Democrats have settled on an excuse for the ongoing riots in Los Angeles: they are Trump’s fault for arresting illegal aliens; for federalizing the California National Guard; in short, for attempting to enforce existing laws.
At no point have any of the elected leaders in Los Angeles and California — almost all of them Democrats — supported law enforcement, or accepted responsibility for allowing violence against police and vandalism against government buildings.
Instead, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has spent much of the weekend on social media, attacking Trump and debating people about whether videos of burning police cars are actually from the anti-ICE riots of 2025, or the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020 — both of which happened on his watch.
Newsom is claiming
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