(VIDEO) Newsom Attacks JD Vance and Trump in Embarrassing Word Salad, Says JD Vance Doesn’t Have What it Takes to Carry Trumpism – Trump Responds

 Newsome is  a economic Idiot and a big Pussy.  Look what he has done to his State

Gavin Newsom speaks at the Center for American Progress Ideas Conference in Washington, DC – May 20, 2026

California Governor and likely 2028 Presidential hopeful Gavin Newsom took a shot at Vice President JD Vance while speaking at the Center for American Progress Ideas Conference in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, declaring that the VP doesn’t have what it takes to replace Trump in the White House.

Trump, Newsom said, is an “invasive species,” which Trumpism and the MAGA movement can’t survive without. “It’s a cult of personality,” he said, adding, “With all due respect, JD, you don’t have it.”

Newsom went on to deliver a bizarre word salad about what the Democrats need to win the White House in 2028 and how voters are thinking about the future. Oddly, he continued his defense of Biden’s policies, claiming that the economy was “booming” with low inflation and that job creation and unemployment were the best since the 1960s.

He further accused Trump of “wanting to bring us back to a pre-1960s world” with the destruction of LGBTQ rights, women’s rights, and voting rights.

Notably, this comes as the Democratic Party’s 2024 election autopsy, which credits in part the focus on identity politics for Kamala Harris’s loss, was released. They still haven’t learned!

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Newsom: Trump’s an invasive species. I don’t see Trump, Trumpism lasting beyond Trump. Period. Full stop. It’s a cult of personality. With all due respect, JD, you don’t have it, and so I did something a little more damn optimistic.

As long as we own up to our own complicity, we’ve been too timid. It’s not about tinkering anymore. It’s not about I doubled the earned income tax credit. If I’m giving that speech, you’re in trouble. It’s not about retraining, and that’s, this is something different. I’m sorry, I don’t know. I’m not going all Elizabeth or Bernie on you, or AOC. Maybe I am a little bit. You know, in terms of understanding that, or all Trump and Trumpism, understanding that, you know it’s, it’s, it’s just, it is remarkable, it’s, you know, and I’ll end on this, I know I got to go. The anxiety is manifesting in real despair for people.

I mean, their pessimism is pretty profound, and that’s, you know, and AI, as I say, is going to detonate that, and so we have to fundamentally understand that, and, and that’s why, as Democrats, I, this is not, you know, I’m not here for forgiveness, but I get why, when I was out there stumping for Biden, and I revere that man, and we’ll have his back till my last breath. I do. And I’ll never regret a day out there, but I was, you know, I was defending the economy’s booming, inflation’s cooling, you know, best jobs market since 1960s lowest unemployment for black women and Hispanics, and talking about industrial policy that’s worker-centered, and the four big, you know, that’s but people weren’t feeling it and, you know, Trump’s making the same damn mistake, and it’s because they weren’t experiencing it. We don’t live in the aggregate, we don’t.

Trump was asked about the comments on Wednesday, where he appeared to shrug off the statement, saying, Vance will “do very well” if he wins the GOP nomination for president.

“We have a lot of very talented people,” he added. “We’re doing a lot, and JD is a very talented guy.”

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Reporter: Gavin Newsom is on Capitol Hill today. He says that he doesn’t think JD Vance has what it takes to come after you. What’s your response to that?

Trump: Well, look, we’ve done a lot, and JD is very talented. He’s a smart guy. He’ll do very well if it’s, if it’s JD. We have a lot of very talented people. So, I think hopefully we’re going to leave something that’s going to be real easy to run. We’re doing, we’re doing a lot. We’re doing a lot, and JD is a very talented guy.

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Spanberger’s Spectacular Gerrymandering Faceplant

 She and her fellow Virginia Democrats allowed their lust for power to fuel a brazen political power grab.

The evening of April 21 there were a lot of smiles to be seen on the faces of Virginia Democrats. The voters of the Old Dominion had gone to the polls and approved an amendment to the Commonwealth’s constitution allowing a radically redistricted congressional map. No one was happier than Virginia’s new Democrat Governor, Abigail Spanberger, who had reversed her position on partisan gerrymandering to dramatically increase her party’s power in Congress. Like her Democrat accomplices in the General Assembly she assumed that the challenges to the amendment under consideration by Virginia’s Supreme Court (SCOVA) would immediately collapse once “the people had spoken.”

