He is the name that is most popular in the Democratic pools to be the figure who heads the electoral ticket against the heirs of the Trumpism or in the Republican ranks, potentially a JD Vance-Marco Rubio tandem. , continues to denounce that the White House is redoubling the pressure on him as the idea that he is the best asset that the party of the donkey has is clearing up. But Newsom has assured that one more line has been crossed, warning of a federal investigation against him and his wife. No proof.
In this sense, and through a video published on his social networks, Gavin Newsom has denounced a type of prospective investigation by federal agents in which they “have knocked on the doors of family friends and former employees” to “ask for records”, while they have “digging through years and years of documents”, while doing so by “abusing the grand jury process”. The governor of the largest state on the west coast is clear that “it is not because of me, but because I am considering running.” [a las elecciones presidenciales de 2028]”.
Thus, the governor in one of the largest blue fiefdoms in the US, recalled one of the US president’s statements, pointing out that “Donald Trump asked for me to be arrested last year and now he has ordered his Department of Justice to investigate me.” And he has announced that this pressure now also hangs over his partner: “Last week I learned that this campaign has reached my home to come after me, to go after my wife, Jen [la cineasta y activista feminista Jennifer Siebel Newsom]”.
Newsom challenges Trump and ‘his list’: “Mr. President, come after me. The country is watching”
Newsom has not specified exactly what questions federal agents would be asking or the nature of the investigation, but he has stressed that this investigation is being carried out “not because there is a crime, but because they are trying to find one.” And he has stated that behind this alleged interference is Trump’s animosity towards him, a president who usually refers to him by the nickname that emerged from the MAGA ranks with which he is insulted: Gavin ‘Newscum’, a play on words with the term ‘scum’.
“He hates that I constantly criticize him. He is, simply, the most corrupt president in the history of the United States,” said Newsom, a politician who has stood out in recent years for opting for a strategy of total confrontation against Trump, even for a season he imitated his cocky style and words in capital letters on networks to shake him. In fact, he still has some for sale: “For all your Trump servility needs, now in Republican red. For the modest price of your soul.”
True to that style, Newsom has concluded his video statement by launching a new challenge to Donald Trump. He has assured that both he and Jennifer Siebel “have nothing to hide”, throwing down the gauntlet: “Mr. President, come for me. I’m not going anywhere. The country is watching.” He has not stopped there and has begun to review a sort of ‘list’ of rivals or people who fell out with Trump and ended up being the subject of a federal investigation.
Among that group of politicians and former senior officials are the names of: Senator Adam Schiff, New York prosecutor Letitia James, former FBI director James Comey, former Federal Reserve president Jerome Powell or Kamala Harris’ former running mate, Minnesota governor Tim Walz.
As an anecdote, within the Government of Spain there has been a notable reaction to Gavin Newsom’s complaint. It comes from one of the politicians who tend to use similar dialectical weapons in our country, the same one where the businesswoman and first lady Begoña Gómez denounces being the subject of a judicial investigation with irregularities and an “excessive haste” to end the investigation by giving the procedure “a cruising speed absolutely incompatible with the guarantees of the criminal process in a Democratic State.” The Minister of Transportation, Óscar Puente, has commented on the Californian governor’s publication with a brief, but forceful, “look!”
