Gavin Newsom accuses Trump administration of spreading fake protest images
Gavin Newsom accuses Trump administration of spreading fake protest images
The president deployed 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles in response to anti-ICE protests.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31383170
California Governor Gavin Newsom has accused the Trump administration of deliberately spreading doctored and misleading images of recent protests in Los Angeles.
On X, formerly Twitter, the Department of Defense's Rapid Response account posted a video that appeared to show burning, graffitied police cars during protests in Los Angeles this week.
However, the fact-checking website Snopes said the image showed protests in Los Angeles following the death of George Floyd in May 2020.
Gavin Newsom has let L.A. burn to the ground...
Oh god, this old chestnut they keep trotting out. (Remember all those "entire cities burned to the ground" by Antifa and BLM 5 years ago?)
on so many occasions
Wait, what? Now they're claiming the same governor has let the same city burn to the ground "on so many occasions"?
Well then, he gets my vote! If he's competent enough to oversee rebuilding a burned metropolis not once, not twice but "so many" times in just two terms, this guy clearly gets shit done!
let los angeles burn to the ground
To be fair he kinda did, but that was months ago, and trump tried to make it worse
Technically that was Altadena.