“Gov. Abigail Spanberger and the Democratic establishment … tossed aside any pretense of principle in a raw political gambit.”

Spanberger was wrong, of course, as she discovered last Friday when SCOVA nullified the referendum. Justice D. Arthur Kelsey wrote in the majority opinion, “We hold that the legislative process employed to advance this proposal violated Article XII, Section 1 of the Constitution of Virginia. This constitutional violation incurably taints the resulting referendum vote and nullifies its legal efficacy.” To paraphrase an expression that many readers may have heard from their mothers, that wiped the smile right off Spanberger’s face. The elaborate strategy pursued by the governor and her fellow Democrats in the General Assembly to trick the voters as well as SCOVA was too clever by half. As former Governor Glenn Youngkin summed it up:

Abigail Spanberger, Don Scott, Louise Lucas and all their friends knowingly violated the Virginia Constitution … They strongly argued for the VA Supreme Court to “wait” until after the referendum so their flood of money from national democrats could fund their brazen dishonesty and trick voters to “restore fairness”, and then claim “the will of the people” when the VA Supreme Court would undoubtedly strike down their unconstitutional attempt to disenfranchise millions of Virginians.

Their most egregious offense was treating the voters like morons. They jettisoned a balanced congressional map with a partisan split of 6 Democrats and 5 Republicans. Then, in the name of “fairness,” they replaced it with a monstrosity whose partisan split was 10 Democrats and 1 Republican. Finally, they asked the voters to answer “Yes” or “No” to this deceptive ballot question in the April 21 referendum: “Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia’s standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?” “Yes,” skirted by at 51.7 to 48.3 percent.

Gov. Spanberger and her accomplices obviously hoped this narrow win would settle the matter. Nonetheless, the day after the referendum was held, Tazewell County Circuit Judge Jack Hurley issued a permanent injunction blocking its certification. The Old Dominion’s controversial Attorney General, Jay Jones, appealed Judge Hurley’s injunction but SCOVA denied his appeal on April 28th. This denial was an ill omen for their gerrymandered map and last Friday’s ruling confirmed the worst fears of the Democrats. In an act of sheer desperation, they now intend to appeal SCOVA’s ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli discussed the likely results of this appeal in an opinion piece for Fox News:

Virginia voters narrowly approved a referendum to let the Democrat-controlled General Assembly redraw the state’s congressional map, replacing districts drawn by the bipartisan commission … But the vote, dramatic as it was, is not the final chapter. Three lawsuits, raising four distinct (state) constitutional challenges, are already in courts. And the institution that will ultimately decide whether this referendum stands is not the United States Supreme Court. It is the Supreme Court of Virginia.

This opinion is shared by Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute. Upon reading that Virginia Democrats were actively preparing to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, Shapiro offered this succinct response: “Nothing to appeal — it’s an issue of state law.” SCOTUS rarely intervenes in matters that rest on adequate and independent state grounds. According to a report in the Washington Examiner, “Chief Justice John Roberts, an appointee of former President George W. Bush who oversees emergency petitions stemming from Virginia, will handle the request when it is filed and decide whether to refer the matter to the full court for consideration.” Roberts will not be inclined to wade into this mess.

Probably the best description from a constitutional scholar on this failed Democrat gerrymandering scheme was offered by Jonathan Turley who wrote, “Gov. Abigail Spanberger and the Democratic establishment … tossed aside any pretense of principle in a raw political gambit. The resulting faceplant is nothing short of legendary: Spanberger’s Democrats have succeeded in alienating half of the state.” So, returning to all those smiles we saw on Democrat faces after the April 21 referendum, they have now been replaced by sanguinary scowls and outrage about the collapse of democracy. It would be easy to write off these Democrats as clowns, but their limitless lust for power is actually quite dangerous. Remember that next November.

https://spectator.org/spanbergers-spectacular-gerrymandering-faceplant/

Is Prison the Best Place for Certain Prominent Democrats?

 Just look at the nefarious behavior of Jack Smith. And he’s far from the only one.

