Newsom and Trump are bitter rivals. That will likely never change.
And Gavin Newsom just laid out a shocking statement about President Trump.
California Governor Gavin Newsom is already telegraphing the Democrats’ next move if they claw back the House: another round of impeachment theater against President Trump that even he admits will go nowhere.
On “PBS NewsHour,” Newsom made clear he has little appetite for the process.
Asked by co-host Amna Nawaz whether Democrats should impeach Trump if they win the majority, Newsom replied:
“I don’t — if the facts — wherever the facts lead. And I’m not naive about the politics of that, because it will be a sideshow and a distraction. What I don’t want to do is see another impeachment that amounts to nothing except a virtue signal, and that’s important. I just don’t want a sideshow.”
He insisted Democrats should still follow “wherever the facts lead.”
Yet in the same breath he urged the party to pivot hard to domestic priorities he claims California has already mastered.
Newsom ticked off a list of state programs he wants national Democrats to push instead of another failed attempt to remove Trump from office.
Even while cautioning against a sideshow, Newsom could not resist the familiar Democratic framing.
He declared that accountability must apply “across the board” and that it is “not just Trump,” but also “all the folks that are complicit in this great grift” and “all the folks that are complicit in the rank corruption that is going on in this administration.”
He closed with a broad call for legal consequences: “anyone that’s broken the law, anyone that’s taken advantage of the American people, picked their pocket illegally should be held to account.”
For right-leaning populists, the interview lands as pure political calculation.
Newsom knows the last two impeachments produced no removal and left many voters cold.
Another one risks looking like the same partisan exercise while ordinary Americans care more about prices, wages, and border security than another round of congressional spectacle.
