Trump sets sights on Gavin Newsom as he launches California fraud investigation

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that his administration had launched a new “fraud investigation” into California, railing against California Gov. Gavin Newsom as leading a state “more corrupt than Minnesota.”

“California, under Governor Gavin Newscum, is more corrupt than Minnesota, if that’s possible???” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “The Fraud Investigation of California has begun. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Trump’s reference to Minnesota comes in the wake of the alleged mass fraud scandal, sparked by MAGA influencer Nick Shirley’s controversial investigation into Somali daycares, an investigation that Trump himself has seized on in calling all Somalian immigrants “garbage.”

Trump has also accused California, without evidence, of being fraught with government fraud, and on Tuesday apparently made good on his accusations by formally launching an investigation into California’s government.