Reports last week confirmed that former special counsel Jack Smith “secretly arranged” to preserve evidence in his criminal cases against President Trump in order to maintain the threat of future prosecution once the president leaves office.  This is not a big surprise.  Democrats have thrown every civic norm out the window in their ruthless efforts to target Trump’s businesses and send him to prison for life. 

In his quest to imprison an American president, Jack Smith accused Trump of engaging in a conspiracy to “overthrow” the 2020 election, as well as retaining possession of classified documents after leaving the White House.  Both allegations are ridiculous, and Smith’s own words make him sound like a lawfare hitman and anti-MAGA zealot.  He told members of Congress in January, “Our investigation revealed that Donald Trump is the person who caused Jan. 6, it was foreseeable to him, and that he sought to exploit the violence.”  Smith stated emphatically that Trump committed “serious crimes.”  

Serious crimes?  You mean like using the FBI to spy on all the Republican presidential primary candidates in 2015 and 2016?  Oh right, that was President Obama.  Or fabricating intelligence in order to justify a counterintelligence operation against candidate Trump?  Oh, that was Obama’s corrupt CIA director, John Brennan.  Or paying British Intelligence operatives to manufacture a fake “Russia collusion” dossier implicating Trump?  Oh, that was Hillary Clinton.  Or using the FBI and CIA to frame President Trump as a Russian spy?  Oh, that was Obama and Clinton, too.  Or sabotaging President Trump’s administration by using a Democrat spy on the National Intelligence Council to construct a false story about an innocuous phone call in order to trigger a bogus impeachment?  Oh, that was Intelligence Community Democrats attempting to hide Joe Biden’s corruption in Ukraine by, again, framing President Trump for a quid-pro-quo “crime” he never committed.  Or submitting fraudulent documents to the FISA Court in order to maintain spying operations against President Trump?  Oh, that was corrupt James Comey, corrupt Robert Mueller, corrupt Andrew Weissmann, corrupt Norm Eisen, corrupt Mary McCord, and their Democrat accomplices in the FBI and DOJ who covered up Obama’s illegal spying operations while framing President Trump as a criminal, spy, and traitor.  

Listening to Jack Smith call President Trump a “serious” criminal sounds ridiculous when serious criminals Obama, Clinton, Brennan, Comey, and legions of their Democrat colleagues, subordinates, and co-conspirators in the DOJ, FBI, CIA, D.C. courts, and FISA Court (see Judge James Boasberg’s impeachable offenses) have never been properly investigated or punished for undermining President Trump’s election, sabotaging his administration, and framing him for treason.  The most powerful Democrats in the country organized a coup d’état in broad daylight and dragged the country through a barbed-wire field of partisan propaganda for the last ten years, and Jack Smith wants Americans to be upset that President Trump retained documents that he was entitled to possess?  It’s just such lunacy.  The constant gaslighting from D.C. operatives is equally infuriating and exhausting.  

Glossing over the Democrats’ monstrous Russia Collusion Hoax, their relentless efforts to subvert the Trump-led government, and their continuing obsession with tossing the president in prison for imaginary crimes is bad enough, but Jack Smith does what all Democrats do: He pretends that the January 6, 2021, protest for election integrity was an attempt by Trump and his supporters to overthrow the government.  This lie is so brazen that it’s astonishing how Democrats can keep telling it with straight faces.  

The people who showed up at the Capitol that day had one objective: to express their strong belief that mail-in-ballot fraud, violations of multiple states’ electoral statutes, and numerous voting discrepancies had tainted the 2020 election.  Several senators intended to make these very arguments before the certification of the election’s results.  The people who gathered outside the Capitol were exercising their First Amendment right to assemble peaceably.  They were unarmed.  Most had no criminal records.  A large number had served their country in various capacities.  Most who entered the Capitol walked around as tourists, took pictures, interacted in a friendly manner with Capitol Police, and posed no threat to anyone.  

Only after law enforcement officers chose to fire flash-bang grenades on the assembled crowd did a section of the protest turn into something that could be described as a riot.  Trump supporters — not police officers — died on January 6.  Ordinary Americans exercising their constitutional rights were thrown into a state of fear of being hurt or killed.  

