“Donald Trump is, simply, the most corrupt president in American history,” Newsom said while announcing the investigation.
Jacob Knutson at Democracy Docket:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said Monday that President Donald Trump directed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate him and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom. The alleged probe marks the department’s latest high-profile investigation against one of the president’s political foes.
“Donald Trump isn’t coming after me just because of my mean tweets. He’s coming after me because I’m considering running for president. Because he hates that I’ve called him out over and over again for his lies and deceit,” Newsom said in a video statement.
Newsom said federal agents in recent days have tried to question his friends, family members and former employees as part of the investigation, which he said was initiated “not because they found a crime, but because they’re simply trying to find one.”
“They’re demanding records. They’re abusing the grand jury process, digging through years and years of random documents,” he said.
Newsom, whose term ends in January 2027, is barred by term limits from running for reelection. He’s said he’s considering a run for president in 2028. While laying the groundwork for that potential national campaign, Newsom has become one of the most prominent critics of Trump.
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“Donald Trump is, simply, the most corrupt president in American history,” Newsom said in his video statement. “He’s turning the levers of government into his own personal power ministries to reward cronies and try to jail his opponents.”
Newsom also had a message for Trump: “You can subpoena my records. You can investigate me. You can harass me — put my name on every and any enemies list you have. But leave my wife and family out of your personal vendetta.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) gave a very scary mention today that he and his wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom were being “investigated” by the Trump Regime’s US Dept. of Injustice as retaliation for opposing the Trump Regime and a way to weaken his potential Presidential bid for 2028.
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The Guardian: Gavin Newsom says Trump directed DoJ to investigate him and his wife
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‼️In Dnipro, 9 people were killed as a result of a Russian attack. The fate of 6 more people is unknown, the search is ongoing, President Zelenskyi said.
‼️In Dnipro, the bodies of a woman and an 8-year-old boy were pulled from the rubble. The number of people killed in the city has increased to 11 people.
‼️A 22-year-old man who was injured during the Russian attack in Dnipro on June 2 died in hospital. The number of people killed has increased to 17, the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration reported.
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Millions of dollars’ worth of contraceptives meant to be distributed to low-income nations in Africa have expired, but the Trump administrat
Millions of dollars' worth of contraceptives meant to be distributed to low-income nations in Africa have expired, but the Trump administration is paying tens of thousands of dollars a month to keep them in storage in Belgium, according to a report from the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) inspector general.Â
About $9.7 million worth of taxpayer-funded contraceptives purchased by USAID and originally destined for low-income nations in Africa got stuck in Belgium after the Trump administration shut down the agency last year.Â
According to the report, about $8 million worth of hormonal contraceptives, injectable contraceptives and other family planning commodities are no longer usable after they were moved from climate-controlled storage. Â
But the administration has been paying approximately $5,000 per month to store those unusable products. Â
The additional $1.7 million in family planning commodities remain viable and continue to be stored in climate-controlled facilities in Geel, Belgium, the report stated. However, the expiration dates on that supply are approaching in the coming years, and the administration has not presented a plan on what it intends to do with them.Â
Expiration dates for these items range from April 2028 to September 2031.Â
Meanwhile, USAID has paid more than $360,000 in storage and freight costs for the contraception commodities between January 2025 and March 2026, according to the advisory. Â
The advisory, sent to USAID principal and Chief Operating Officer Eric Ueland, said the storage costs will escalate and warned that without a final plan from USAID, the remaining commodities will go to waste.Â
In Minnesota and nationally, Democrats are at a crossroads in defining who they are as a party. Party leaders failed to offer a collective path forward after a crushing loss in the 2024 presidential election and amid an incredibly dark two years of GOP domination in Washington. Progressives and moderates seem even further apart on what they think it takes to win elections and what voters want in the November midterms.
Craig, a four-term congresswoman who flipped her suburban Twin Cities district from red to blue in 2018, seems to think “electability” and a record of working well with Republicans are what Democratic voters are looking for. In normal times, maybe it would have been.
But the Immigration and Customs Enforcement invasion scrambled everything. It jolted the state’s already civic-minded Democratic base to get even more engaged; a whopping 57% of the delegates at the party’s convention were first-time participants.
