
