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The damage Gavin Newsom has done

Monday, July 21, 2025, 11:39 am | Randy Thomasson

In his recent four-hour interview in Nashville, California’s Big Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom told some real whoppers — about his Covid tyranny, his anti-gunowner policies, his pro-illegal-alien agenda, and and more.

Here’s our fact-checking of four of Newsom’s claims:

1. Newsom denied any accountability for oppressing average Californians with his iron-fisted Covid policies, saying in the interview, “we were worried” and “we didn’t know.”

FACT: Newsom imposed the most Covid “restrictions” of any governor, going far and beyond federal advice — tens of millions of Californians needlessly suffered.

As the California Globe reported 7/16/25:

On a recent podcast, host Shawn Ryan asked Gov. Gavin Newsom about his handling of the pandemic, and his decisions to lock down the entire state of California during the Covid flu.

“What are some of the things during Covid that maybe were a mistake?” Ryan asked the governor. Newsom said “we were worried it was airborne, and about people being outside,” as if that ludicrous notion wasn’t dispelled almost as quickly as it was proposed. “And we realized then, after the fact, ‘what the hell were we doing shutting down the beaches, and open areas?’” Newsom said.

California was locked down for three years, not three months. California Governor Gavin Newsom was the first governor in the nation to order a state fully locked down, and he extended out mask mandates and school and business lockdowns beyond all other states.

“Do you think some of the restrictions you put in place created a mental health crisis… by being locked up, by not being outdoors?” Ryan asked. “Oh c’mon man, of course,” Newsom replied, dislocating his shoulder to pat himself on the back. His new line is “we didn’t know.”

Gavin is now attempting to impersonate a compassionate human being and moderate politician.

He had no real answers for Shawn Ryan. Newsom flailed his jazz hands and talked in circles until Ryan moved on to another topic.

Newsom locked down the entire state of California for three years, nearly 1,095 days, claiming it was because of the Covid flu. Newsom ordered “non-essential” businesses to shut down. Newsom ordered day cares, K-12 schools and colleges and universities shut down. He ordered churches to shut down. He shut down restaurants, and even cancelled outdoor dining. California looked as if a nuclear bomb had dropped and wiped out the population but left the infrastructure standing.

Newsom had mountains of sand dumped into skate parks and playgrounds so kids could not use the equipment, and had basketball nets removed.

Newsom ordered indoor and outdoor masking and mandated the covid shot on babies and children, and all Californians, and then extorted those who wanted to go back to school and work with the shot – no shot, no work or school.

For the first time in history, healthy people were locked down by government tyrants like Gavin Newsom during the Covid flu.

Governor Newsom had Californians arrested for attempting to take an outdoor run. He arrested a lone paddle-boarder in Southern California for daring to visit an empty beach.

Governor Gavin Newsom’s lockdowns made little or no difference – other than to destroy years of kids’ education and kill off as many of the state’s small businesses as possible.

We know who the chief California tyrant is… he told us who he was every day during the COVID outbreak with his freakish television appearances demanding we “stay safe, stay home,” “shelter-in-place” for our own good… while he moved about freely; while his life went on relatively normally, vacationing, dining out with friends, traveling.

Gov. Newsom’s actions were undemocratic, authoritarian, autocratic, oppressive and tyrannical.

As the lockdowns wore on, Gov. Newsom was increasingly diabolical, offering up end dates to the masking and lockdowns, only to either fully retract those claiming “positive tests were up,” or to attach a caveat – like the unvaccinated would have to continue to wear masks indefinitely.

In June 2021, Gov. Newsom announced he would end his COVID stay-at-home order, business lockdowns, and school closures after more than 15 months… but he also said a vaccination verification system would be coming in short order – which is to say, he wanted Californians to use an electronic vaccine passport to gain entrance to businesses, work and events.

The purpose of such an electronic system was to “allow” businesses to confirm that their customers had received their shots. And those who had not taken a vaccine would be required to continue to wear masks, as a form of a “Scarlet Letter.

Newsom’s lifting of mask mandates for vaccinated individuals was just another cruel strategy to coerce compliance of the vaccination. “Get the vaccine and you can have your freedom; you can go back to normal,” was the plan.

