The Problem With Gavin Newsom’s Victim Narrative

The Problem With Gavin Newsom’s Victim Narrative

By

Elie Honig,

a former federal and state prosecutor and a contributor to CAFE

California governor Gavin Newsom seems to wish ever so badly he were the target of a weaponized Justice Department. God knows he’d have plenty of company, given the Trump administration’s track record: Letitia James, James Comey, Mark Kelly, Jerome Powell, and others found themselves on the receiving end of bogus criminal investigations or prosecutions. But the available evidence and wide public reporting make clear that Newsom’s opportunistic narrative — that he’s yet another victim of Trump’s vindictive henchmen at DoJ — is simply wrong.