Mohamed, for one, said a main reason he was backing Flanagan was that, after the DFL endorsement process began in February and as the ICE occupation was in full force, Faith In Minnesota, a racial and economic justice nonprofit he is associated with, invited both Senate candidates to meet with them. Only Flanagan came.
“Angie Craig never showed up,” he said. “Peggy did come. We’ve been meeting with her.”
The invasion flipped the local political environment, replacing voter anger over the state’s fraud scandal — which Republicans used to justify the immigration crackdown — with far deeper resentment of the Trump administration. Republicans, who thought they had an edge because of dissatisfaction with Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, are now seen as long shots for any statewide success.
And it turned Craig’s votes for stronger immigration enforcement from smart plays for the center of the electorate into millstones associating her with a despised invasion. In January 2025, the congresswoman voted for a Republican bill that gave President Donald Trump new powers to detain immigrants accused of crimes, paving the way for the administration’s ICE assault on Minnesota. She also voted for a GOP resolution last summer condemning an antisemitic attack that included a line expressing gratitude to ICE “for protecting the homeland.”
The result has given Flanagan clear momentum and left Craig making arguments about the fraud case and electability at a time when Democratic voters think they have little reason to care about either of those things.
In an interview, Flanagan said Craig’s campaign effort seems like “a great strategy for 2016.”
“Things have changed here,” she said. “Minnesota was rocked by Operation Metro Surge that she played a hand in by her Laken Riley vote and by praising ICE. That’s for real.”
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A pivotal moment in Flanagan’s campaign was a couple of weeks ago, when she stood on stage at the Democratic Party’s state convention and accepted her party’s endorsement for Senate.
A community organizer by trade, Flanagan’s speech assailed Trump’s war in Iran and his plans for a lavish, taxpayer-funded White House ballroom. She vowed to fight to raise the federal minimum wage, codify access to abortion and pass Medicare for All. She also took a thinly veiled shot at Craig, lumping her in with nameless powerful people in Washington who she said have left regular Americans behind.
“We got here in part because too many Democrats have been weak,” Flanagan said to cheers from the event’s 1,200 delegates. “Everywhere I go, people tell me they’re sick and tired of Democrats bending to Republicans and fighting from a defensive crouch. We can’t just be the lesser of two evils, and we will never, ever win by being a pale shadow of our opponents.”
Craig wasn’t there for Flanagan’s comments. In fact, she was nowhere near her party’s convention. She was at a brewery more than an hour away in the town of Woodbury, hosting a roundtable with a dozen people her campaign described as “disaffected voters,” though one turned out to be a Democratic state legislator, Rep. Ethan Cha.
With beers flowing, the congresswoman told the group she didn’t want her state party’s endorsement anyway and had always planned to run directly for the primary. She said her time was better spent meeting directly with the 550,000 people in the state expected to vote in the primary election, not with the 1,200 Democratic delegates gathered in Rochester.
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She also argued that Flanagan is vulnerable in the general election because Republicans are eager to tie her to Minnesota’s fraud scandal, which centers on the nonprofit Feeding Our Future in 2021 exploiting a federal child nutrition program to steal $250 million. Federal prosecutors charged dozens of people in the case, and the group’s leader was sentenced to 41 years in prison. Gov. Walz responded by working with the state Legislature to put new anti-fraud measures in place, but the situation roiled his administration and was part of the reason he dropped his reelection bid this year.
Trump, who ran against Walz in 2024 when he was Kamala Harris’ vice presidential pick, has been trying to breathe new life into the issue and directed fresh investigations into the matter, baselessly accusing Walz and other Democrats of facilitating that fraud. Craig’s argument is that Flanagan, by proxy, is culpable.
“Primary voters, if they care about winning, do they care that selecting Peggy Flanagan is putting in the person who’s been responsible for the last eight years’ No. 2 in state government?” said the congresswoman. “Republicans are dying to run against Peggy Flanagan because they believe they will be able to attach the fraud issues to her.”
A Minnesota US Senate primary between Angie Craig and Peggy Flanagan has been a test of which direction the Democratic Party goes, with Flanagan well to the left of Craig.
The ICE raids of Minneapolis/St. Paul further divided the already volatile race.
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