As it turned out, California wasn’t really reopening in 2020, 2021 or even 2022, as the governor frequently teased in his daily television updates. And that was because the state was still under a statewide declaration of emergency, meaning Newsom retained his emergency authority to alter or suspend state laws – indefinitely. Which he did with great frequency.

As the Totalitarian Tyrant in Chief, Gov. Newsom issued 58 executive orders – “one-man-rule” decrees – during his statewide lockdown.

By 2023, California had lost 35.9 percent of “non-essential” businesses, which remained closed after being ordered to. More than one-third of restaurants permanently closed. Many owners were unable to pay their bills or feed their families while Home Depot, Costco and Walmart remained open, deemed “essential” by Gov. Newsom.

And Gov. Newsom was caught living his best life, dining at the French Laundry in Napa, enjoying multiple vacations out of the country while he locked down Californians. In Feb. 2022 he starred in “MaskGate” at the NFC Championship game in Los Angeles – despite his own face mask mandates.

And after Gavin Newsom was caught going maskless at that birthday party in 2020 for his political advisor Jason Kinney at the Michelin-starred French Laundry restaurant in Yountville, he said, “I want to apologize to you because I need to preach and practice, not just preach and not practice, and I’ve done my best to do that. We’re all human. We all fall short sometimes.”

It was evident that Gov. Newsom didn’t feel unsafe dining in a restaurant during the covid flu, and all of his lockdowns and mandates were a lie.

2. In the interview, Newsom claimed he’s “not anti-gun at all” and says he “celebrates” hunting rifle experiences: “What did I do on Mother’s Day? I was…doing skeet shooting…we got married in Montana, my daughter’s name is Montana, the family has a ranch out there, we’re hunters — bow-hunting for me, primarily…my son, 11 years old, got his first rifle from his grandfather, and that was a point of pride…it was emotional…my detachment…the history…the attachment to his grandfather now because of that…so again, I celebrate that.”

FACT: Newsom can tell stories all he wants about his safe vacations with his armed security guards in tow, but he’s denying Californians their own protection from home invaders and other armed assailants.

Just last year alone, Newsom signed 13 anti-gunowner bills, making it harder for law-abiding Californians to defend themselves.

As Conservative Brief reported 7/13/25:

California Governor Gavin Newsom tried to walk back his anti-gun record in a recent interview with Shawn Ryan, claiming he’s not opposed to the Second Amendment, but his political track record tells a completely different story.

In typical fashion, Newsom leaned on charm and deflection, saying he’s not “anti-gun at all” after Ryan gave him a California-compliant SIG Sauer P365 X-Macro. Newsom said his concern is with “large capacity magazine clips” and so-called “weapons of war” — the term Democrats use for the AR-15, America’s most popular rifle.

He also added he’s “sometimes” against people “out-gunning” the police, Townhall reported.

But again, the facts don’t back up his claims.

Since taking office in 2019, Newsom has signed close to 70 gun control laws. That includes SB 1327, which allows private citizens to sue over illegal firearms and parts. In 2023, he backed an 11 percent tax on all gun and ammo sales, funneling the money into school safety and gun violence prevention programs. The tax was designed to discourage gun ownership, plain and simple.

This isn’t new for Newsom either. As mayor of San Francisco in 2005, he supported Proposition H, which would have banned the sale and possession of handguns in the city. The courts struck it down, but Newsom defended it at the time by pointing to a family tragedy involving his grandfather and saying he didn’t like guns.

In 2016, as lieutenant governor, he led the charge on Proposition 63. That measure banned high-capacity magazines and required background checks for ammunition purchases. He wasn’t just a supporter — he was the official proponent of the initiative and one of its most vocal champions.

So while Newsom may now claim he respects the Second Amendment, his long history of pushing aggressive gun control tells the real story.

3. Newsom claimed California and other Democrat-controlled states are safer than Republican states: “…if you look at gun death rates and murder rates — substantially lower in the state of California and in the vast majority of blue states.”

FACT: In the last 7 years, Newsom & Co. has INCREASED CRIME by:

  • Early release of tens of thousands of criminals
  • Decriminalizing certain crimes, thus no longer counting them
  • Not prosecuting certain crimes, and again not counting those
  • Prohibiting prison sentences for virtually all property felonies, parole violations, and even crimes like assault

Newsom & the Democrats CA “realigned” prison offenses, and then redefined “recidivism.”

Furthermore, California refuses to submit full reports to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).

