California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) dialed up his criticism of Donald Trump on Thursday as he slammed the president’s claims that they spoke over the cellphone about deploying the National Guard to reply to protests in Los Angeles.
“He has fairly actually made up elements of that dialog. He’s been a stone chilly liar about what he mentioned we talked about. He by no means mentioned the Nationwide Guard. Interval, full cease,” Newsom mentioned.
Newsom spoke to reporters in response to a federal decide’s order for Trump to return management of Nationwide Guard troops to his state, a ruling that was temporarily blocked by a federal appeals court simply hours later.
Newsom mentioned he final talked with Trump late evening on June 6 (early morning on June 7 in Washington), a name he described as being about 20 minutes lengthy and one the place Trump wished to debate “all these different points” as a substitute of LA.
He advised reporters that he’d “love” to share what the president and him “truly” mentioned however he reveres the workplace to a level the place he received’t.
“It will ship shivers up your backbone,” Newsom mentioned of the decision.
He later added, “We mentioned, for a nanosecond, Los Angeles and he instantly zigged and zagged into seven or eight different matters — some terribly acquainted and a few terribly exceptional, contemplating the world we reside in.”
Newsom has repeatedly swatted down Trump’s claims about their name together with one from Tuesday when the president — who’s faced questions about his cognitive potential — advised reporters within the Oval Workplace that he final spoke to Newsom “a day in the past” (or Monday).
“There was no name. Not even a voicemail,” Newsom wrote on X, previously Twitter.
“Individuals ought to be alarmed {that a} president deploying Marines onto our streets doesn’t even know who he’s speaking to.”
Trump tried to hit again at Newsom by sharing a screenshot of their name log with Fox News.
However the picture, as a substitute of corroborating Trump’s declare, aligned with Newsom’s account exhibiting that they talked for about 16 minutes on June 7 (not Monday).
Newsom ripped Trump’s receipts on social media, writing, “If solely he had proven the suitable ones… Trump doesn’t even know what day it’s.”
