White House border czar Tom Homan bashed California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday, after the high-profile Democrat said Immigration and Customs Enforcement acted as President Donald Trump’s “private police force.”
“Newsom is an embarrassment to the position he holds. Hard stop,” Homan told reporters. “If he had an ounce of integrity he’d be calling President Trump and thanking him for making LA safer. He’d be calling the head of ICE and thanking them for the thousands of criminals, public safety threats they’ve taken off the streets of California.”
Newsom’s comments during a POLITICO summit were the latest in a series of attacks he has levied recently against the president.
“When they’re done with this — all that funding and that ‘big beautiful betrayal’ allows more resources for this private police force that increasingly is showing a tendency not to swear an oath to the Constitution, but to the president of the United States,” Newsom said.
The governor gained national attention in August for his thinly veiled Trump parody account on X, with some supporters praising him for demonstrating “the fight people are looking for.”
Trump and Newsom have historically had a strained relationship. Tension boiled over during the handling of protests in Los Angeles over ICE raids, when Trump deployed the National Guard.
The president suggested at the time it would be “great” if Homan arrested Newsom.
“The President of the United States just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor,” Newsom responded on X. “I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican this is a line we cannot cross as a nation — this is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.”
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