{"id":1231,"date":"2025-06-12T02:47:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T02:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2025-06-12T02:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T02:47:04","slug":"newsom-lays-bare-trumps-authoritarian-threat-mother-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=1231","title":{"rendered":"Newsom Lays Bare Trump\u2019s Authoritarian Threat \u2013 Mother Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1139900\">\n<article class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div class=\"hero is-image \">\n\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-caption\">Gavin Newsom&#8217;s address to California on June 10, 2025<\/span><span class=\"media-credit\">ca.gov<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mj-text-cta\">Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/newsletters\/?mj_oac=Article_Top_No_Oligarchs\" data-ga-category=\"TopOfArticle\" data-ga-label=\"NewsletterPromoCovid\" data-ga-action=\"click|https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/newsletters\/?mj_oac=Article_Top_Support\">Sign up for the free <em>Mother Jones Daily<\/em>.<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"section-lead\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom<\/span> on Tuesday warned Americans in a televised address that the country is witnessing the initial phases of American democracy\u2019s slide toward authoritarianism with the president\u2019s deployment of the military to respond to peaceful protests in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"C3DKmottFCc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gavin Newsom calls out Trump&#039;s authoritarian threat. #gavinnewsom #laprotests #trump\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C3DKmottFCc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cCalifornia may be first, but it clearly will not end here,\u201d Newsom said. \u201cOther states are next. Democracy is next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocracy is under assault right before our eyes,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe moment we\u2019ve feared has arrived.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The speech, which many remarked resembled that of a wartime president, further appeared to cement Newsom\u2019s role as the Democratic Party\u2019s primary voice of opposition, after repeatedly blasting Trump\u2019s actions in LA.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s deployment of the military came in response to Los Angeles residents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/06\/la-protest-ice-raid-trump-immigration-dhs-national-guard-workplace-raid\/\">protesting<\/a> ICE\u2019s workplace raids in the region, a key point in the president\u2019s plot to increase mass deportations across the country. The demonstrations, which started Friday, were overwhelmingly peaceful\u2014until Trump\u2019s call to send in the National Guard. Trump has since <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/ap-trump-authorizes-additional-2000-national-guard-members-to-los-angeles-us-officials-say\/\">deployed<\/a> more National Guard members, as well as the Marines, to the city. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the heavy condemnation, Trump is showing no signs of descalation. As he explicitly warned on Tuesday, anyone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/06\/trump-makes-it-clear-his-military-response-in-los-angeles-is-just-the-start\/\">protesting his military parade<\/a> this weekend\u2014even peacefully\u2014would be met with \u201cvery heavy force.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/06\/newsom-trump-speech-authoritarian\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gavin Newsom&#8217;s address to California on June 10, 2025ca.gov Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday warned Americans in a televised address that the country is witnessing the initial phases of American democracy\u2019s slide toward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-usa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}