As reported by the California Globe on Sept. 28, 2021, even Biden & Co.’s FBI reported in 2021 that California murder rates had jumped after one full year of Newsom as governor:

The estimated number of violent crimes in the nation increased for the first time in 4 years, when compared with the previous year’s statistics, according to FBI figures. In 2020, violent crime was up 5.6 percent from the 2019 number.

In addition to undermining the state’s Three Strikes law which successfully dealt with recidivist criminals, and while disarming law-abiding California citizens with strict gun control laws, Gov. Brown and state lawmakers pushed and passed a number of initiatives that gutted the criminal justice system:

  • weakening parole (AB 109),
  • downgrading a host of crimes to misdemeanors (Prop. 47),
  • and making dangerous felons eligible for release when they have served just a portion of their sentences (Prop. 57)

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reports that 75 percent of recidivists commit their re-entry crime within a year of release. The previous definition of “recidivism” was “arrests,” rather than “convictions,” and it was within one year, not three years. Additionally, study after study has shown that between 6 percent and 10 percent of criminals are responsible for up to 70 percent of all crimes committed.

Nationwide facts from the Heritage Foundation in 2023:

“At the county level, the homicide rate has been higher in Democratic-leaning ‘blue’ counties than in Republican-voting ‘red’ counties since 2002. Crime, however, is a local issue, and analysis of crime data needs to be undertaken at the local level.”

Ask yourself — has crime gone up in your community? Look at Oakland, California’s “murder capital”:

“Oakland City Council Adds New Police Academy, More Officers Due To Rising Crime Rate: Only two council members voted no on the resolution, saying that the new academy would not solve the rise in crime” (California Globe 9/23/21)

“In-N-Out Oakland Closed Solely Due to Crime: Oakland officials tried to give other reasons for the closure” (California Globe 9/28/24)

4. In the interview, Newsom claimed he “believe(s) in border security” and would be “happy to advocate for eliminating sanctuary policy.”

FACT: In his 7 years as governor, Gavin Newsom has supported and provided many “magnets” attracting illegals to come to California.

Newsom & Co. have already awarded illegal aliens significant benefits:

— in-state tuition and financial aid
— free health care via Medi-Cal (California’s Medicaid program)
— other “health” services including taxpayer-funded abortions
— free school meals
— free food through the CalFresh program

And Newsom’s spending tax dollars on free healthcare for illegals is seriously threatening the solvency of the state budget:

As The California Conversation reported March 25:

Last week it was announced that Governor Gavin Newsom is seeking a $3.44 billion loan from California’s general fund, as well as an immediate additional $2.8 billion in funding, to cover over-budget expenses incurred by our state’s Medi-Cal program. Why is the program over budget and underfunded? There are a few factors that have gone into it, but the main reason comes down to the fact that the state expanded Medi-Cal to include coverage for illegal immigrants, and they underestimated how many of these participants would sign up to the program.

Let’s compare the numbers. In 2020, the Legislative Analyst’s Office estimated 1.15 million undocumented immigrants would enroll in Medi-Cal. Today it is estimated that there are 2.74 million undocumented immigrants in California, and those estimates are conservative and actually admit that the number is most likely much higher. While it’s fair to assume that not every illegal immigrant will enroll in Medi-Cal, it’s estimated that there are at least 700,000 more enrolled than were anticipated, and I think that it’s fair to say it’s most likely higher than that as well. Then, in terms of cost, it was also estimated that expanding the program to illegal immigrants would cost the state $3 billion; now, the actual number has ballooned to $9.5 billion for 2024.

But Newsom, fearful of looking like he can’t balance a budget, simply adjusted, instead of ending, his pro-illegal-alien policy. As the California Policy Center reported 5/16/25:

Last week it was announced that Governor Gavin Newsom is seeking a $3.44 billion loan from California’s general fund, as well as an immediate additional $2.8 billion in funding, to cover over-budget expenses incurred by our state’s Medi-Cal program. Why is the program over budget and underfunded? There are a few factors that have gone into it, but the main reason comes down to the fact that the state expanded Medi-Cal to include coverage for illegal immigrants, and they underestimated how many of these participants would sign up to the program.

And Newsom’s new $321 BILLION budget is the biggest in state history, giving illegals the rest of this year to sign up for 100% free healthcare. As you can see, Newsom’s acts are NOT for “border security,” and he’s NOT DOING ANYTHING to curtail his pro-illegal-alien “sanctuary” policies.