Nevertheless, Smith continues to propagate the lie that the three-hour event at the Capitol was somehow the greatest threat to the country since 9/11, Pearl Harbor, and the Civil War (real comparisons that Democrat propagandists continue to make).  Smith and his fellow Democrats desperately wish for Americans to believe that a hot-chocolate-drinking gathering of grandparents, revelers, and veterans was somehow going to topple the government of the United States.  If a crowd of retirees is capable of overrunning Washington, what’s the point of a trillion-dollar military budget?  

Smith’s perpetuation of the Democrats’ J6 propaganda is bad enough, but the fact that he treats that day as equivalent to the Civil War is all the more preposterous given that Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and their fellow Democrats openly encouraged Black Lives Matter domestic terrorists to burn down neighborhoods, loot businesses, and murder civilians throughout the summer of 2020.  If President Trump “caused Jan. 6” and the events of that day were “foreseeable” to him, then the violence and mayhem of 2020’s so-called “summer of love” were certainly foreseeable to Democrats.  The BLM riots of 2020 were the most costly in American history, and Vice President Harris encouraged Democrats to donate money to a bail fund that put arsonists, rapists, and murderers back on the street.

Were the Democrat-organized riots of 2020 “foreseeable”?  Of course.  Did prominent Democrats “exploit the violence,” as Smith accuses Trump of doing with January 6?  They absolutely did.  Biden and Harris ran for the White House on the message that the violence would end once they were elected.  Will preening, self-righteous Jack Smith investigate, harass, arrest, or prosecute any of these Democrats?  Of course not.  Will Democrat rioters be tossed into pre-trial solitary confinement and refused bail by partisan prosecutors and judges?  Definitely not.  To this day, Democrats celebrate BLM and Antifa domestic terrorists as champions for civil rights.  When Democrats burn cities to the ground, the arsonists get statues.  When MAGA Americans protest for free and fair voting, they are condemned for crimes they never committed.   

Unfortunately, this is how leftists all over the world now operate.  Brazil’s communist President Lula has imprisoned his predecessor, President Bolsonaro, for supposedly trying to overthrow the government.  French President Macron has permitted his political opposition, Marine Le Pen, to be prosecuted and convicted for similarly bogus “embezzlement” crimes.  Germany has flirted with designating the popular anti-immigration party, Alternative for Germany, a “terrorist” organization and banning its candidates from running for office.  When the “wrong” candidate won Romania’s presidential election eighteen months ago, the country’s Constitutional Court annulled the outcome by blaming “Russian interference.”  

If President Trump hadn’t possessed the financial resources and sheer grit to face down the onslaught of malicious and meritless prosecutions against him, he would likely be in a courtroom or a prison today.  If he hadn’t been re-elected a third time, January 6 defendants would still be awaiting trial or serving time in prison for an imaginary “insurrection.”  

Forget about Jack Smith.  He’s no lawman, and he has no principles.  He’s nothing but a corrupt propagandist, partisan hack, and lawfare assassin. 

Nothing will change until prominent Democrats are prosecuted and convicted for their crimes.  Until then, it’s open season on all of us.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/05/is_prison_the_best_place_for_certain_prominent_democrats.html

Illegals Are Killing America

 Another horrific murder shows what we’re up against — not just the illegal aliens, but the judges who keep releasing them.

On April 3, a 51-year-old woman was murdered by a man wielding a hammer as she exited a Chevron gas station in Ft. Myers, Florida.  The attack was captured on video, and from the video, it appears that the woman didn’t realize until the last second what was happening.  It was too unexpected.  The victim had undoubtedly exited that gas station, where she reportedly worked as a clerk, dozens if not hundreds of times before and felt secure.  In the video, she shows no sign of apprehension, but as long as anyone like her killer is at large in America, none of us is completely safe from this kind of unexpected attack.

The hammer murder was so vicious that it captured the attention of President Trump, who condemned it on Truth Social.  A murder of this kind — of a totally innocent and unsuspecting middle-aged woman by a strong young man in the most brutal fashion and in broad daylight — is extreme, but not entirely uncommon.  It actually epitomizes what has come about in America today, since most murders are carried out by directionless young men, often by illegals and often for no reason (can there be a “reason”?) other than wanting to kill.

