Newsom Warns All of America: Dictator Trump Is Destroying Democracy

Democracy is 'under assault' under Donald Trump's leadership, according to California Governor Gavin Newsom.
In a nearly nine-minute address to his state and to the nation Tuesday evening, Newsom warned that the president's choice to manhandle Los Angeles, without any input from the government or people of California, indicates a leader on the verge of authoritarianism.
'If some of us can be snatched off the streets without a warrant, based only on suspicion or skin color, then none of us are safe,' Newsom said. 'Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves. But they do not stop there.
'Trump and his loyalists, they thrive on division because it allows them to take more power and exert even more control,' he continued. 'And by the way, Trump, he's not opposed to lawlessness and violence as long as it serves him. What more evidence do we need than January 6?'
Thousands of locals flooded the streets of Los Angeles over the weekend in a stunning visual protest of the president's agenda. Protesters blocked off a major freeway, trashed Waymos (self-driving cars), and organized outside of City Hall and the Metropolitan Detention Center. In reaction, law enforcement officials shot rubber bullets and fired tear gas and flash bangs into crowds of civilians. The FBI added protesters suspected of throwing rocks at police cars to its Most Wanted list and ominously threatened to intervene in the anti-Trump display without guidance from California or the White House.
California sued the federal government Monday to roll back Trump's deployment of 4,100 National Guard members that state authorities said had not been authorized or requested to handle the protests—an order that Newsom slammed Tuesday night as 'illegal' and a 'brazen abuse of power' that 'inflamed a combustible situation.'
'When Donald Trump sought blanket authority to commandeer the National Guard. he made that order apply to every state in this nation,' Newsom said. 'This is about all of us. This is about you. California may be first, but it clearly will not end here. Other states are next. Democracy is next.'
In another decision that nobody responsible for overseeing peace in Los Angeles wanted, Trump additionally deployed 700 Marines to the City of Angels, an initiative that Defense officials revealed Tuesday would cost U.S. taxpayers $134 million.
Trump also endorsed threats to arrest Newsom when the California governor began to hit back, telling reporters that he'd 'do it.'
'Democracy is under assault right before our eyes; this moment we have feared has arrived. He's taking a wrecking ball, a wrecking ball to our Founding Fathers' historic project: three coequal branches of independent government,' Newsom continued.
'The Founding Fathers didn't live and die to see this kind of moment,' Newsom said, urging Americans to 'stand up' to the Trump administration's aggressive control. 'I know many of you are feeling deep anxiety, stress, and fear,' he continued. 'But I want you to know that you are the antidote to that fear and that anxiety. What Donald Trump wants most is your fealty, your silence: to be complicit in this moment. Do not give in to him.'

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