Therefore, putting away lying, “Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for we are members of one another.
Ephesians 4:25

He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house;
He who tells lies shall not continue in my presence.

Psalm 101:7

TOP ALERT: Urge the Trump Administration to help California in these 10 ways

Thursday, February 27, 2025, 12:50 pm | Randy Thomasson

Please scroll down to see 10 essential things you can urge the Trump Administration to do in California. But first, celebrate the good that President Trump is already doing!

Here are 3 needful ways President Trump is already helping California:

1. HALTING THE BULLET TRAIN BOONDOGGLE: In Los Angeles on Feb. 20, President Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced he’s commencing a “compliance review” into California’s wasteful “bullet train” to determine how Newsom & Co. spent $4.3 BILLION in federal funds already given.

For all practical purposes, this action will prevent new federal funding of the Democrat Party machine’s “bullet train’ boondoggle. And without federal funding, the “work” on the “train to nowhere” will likely cease due to the project’s professed dependence on federal funds.

2. PREVENT AND DEPORT INVADERS: More good news is President Trump is already fighting for American security and identity by stationing U.S. troops at our border with Mexico.

Next, you can expect a federal lawsuit against the pro-illegal-alien State of California and California “sanctuary cities” (new U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has already sued the big Democrat-Party states of Illinois and New York).

3. KEEP DRIVING WITH RELIABLE GASOLINE: You can also expect the Republican-controlled Congress to override the California “waivers” to “ban” new gasoline-powered cars as of 2035.

After Trump was reelected, Newsom & Co. sought 8 “waivers” limiting or prohibiting gasoline-powered engines “from locomotives to leaf blowers.” These awful notions of Democrat Party politicians would make electricity more costly and less reliable. Therefore, it’s a relief the Republican Congress is expected to overrule and deny them.

Yet there are ADDITIONAL, PRESSING PROBLEMS for the Trump Administration to solve in California — in at least 10 key areas!

PLEASE TAKE QUICK ACTION: Contact the White House (web form) and the U.S. Dept. of Justice (web form) to lobby them to intervene in California.

It’s most effective if you use the Trump and DOJ web forms for one subject at a time, sending up to 10 separate messages. Each time, in the subject-line field, type a clear message, such as, “Investigate election fraud in California.”

  1. Investigate, expose, and prosecute California election fraud (see more)
  2. Investigate California hospitals that still mutilate children (see more)
  3. Investigate California’s sky-high electricity rates (see more)
  4. Investigate California’s oppressive water rates and water shortages (see more)
  5. Commence aggressive forest management on all federal land in California (the U.S. government owns 45.4% of the land in California, most of it forest and other wilderness areas)
  6. Sue or join existing federal lawsuits to restore our Second Amendment rights (see more)
  7. Investigate vaccine tyranny (“take the shot or else”) where it exists — vaccines should be voluntary (see more)
  8. Investigate violations of religious liberty — for small business owners, students, employees, and more — based on the First Amendment, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and numerous federal laws
  9. Investigate violations of parental rights in federal law (see more)
  10. Investigate public corruption by elected officials of California state government and California’s big cities, at all levels (bribery, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, parochialism, patronage, influence peddling, graft, and embezzlement)

PLEASE ACT AND PLEASE SHARE!

Who will rise up for me against the evildoers?
Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

The Bible, Psalm 94:16


What President Trump did on Day 1 that I’m excited about

Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 10:51 pm | Randy Thomasson
Of the good that President Donald Trump did on his first day back to the White House, I’m most glad that he:

1. Ordered the release of nearly 1,600 political prisoners: Restoring a semblance of procedural due process so innocent Americans aren’t deemed “guilty” by the federal government, President Trump constitutionally pardoned the peaceful protestors who went into the U.S. Capitol in January 2021 on behalf of election integrity. Most have spent four years without a trial in a Washington, D.C. jail. Yet many who were just released had recently been moved to various parts of the country. Now Trump needs to free other political prisoners: Tina Peters of Colorado and Derek Chauvin of Minnesota.