The president’s posting, which included “an extremely graphic video — not for children,” identified the accused as 40-year-old Rolbert Joachin, an illegal alien from Haiti who had been released by Joe Biden under the much abused “Temporary Protective Status” program.  Trump stated that liberal judges have been blocking the deportation of persons like Joachin, despite the president’s repeated efforts to end the TPS program and deport them.  Trump’s DHS assisted the Ft. Myers police in tracking down and arresting the accused.  In his statements regarding this killing as in so much else concerning illegal aliens, the president was totally correct.

One month before that unidentified woman was killed in Ft. Myers, another unsuspecting person was killed as she waited for a bus in Fairfax County, Virginia.  Thrity-two-year-old Abdul Jalloh is accused of stabbing Stephanie Minter, 41, multiple times and leaving her to die at the bus stop.  This case should send chills up the spine of anyone who hears of it, but it doesn’t seem to have affected Virginia’s newly elected governor, Abigail Spanberger, who just after the event signed an executive order allowing state and local police to refuse cooperation with ICE.

The accused in this case had at least forty prior arrests and was reportedly “well known” to prosecutors, but was released every time by liberal judges.  Remarkably, under guidelines approved by Gov. Spanberger, Jalloh could be released again without being turned over to ICE. 

Most of us are careful when we are out in America’s cities.  We avoid areas known to be dangerous, and we watch before we get out of our cars even in “safe” areas.  But there is nothing we can do, other than carry a loaded gun and have it ready, to protect ourselves from attacks like these.  The most important thing is to support ICE in its effort to remove criminal aliens, who in some locations are responsible for as much as three fourths of violent crime.  It is madness for state officials to oppose cooperation with a federal agency — or for Democrats in Congress to block funding — whose main purpose at this time is to remove “the worst of the worst.”

Any discussion of criminal illegal aliens should begin with the understanding that removing them should not be a matter of discussion or a reason to protest on their behalf.  It is essential if America is to continue to function as a free, open society.  If ICE is prohibited from doing its job, America will turn into what it was quickly becoming under Biden: a crime-ridden, violent, chaotic nation in which no one is truly safe.  The women in Ft. Myers and Fairfax County would be alive today if Biden had not let their murderers in, and many others would be alive, including Sheridan Gorman, the 18-year-old Loyola University student in Illinois, if ICE had been allowed to do its job.  Already, federal prosecutors have jumped in with a list of charges because they “have no faith” in the Illinois justice system, “according to a local defense attorney.” 

What’s actually happening is that Democrat politicians are knowingly allowing the murder of thousands of innocent American citizens, and when the murders take place, all too often, they urge leniency for the killer — as federal prosecutors suspect they will in the case of Gorman’s accused killer — or somehow blame the killing on Trump.  We need to recognize that illegal alien crime is not a small problem; it is a cancer that has been growing and that will continue to grow until ICE roots it out.  Nor will this kind of alien ever assimilate; those who killed these three women killed merely for the pleasure of killing, and that sort of killer does not assimilate or reform.  ICE is the only solution, and those who oppose ICE, in my opinion, are accomplices to the kinds of murder that took place in Florida, Virginia, and Illinois.

In America, congressmen and those in the Executive take an oath to defend the Constitution, and one of the key points of the Constitution is the obligation of government to “insure domestic Tranquility.”  If there was even an instance that meets the definition of upsetting domestic tranquility, it is the  murder of Minter, Gorman, and the as yet unidentified woman in Ft. Myers.  Florida’s Gov. DeSantis has done all he can to prevent killings like these in his state, but Virginia’s Spanberger seems determined to avoid deportation of dangerous criminals.  This qualifies as a violation of her oath of office and grounds for impeachment. 

The murder of the Ft. Myers woman in particular, caught on camera and widely broadcast, was a horrible act of violence and a wake-up call for those who oppose the punishment and removal of violent aliens.  Nothing will ever make our nation completely safe, but once every violent illegal alien is imprisoned or deported, America will be significantly safer.  A reduction in the number of murders in the U.S. is estimated to be in the tens of thousands, and reducing the number of murders by this amount makes the efforts of ICE well worth it.  If there was ever proof of the importance of ICE, what has happened in Florida, Virginia, and Illinois is clear evidence of its worth.

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