
'Stone Cold Liar': Gavin Newsom Puts Trump On Blast For Fantasizing Phone Call
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Newsom offered a brief yet blistering summary of his talk with the president just before he deployed the National Guard to protests in Los Angeles.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) dialed up his criticism of Donald Trump on Thursday as he slammed the president’s claims that they spoke over the phone about deploying the National Guard to respond to protests in Los Angeles.
“He has quite literally made up components of that conversation. He’s been a stone cold liar about what he said we talked about. He never discussed the National Guard. Period, full stop,” Newsom said.
Newsom spoke to reporters in response to a federal judge’s order for Trump to return control of National Guard troops to his state, a ruling that was temporarily blocked by a federal appeals court just hours later.
Newsom said he last talked with Trump late night on June 6 (early morning on June 7 in Washington), a call he described as being about 20 minutes long and one where Trump wanted to discuss “all these other issues” instead of LA.
He told reporters that he’d “love” to share what the president and him “actually” discussed but he reveres the office to a degree where he won’t.