Fauci in 2022: “I am very happy to testify before any congressional oversight committee.
I have nothing to hide. I can explain and validate everything that I’ve done.
I’m going to do what I need to do, and that is cooperate fully, because we have nothing to hide at all.”
Gavin Newsom is doing the thing corrupt politicians always do when the spotlight finally turns back on them.
He's pretending the investigation is the scandal.
It's not.
The scandal is that this man has spent his entire public life inside the gap between power and accountability, and he STILL acts stunned when somebody decides to take a peek behind the curtain.
Gavin is a product of the California lobby machine, the one that trades names and makes sure their guys win.
His whole business career was bankrolled by the billionaire Getty family. But you'll never hear Gavin rage about Getty money. He saves that for Elon.
This is a man whose entire political career is a pattern: overreach, scandal, fines for "irregular" accounting. Over and over.
He had an affair with his own appointments secretary, who happened to be the wife of his campaign manager and best friend.
Btw; she got a $10,154 city payout. Supposedly no wrongdoing. Why are taxpayers paying for Gavin's adultery?
He believes he's above the law. That if it's for the "right reasons," the law is made to be broken. That's what every dictator tells himself.
2004, he issued marriage licenses against state law. Courts voided them.
French Laundry, November 2020. He's got the whole state locked in their homes. He went after Elon for keeping Tesla open, told him to comply or get out of California, played hard-ass enforcer on national TV.
Then he drove up to Napa and threw a $400 plate dinner for lobbyists. Like cmon dude, at least pretend to believe the stuff you say on TV.
(oh and btw, multiple businesses he owns got PPP relief during covid. just saying.)
Beyond that, I don't get how anyone thinks this man is a great governor, let alone honest.
Under his nose, $20B in unemployment fraud, $800M of it mailed to people in prison cells. Has spent $24B on homelessness yet no auditor or taxpayer can tell what happened with the money or if anything changed.
The high speed rail is a running joke, $33B to $100B. No one's buying innocent OR competent.
And then there's his wife.
Her nonprofit paid her $1.8M over the years and routed another $2.1M to her OWN production company.
Then the $20M state diaper program, run through a different nonprofit she co-founded, whose co-CEO sits on her board.
Why is his wife the only person suitable for all these deals? That's family dealing, plain and simple, and it's the exact thread federal investigators are pulling on right now. Her finances. Her taxes. Her nonprofits.
So let's add it up, Gavin.
Your best friend resigned over your affair. Your chief of staff just pleaded guilty to federal fraud. You've got two ethics fines in two years and the state's own enforcer calling it a "pattern of repeated violations." Your wife is pulling millions out of nonprofits and landing state contracts. $20B in fraud walked out the door. $24B on homelessness that vanished. A bullet train that's a national punchline.
And your pitch is that the only reason anyone's asking questions is that Trump doesn't like you? And to be clear, some of these investigations started under the Biden Administration.
Come on, dude.
This is the disease with these people. Decades inside the machine, public money in, private benefit out, no consequences, and the second anyone investigates they wrap themselves in democracy and scream persecution.
But Gavin Newsom thinks scrutiny happens BENEATH him.
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Tens of thousands of Spencer Pratt voters are now receiving rejection letters from the county clerk saying that their ballots were not counted due to signature irregularities. Yet, Governor Gavin Newsom just passed legislation that would make it illegal for anyone conducting oversight, to contest signatures that they deemed fraudulent. Democrats allow ballots to be signed with an X, a -, or a 🙂 to pass and count, but all of a sudden, only Republican signatures are being flagged for irregularities, rejected, and not counted. 🤔 One of these California Republican voters said that his signature has been on file for over 20 years and there has never been an issue until he voted for Spencer Pratt. Nithya Ramen has beaten Spencer Pratt by less than 3000 votes. There are at least 18,000 Pratt voters who received this letter saying their votes were rejected.
It’s is quickly being revealed that California’s oversized budget and taxes aren’t because of brilliant bureaucratic programs and thoughtful spending but laziness, incompetence and corruption.
California's population grew 0.4% in the last decade.
The number of state employees grew 24.5%.
Total state spending grew 48%, inflation adjusted.
You have to ask - where did all the money go?
🧵 THREAD: Democrats TEACH voter identification and election integrity ... just not in America
The Democratic Party has an international arm called the National Democratic Institute (NDI). It's funded by $181M/year in US tax dollars. Its board includes Stacey Abrams, Donna Brazile, and Tom Daschle.
But in regards to today's SAVE America Act debate... did you know that the NDI has taught and supervised election processes all over the world?
For 40 years, NDI has told every developing country on earth that voter ID is essential for election integrity. They've recommended biometric systems... yes, that's right, NDI recommended biometric systems, which goes way beyond SAVE America Act! They praised fingerprint verification. Tracked ID card issuance rates.
Meanwhile, Democrats call the SAVE Act "Jim Crow 2.0."
Same party. Same people. Opposite positions.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread 👇
The reason why the democrat party is such a joke
is they forced you to show vaccination cards to enter restaurants during COVID,
but are completely against ID to vote.
🚨 BREAKING: Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent just TORCHED ABC’s Jon Karl over the Minneapolis shooting:
KARL: “There’s no evidence he brandished the gun!”
BESSENT: “But he BROUGHT a gun. Have you ever gone to a protest, Jon? Have you? I have. Guess what. I didn’t bring a gun, I brought a billboard!”
Bringing a loaded firearm + two magazines to an ICE raid isn’t “peaceful protesting” it’s premeditated.
Bessent nailed the absurdity.
.@GavinNewsom thought he’d show up in Davos, trash the US, and give a speech.
Instead, they canceled his speech, made him stand in the back, and @SecScottBessent sh*t down his throat.
Democrats were more upset about Trump renovating the East Wing at no cost to taxpayers than they are about Somali fraudsters stealing billions.
Says everything.
Mainstream media is more mad at me then they are at the FACT that billions of YOUR dollars are being used for fraudulent business
I am not an enemy of the people, they are
I’m with you, they are against you
Remember that
Gavin Newscum spent $450 million in taxpayer dollars for a new 911 system.
They just announced they’re scrapping it because the design was a total failure.
$450 million down the drain.
The only thing Newscum excels at is wasting tax dollars on bad projects.
They lost the House, the Senate, the Presidency, the Electoral College and the popular vote. They never got a king — they got the exact democracy they ordered.