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Trump admits he will arrest a sitting governor simply because he ran for office.
On Monday, the president said it would be a "great thing" if border czar Tom Homan arrested Newsom; in response, the California governor fired back that the comment is an "unmistakable step toward authoritarianism."
In a sign of how much politics is driving the confrontation, Trump, when asked on Monday afternoon by ABC News what crime Newsom has committed to warrant his arrest, Trump said the governor's "primary crime is running for governor because he's done such a bad job." Newsom responded on X, "Donald Trump admits he will arrest a sitting governor simply because he ran for office."
With the protests, Trump, who has characterized them as "violent, insurrectionist mobs" and "Gavin Newscum inspired Riots," has deployed National Guard members to Los Angeles. Newsom has asked the administration to rescind the deployment and said Monday that he is suing the Trump administration, claiming Trump illegally federalized the National Guard.
Trump said the governor's "primary crime is running for governor because he's done such a bad job."
But Trump is not only criticizing the protesters -- he is blasting the Democrats leading the state and the city, calling them failures.
Trump has long been critical of the leadership in most Democratic-run states, often focusing his ire on California. Newsom, for his part, has explicitly accused the White House of exacerbating the situation for political gain.
"They want a spectacle. They want the violence," he said in an email to supporters sent through his political action committee on Sunday night. "They think this is good for them politically."
Newsom and Trump have long been at odds, although the two had a brief detente in their relationship in the past few months.
In the aftermath of wildfires in January that devastated the Los Angeles region, Trump visited the city toward the end of the month and was greeted on the tarmac by Newsom with several handshakes and an embrace; Newsom also met with Trump in Washington in early February, and told CNN afterwards, "I have just all the confidence in the world that it's going to be a strong partnership moving forward."
And Newsom grew more critical of Trump in the months afterward -- attacking the president's tariff policy in an ad that aired on Fox News where he said the "tariffs punish families."
The Trump administration has appeared to direct punishment at California as well. Earlier this month, Trump vowed to impose "large scale fines" on California after a transgender teen competed in a California state final competition in track and field. Last week, the Trump administration signaled that it would cut federal funding for a high-speed rail project in the state.
Newsom, separately, has begun to build a national profile amid speculation that he could run for president in 2028, which included stoking more speculation through a buzzy podcast launch in March. Newsom is term-limited and cannot run for governor in 2026.
While the Los Angeles situation is tied to Newsom's current work as governor and not to any current or future campaign, it puts him back in the national spotlight and at the center of one of the nation's highest-profile political issues, standing up to Trump.
Newsom referenced what he framed as the national stakes in his response to Trump's comments on his potential arrest: "This is a day I hoped I would never see in America… this is a line we cannot cross as a nation."
CNN Correspondent Detained By LAPD, Camera Crew Arrested
CNN National Correspondent Jason Carroll, who has been reporting on the unrest in Los Angeles for the past few days, found himself a part of the story tonight when he was detained and briefly questioned by Police in Los Angeles.
During a live shot, Carroll is heard telling police his name and then seen being walked away with his hands behind his back.
A police officer is then heard saying, “We’re letting you go. You can’t come back. If you come back, you will be arrested.”
Carroll is heard to say, “Ok.”
CNN later reported that, while Carroll was released, two members of his camera crew were arrested.
Carroll described the scene to Laura Coates back in the studio: “I was walking over to the officer, tried to explain who I was, who I was with. He said, I’d like you to turn around. I turned around, I put my hands behind my back. They did not put me in zip ties, but they did grab both my hands as I was escorted over to the side, they said, you are being detained.” Carroll is not the first member of the press to get caught between police and protesters. On Sunday, Lauren Tomasi, the U.S. correspondent for Australia's 9News, appeared to be shot by a rubber bullet while reporting on the immigration protests. Nick Stern, a British news photographer, reportedly needed emergency surgery over the weekend after sustaining a leg wound during the clashes.
The press plays an essential role in our democracy as the public’s eyes and ears.
A coalition of 27 press and civil liberties advocacy groups wrote to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem today “to express alarm that federal officers may have violated the First Amendment rights of journalists covering recent protests and unrest related to immigration enforcement in the Los Angeles area.” The coalition, led by the Los Angeles Press Club, First Amendment Coalition and Freedom of the Press Foundation, further wrote that “The press plays an essential role in our democracy as the public’s eyes and ears. The timely reporting of breaking news is necessary to provide the public with complete information, especially about controversial events.
“A number of reports suggest that federal officers have indiscriminately used force or deployed munitions such as tear gas or pepper balls that caused significant injuries to journalists. In some cases, federal officers appear to have deliberately targeted journalists who were doing nothing more than their job covering the news.”
The LA Press Club referred to at least 24 “documented” instances of journalists being targeted by law enforcement while covering the protests in Los Angeles between June 6-8, and multiple media workers report having been shot by police with less-than-lethal munitions.
Those journalists included Southern California News Group’s Ryanne Mena, freelance journalists Anthony Cabassa and Sean Beckner-Carmitchel, The Southlander’s Ben Camacho, British photojournalist Nick Stern, and LA Taco’s Lexis Olivier-Ray.
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