After more than a day of preening, posturing, and blame-shifting, the inert governor of California, Gavin Newsom, issued his coup de grace on his party’s planned unrest in Los Angeles: He demanded President Donald Trump recall orders sending the California National Guard to stop the violent protests in his state.
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The governor said basically that he didn’t need no stinking California National Guard.
Newsom sent the White House a strongly worded letter demanding that President Donald Trump rescind his order to federalize the National Guard and allow the protesters to continually commit acts of arson, beat up ICE officers, surround police cars, set strip malls on fire, and issue threats.
“We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved,” said Newsom in his signature glottal
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