Gavin Newsom: “700 active duty Marines were not sent overseas. They were…”

“This was just a few months after 4,000 National Guard were federalized in the state of California. 700 active duty Marines were not sent overseas. They were sent to the second largest city in the United States of America. The full militarization almost 5,000 troops in one city, a war against his own country, Donald Trump. But when I saw the masked men with no identification, I said at the time, that is a preview of things to come.” (47:54–48:01)

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