Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) shot back at Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s accusations of “inciting violence” in Los Angeles as anti-deportation protesters violently riot against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, saying, “California deserves a lot better” than its far-left leader.
Cotton took to X on Monday afternoon to denounce the ongoing riots, which the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) chief said are “getting increasingly worse and more violent”:
“What’s happening in Los Angeles is a threat from the left. They demand open borders, or they will riot. And Dem politicians like Newsom will back them,” the Republican senator wrote. “It won’t work. We must never tolerate this lawlessness.”
Instead of tending to his burning city, Newsom replied, “The only one supporting lawlessness
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