2. Ordered a stop to government censorship: The practical benefit of President Trump’s First Amendment executive order is not only to stop the federal government from initiating, participating in, or otherwise pressuring web and social media platforms to trample constitutionally-protected free speech, but importantly, it tasks the incoming Attorney General with investigating and recommending “appropriate remedial actions” to ensure the U.S. government no longer censors the People, like Biden & Co. did ad nauseam.

3. Took the first step to remove transsexuals from the military: In his long list of revoking numerous Biden & Co. orders was also revoking allowing transsexuals to invade the U.S. military. This functionally restores Trump’s 2018 order forbidding biological men who pretend to be women, and biological women who pretend to be men, from enlisting or “serving” in the U.S. military. And Trump’s policy is moral and scientific: Moral, because enlisted men and women don’t want to be in showers or restrooms with the opposite sex, an awful policy that erodes esprit de corps or troop unity; scientific, because if you’ve inherited a Y chromosome from your biological father, you’re male; if not, you’re female (source — plus see these great resources: Biological Integrity and Sex Change Regret). A second executive action, perhaps from the incoming Secretary of Defense, might be needed to actually remove mentally-disturbed transsexuals from all of the armed forces.

4. Ordered the removal of “trans,” sexism, racism, and “wokeism” from the federal government: Continuing with his moral, beneficial policy distinguishing between the two sexes, President Trump issued a beautiful executive order directing every part of federal government to only recognize the two distinct sexes of male and female. This applies to documents, forms, passports, federal prisons, and importantly, restrooms in federal buildings and on federal land (including national parks).

On this same theme, a second executive order eliminates the unfair, immoral, sexist, racist “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) policies in all parts of the federal government. It will affect hiring, firing, promoting, and spending of our tax dollars. For real family values and as a role model for children and for all Americans, this is just excellent. And yet another executive order replaces DEI policies at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with merit-based hiring practices for pilots and others who fly millions of people per year. And then Trump signed another executive order implementing a new standard to be a federal government employee: Personal merit and sincere support of the written U.S. Constitution.

5. Ordered the military to secure the U.S.-Mexico border: Patriots in California and nationwide have been awaiting Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to stop the southern invasion of the United States. And even though there’s not yet a Secretary of Defense to carry out this great order, there are now acting secretaries of the U.S. armed services who can. And “Border Czar” Tom Homan says deportations have already begun.

6. Canceled U.S. involvement in tyrannical and harmful international organizations and agreements: President Trump is rightly withdrawing the United States from, and prohibiting U.S. funding of, the WHO (“World Health Organization”), which has devilish, immoral, tyrannical, Big Pharma values and goals for worldwide medical tyranny government. Trump is also withdrawing us from the United Nations’ pro-terrorism unit known as the “Relief and Works Agency,” which is funding and facilitating terrorism in the Gaza Strip on Israel’s coast and in Lebanon. And Trump is withdrawing us from the U.N’s impoverishing, anti-people, environmental-wacko Paris Agreement, which has the same goal of Democrat Party Governor Gavin Newsom — to eliminate the relatively cheap, reliable energy supply provided by oil and natural gas.

7. Lastly, I’m encouraged by one singular phrase from President Donald Trump’s inaugural address: He said he’s “learned a lot” from the personal oppression he’s experienced in the last eight years. This means he’s likely to be a better president than before — rooting out evil that he recognizes and standing on principle no matter the opposition. My hope is that Trump will humbly improve on federal judges (he nominated some bad ones because he didn’t get the advice of Christian-values legal organizations); that he will fight hard for medical freedom on vaccines and fight hardest for election integrity nationwide; and that he’ll grant an audience to former homosexuals who convince him that no one is “born gay” (because while he opposes transsexuality, Trump is still blindly promoting homosexual activists as role models for America and the world). Please pray to God in Jesus Christ’s Holy Name to give wisdom to President Donald Trump!

Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place: Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask! What shall I give you?”

And Solomon said: “You have shown great mercy to Your servant David my father, because he walked before You in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with You; You have continued this great kindness for him, and You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. Now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king instead of my father David, but I am a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in. And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted. Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?”

The speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had asked this thing. Then God said to him: “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked long life for yourself, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice, behold, I have done according to your words; see, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has not been anyone like you before you, nor shall any like you arise after you. And I have also given you what you have not asked: both riches and honor, so that there shall not be anyone like you among the kings all your days. So if you walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
Young King Solomon requests wisdom from God in the Bible, 1 Kings 3:4-14