California Governor Gavin Newsom has discovered a new way to troll the Trump administration by launching a website that tracks President Donald Trump’s “legal cronies.”
Newsom’s workforce launched the site Tuesday, alongside with crime statistics that present falling charges of violent crime throughout main cities in California.
“With crime dropping — once more — California is proving what actual public security management appears to be like like,” Newsom mentioned. “In the meantime in D.C., Trump is a felon who surrounds himself with scammers and drug traffickers.”
Trump is labeled “legal in chief” within the information launch, with the phrase “felon” branded across his 2023 mugshot.
“We’re offering the general public with a useful resource placing the details in a single place so Californians, and all Individuals, can see who he elevates and who he protects,” Newsom added.
It’s the newest instance of how Newsom’s workforce is making an attempt to mirror the Trump administration’s personal techniques and use public sources to goal the president’s political enemies.
Within the information launch, Newsom mentioned he was launching the website to element “the legal data, corruption instances, and extremist ties of the individuals Donald Trump elevates, protects, pardons, and surrounds himself with.”
These featured within the line-up, full with AI-generated mugshots, embody the cryptocurrency Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, who was pardoned in October after pleading responsible to cash laundering fees in 2023. The billionaire has ties to the Trump household’s crypto enterprise World Liberty Monetary, which Newsom highlighted within the launch.
Trump’s pardon of the previous president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández, who the Justice Division as soon as mentioned was on the middle of the “largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies on the earth,” additionally made the listing.
Hernández was sentenced last year to 45 years in prison after he was convicted of accepting thousands and thousands of {dollars} in bribes and importing 500 tons of cocaine into the US.
Different offenders on the listing embody Ross Ulbricht, the founding father of dark-web drug market Silk Highway who was pardoned by Trump in 2015, and former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted of a number of political corruption fees and likewise pardoned by Trump.
Newsom and his press workforce have been trolling Trump for months by mimicking the president’s personal social media model of writing aggressively in capital letters and by producing AI memes at his expense.
