Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) scoffed Thursday night at President Donald Trump's derogatory nickname for him after the state scored an early court win in its battle to prevent the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard to quell protests in Los Angeles.
Newsom talked to reporters after U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from federalizing the state's National Guard troops. The judge concluded the plaintiffs "demonstrated that the balance of equities tips in their favor and that an injunction restraining the President's use of military force in Los Angeles is in the public interest."
During a question-and-answer session, Newsom addressed one of Trump's favorite attacks: "Newscum."
"I learned about it when I saw some tweet about 'Governor Newscum,'" Newsom said, answering a reporter's question about how he learned that his authority over the California National Guard had been overridden. "A nickname, by the way, that's hardly original. There was an eighth grader on Baltimore Street in Corte Madera that used to call me that."
"And the reference to the National Guard being commandeered in that same tweet—that's how I learned about it."
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