Newsom Goes After Fox!

Gavin Newsom is planning a 2028 run. He is planning on fighting Fox.3

California governor Gavin Newsom is suing Fox for $787 million.

He claims the network and its media personalities have slandered him. Newsom is using the successful Dominion Systems claim of intentional misinformation.

He demands Jesse Watters, a controversial Fox personality to apologize for misleading his viewers.

President Donald J. Trump posted on social media claiming that the Democratic governor lied about a conversation he had with him on Saturday.

The president called Newsom on early Saturday morning from Washington, DC.

The time zone difference meant that Newsom got the call in Sacramento late Friday evening. 

Watters claimed that Newsom lied about call and mocked him.

The lawsuit, seeking more than $787 million and filed in Delaware Superior Court, claims that Fox "operates as a propaganda machine for President Trump’s radical right-wing agenda," citing the nearly $800-million settlement the network reached with Dominion Voting Systems in 2023 over its coverage of the 2020 election, which Trump lost.

"By disregarding basic journalistic ethics in favor of malicious propaganda, Fox continues to play a major role in the further erosion of the bedrock principles of informed representative government," the lawsuit states. "Setting the record straight and confronting Fox’s dishonest practices are critical to protecting democracy from being overrun by disinformation and lies."

“Gov. Newsom’s transparent publicity stunt is frivolous and designed to chill free speech critical of him," Fox said in a statement. "We will defend this case vigorously and look forward to it being dismissed."

On June 10, a reporter asked Trump in the Oval Office when he had last spoken with Newsom. Trump replied that it was "a day ago" and that he had called the governor "to tell him, got to do a better job."

On X that same day, Newsom responded: "There was no call. Not even a voicemail."

Newsom told MSNBC on June 8 that the two had spoken late on the night of June 6, then accused Trump of being a “stone-cold liar” over the contents of their conversation.

On air on June 10, Watters claimed that Newsom had lied.

"Why would Newsom lie and claim Trump never called him? Why would he do that?" Watters said, as an on-screen banner read: "Gavin Lied About Trump's Call."

"If Fox News fails to issue a formal retraction and on-air apology, we will proceed with the lawsuit so that a jury can determine Fox News’s culpability and assign a monetary value to its 'blatantly unethical' conduct," the governor's lawyers Michael Teter and Mark Bankson wrote in a letter.

Politico first reported on the lawsuit.

The move by Newsom is in effect a troll of the Trump camp, which has aggressively used the courts to go after the media, law firms, universities and other major institutions as he tests the limits of his office's powers.

The back and forth over whether Trump called Newsom played out on national TV this month as Trump activated U.S. Marines and federalized the National Guard in response to protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Los Angeles.

Newsom slammed Trump's move in activating troops as escalatory and, despite some images of violence in the city, said existing law enforcement could have handled any violence or destruction without federal interference. He argued that the move was “purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions” and that there was “currently no unmet need.”

Democrats still reeling from the 2024 lost are hoping to win in 2026 and 2028.

It's not gonna be easy. They have a long way to go. So far they are on the wrong track and they are still emboldened to status quo politics. 

Newsom appearing on Fox, The War Room, Charlie Kirk's Poison Factory, Sean "Softball" Hannity's carnival of bullshit and NewsNation will not move Republicans. The Democrats can't get their actions together. They want to be centrists and conservatives.

Newsom is still supportive of Israel. He continues to repeat the same mistakes that cost Joe Biden and Kamala Harris their election chances.

He must prove to America that he is different from what the junk food media portrayed him as.