CNN conservative melts down over Newsom's 'litany of complaints'

CNN commentator and longtime GOP insider Scott Jennings tore into California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday, accusing him of launching a presidential campaign “on top of this lawlessness” in Los Angeles.

The fiery remarks from Jennings came moments after the Democratic governor delivered a nationally televised address accusing Trump of unleashing a “military dragnet” across Los Angeles. But Jennings wasted no time unloading on Newsom over what he mocked as a “litany of complaints” in his speech.

“It's amazing to me,” Jennings said on CNN. “First of all, this guy is the governor of a state, and it has got one of its most important cities burning on his watch, and he's out here launching a presidential campaign.

Jennings blasted Newsom for pivoting from Trump’s military deployment in Los Angeles to broader attacks on the federal government, misinformation and political control.

“He went down a litany of things that have nothing to do with what's happening in California,” Jennings added. “We get this litany of complaints from Gavin Newsom about everything, about how much the Democrats in California have failed.”

The CNN conservative commentator blasted Newsom’s address as “opportunistic.” Newsom, in his video message Tuesday evening, warned that “the moment we have feared has arrived,” and called the president’s actions in his state a threat to democracy.

But Jennings quickly dismissed the Democrat’s framing of the fast-moving events.

“All that's happening in California is that a bunch of foreign nationals have occupied large swaths of the United States,” Jennings said. “One city is burning, and the president of the United States is trying to bring order. That’s all that's happening.”

Jennings added: “And people are going to wonder, ‘why in the world is the governor of California complaining about Harvard when one of his cities is on fire?’”

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