Gavin Newsom: “He flamed the fires. This is exactly what he wanted. This is…”

“We're in the emergency operations center as these protests continue to rage as Donald Trump has federalized the National Guard first and foremost. Did the National Guard need to come into California? Of course not. He flamed the fires. This is exactly what he wanted. This is what he intended by illegally acting to federalize the National Guard. We're going to be initiating a lawsuit first thing tomorrow morning. And it did exactly what we told his team it would do. It would inflame the anxiety, would inflame the conditions.” (00:13–00:22)

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