Senator Alex Padilla Responds to Trump Attack on California

The MeidasTouch Podcast

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Politics, News

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🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s meltdown on the White House lawn where he threatened to arrest California Governor Gavin Newsom and Meiselas speaks with California Senator Padilla about his response to Trump’s attacks against Los Angeles. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.5	Moments ago, Donald Trump was having a meltdown on the White House lawn.
1:11.7	He was calling for California governor Gavin Newsom to be arrested.
1:16.3	He was asked a question about, said, Gavin Newsom, this is what the question from Fox.
1:22.1	Gavin Newsom is daring Tom Homan to come and arrest him.
1:26.8	Should he do it? That's actually not what Gavin Newsom was
1:29.2	doing at all. It was actually Trump's borders are making threats against California governor
1:34.9	Gavin Newsom and others. I'll play that clip in just a moment, but before Donald Trump said that,
1:39.5	he then posted this about Los Angeles and California. He wrote, we made a great decision in sending
1:46.2	in the National Guard to deal with the violent, instigated riots in California. If we had not done so,
1:53.8	Los Angeles would have been completely obliterated. The very incompetent governor, Gavin Newscom,
1:59.6	and mayor, and he puts that in quotes.
2:01.5	Karen Bass should be saying, thank you, President Trump.
2:04.5	You are so wonderful.
2:05.5	We would be nothing without you, sir.
2:08.0	Instead, they choose to lie to the people of California and America, but I don't want to read the rest because it's so utterly despicable.
2:14.4	Donald Trump's been targeting hardworking communities with ice raids here. He's been
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