SHOCKING: Gavin Newsom’s Counterfeit Version of Trump

For a guy who is constantly criticizing President Donald Trump, California Governor Gavin Newsom is once again taking a page right out of Trump’s playbook, this time announcing plans to deploy state “crime suppression teams” to surge into specific crime-ridden areas of California.

As reported:

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) will deploy “crime suppression teams” throughout the state amid President Trump’s crime crackdown.

“When the state and local communities work together strategically, public safety improves. While the Trump Administration undermines cities, California is partnering with them — and delivering real results,” Newsom said in a press release.

“With these new deployments, we’re doubling down on these partnerships to build on progress and keep driving crime down,” he continued.

Teams of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) will work with local law enforcement in San Diego, Inland Empire, Los Angeles, Central Valley, Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Sound familiar? That’s because it’s very similar to President Trump’s surge on crime in our nation’s capital – the one we just discussed yesterday – a policy that even D.C.’s far-Left mayor had to concede is working. Newsom publicly criticized it, calling it a “rule of cruelty.”

But despite his performative rhetoric, back in the real world, it once again seems like Newsom’s strategy is to hear a good idea from Republicans, criticize it, and then copy it as though it were his own. And at the end of the day, I’m always in favor of whatever is best for the American people – in this case, keeping the people of California safe. If we must endure Newsom artfully copying off Trump’s paper and then patting himself on the back, so be it. But it would be easier if everybody just worked together.

Our friend and U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Special Missions Ric Grenell joined the broadcast with his analysis on the latest news out of his home state and Newsom’s track record of being completely disconnected from working Californians:

Gavin Newsom has been the governor for seven years. And he hasn’t concentrated on stopping crime. Matter of fact, if you look at the one-party control in Sacramento, they’ve done some really horrible things with trying to make sure that the state allows the perpetrators of crime a safe haven. We call it sanctuary states or sanctuary cities, . . . and the people are really outraged. One of the reasons why Gavin is responding is that President Trump tapped into the people after the Palisades fire. Cutting through the bureaucracy and doing commonsense leadership was really popular in Los Angeles, the largest city in California. And so, when President Trump talks about having the federal government come in, clean up the homeless encampments, clean up the crime, clean up the filth in our inner cities, this is extremely popular with people who didn’t even vote for President Trump – and Gavin Newsom is feeling that.

And so what is he doing? He’s responding at the end of his term in a way to just pretend like he did something – because he’s actually running for President. And so he’s responding to the law and order issue very late, too late. Only it’s going to be halfway because he still has people in his party, lobbyists, and the media in California trained to think that it’s not a problem of just law enforcement.

In fact, Newsom often seems more concerned for the criminal than he is for his law-abiding constituents. As Ric reminded everyone:

He has literally made fun of cops, police officers. People don’t want to be on the streets protecting us because they don’t get supported by the politicians in California . . .

Gavin Newsom and his team messaged for a very long time, very loudly, that when you were committing a crime, robbing a store, or burglary, if it wasn’t a value over $1,000, the police weren’t going to get involved. And that was something that these Left-wing politicians thought, You know, let’s concentrate on the bigger crime and let petty theft just go. Well, the problem is that everyone started walking into stores, brick-and-mortar stores, grabbing $900 and walking out, knowing they wouldn’t be prosecuted. It became chaos. It still is.

You see the homelessness everywhere . . . it’s really chaos, and Gavin and his team, his team of Left-wing leaders, they just haven’t cared until President Trump pressured them.

We’ll continue to watch this situation in California and see if Newsom enforces law and order as effectively as President Trump has been able to in Washington.

Today’s Sekulow broadcast included more analysis of Newsom’s latest, yet strangely familiar, announcement, with Ric and my brother, ACLJ Executive Director Jordan Sekulow, as well as a legal update in our fight to defund abortion giant Planned Parenthood and save innocent babies.

Watch the full broadcast below: