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Instagram posts
stated on January 15, 2025 an Instagram post

“Gavin Newsom directed the removal of Elon Musk from the command post and ordered Cal Fire firefighters to return donated starlinks.”

January 29, 2025

Instagram posts
stated on November 9, 2024 an Instagram post

Fox News reported California Gov. Gavin Newsom “will withhold” California’s federal income tax.

November 20, 2024

Threads posts
stated on November 10, 2024 a Threads post

California Gov. Gavin Newsom “is considering plans to secede from the union.”

November 11, 2024

Viral image
stated on November 2, 2023 an Instagram post

Video shows California Gov. Gavin Newsom falling down airplane stairs.

November 8, 2023

Instagram posts
stated on October 2, 2023 an Instagram post

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is “not human.”

October 5, 2023

Viral image
stated on August 22, 2023 a Facebook post

Fox News reported that California Gov. Gavin Newsom said former President Donald Trump “is not eligible for future presidential elections & has asked the California’s State Assembly to pass a bill that will remove Trump’s name on any future ballots.”

August 25, 2023

Viral image
stated on November 15, 2022 an Instagram post

Photo shows “ballots not counted in California and this is only one polling location. Yet Gavin Newsom was declared governor minutes after polling stations closed.”

November 17, 2022

Steve Kirsch
stated on November 9, 2021 an article

“Gavin Newsom is out of sight likely because he has Guillain-Barre syndrome from his booster shot.”

By Monique Curet • November 10, 2021

Viral image
stated on August 3, 2021 an Instagram post

“Due to the new ‘delta variant’ California will be mailing in ballots for recall election.”

August 6, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on July 22, 2021 a Facebook post

“Ambassador Susan Rice Tribunal, Gavin Newsom indicted.”

July 26, 2021

Viral image
stated on September 19, 2020 a Facebook post

“Guess who is the marketing CEO of Zoom? Pelosi’s daughter/Newsome’s cousin.”

September 23, 2020

Viral image
stated on September 12, 2020 a Facebook post

Map shows that wildfires stop at the US.-Canada border.

September 15, 2020

Instagram posts
stated on August 31, 2020 social media posts

California voters who go to the polls to vote in person will be “TURNED AWAY & CANNOT VOTE” unless they change their voting preference to “NO to mail in voting.”

By Chris Nichols • September 1, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on May 26, 2020 a tweet

California Gov. Gavin Newsom “is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one" and the election is "Rigged."

By Chris Nichols • May 26, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on May 14, 2020 a Facebook post

If masks prevent coronavirus, governors would have given them to prison inmates instead of releasing them.

May 19, 2020

John Cox
stated on October 8, 2018 a campaign debate

Says Gavin Newsom "didn’t solve the homeless problem at all" as mayor of San Francisco, "and it’s gotten worse."

By Chris Nichols • October 8, 2018

Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on March 5, 2018 a news release

California’s single-payer healthcare proposal would "force seniors off of Medicare."

By Chris Nichols • March 8, 2018

Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on September 20, 2017 a newspaper article

California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom was "for (high-speed rail), before he’s against it, and then he’s for it again."

By Chris Nichols • September 29, 2017

Firearms Policy Coalition
stated on June 16, 2016 an email blast.

California’s Proposition 63 would "CRIMINALIZE the sharing of ammunition between friends who may be hunting or shooting together."

By Chris Nichols • July 12, 2016

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