Gavin Newsom: “The tariffs are a corruption story.”

“The Trump story is a story of corruption. It's a corruption story. The Witkoff family, the Trump family, world financial literate. The tariffs are a corruption story. Why do you think he was weepy around the loss of the tariff? Because that was about his personal portfolio as much or more than anything else.” (1:00:02–1:00:05)

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