Newsom wants to be president. Maybe he should get his wife to be quiet.
Now Gavin Newsom’s wife went completely off the rails at the worst time possible.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom Rushes to Scold Trump After His 60 Minutes Confrontation
Leave it to the California political class to find a way to make an assassination attempt about the President’s manners.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom — wife of Governor Gavin Newsom and self-styled “First Partner” of the state — weighed in Monday after President Trump’s fiery Sunday night interview with CBS’s Norah O’Donnell. Rather than directing outrage at a would-be k-ller, Siebel Newsom chose to lecture the nation about the Commander-in-Chief’s tone.
“My family and I watched the 60 Minutes interview with Donald Trump and Norah O’Donnell last night, and we were shocked,” she posted on X. “Seeing a president speak to a woman journalist with that level of contempt — and a clear allergy to facts — is disturbing, though at this point not unexpected given his pattern of behavior.”
She went on: “Because when that level of disrespect from the highest office in the country repeats itself, it starts to trickle down into our culture and define what power looks like, shaping how boys and plenty of men see women and girls and what they come to accept as normal behavior.”
What Actually Happened in That Interview
The context, predictably, went missing from Siebel Newsom’s complaint. O’Donnell, during a Sunday evening interview in the immediate aftermath of the Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, chose to read aloud excerpts from the alleged gunman’s manifesto — a document filled with vile, debunked accusations against the President of the United States.
The suspect, 31-year-old Cole Allen of Torrance, California, had penned a screed riddled with anti-Trump and anti-Christian invective. O’Donnell recited portions on national television, prompting a sharp response from Trump.
“I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because you’re horrible people. Horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I’m not a r-pist. I didn’t r-pe anybody,” Trump said. When O’Donnell pressed further, Trump kept his foot down: “I’m not a p-dophile. You read that crap from some sick person? I got associated with all…stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let’s say, Epstein or other things. But I said to myself, ‘You know, I’ll do this interview and they’ll probably…’ I read the manifesto. You know, he’s a sick person. But you should be ashamed of yourself reading that because I’m not any of those things.”
Trump ultimately told O’Donnell: “You shouldn’t be reading that on 60 Minutes. You’re a disgrace. But go ahead. Let’s finish the interview.”
Conservatives Fire Back — and Land Direct Hits
Two prominent conservative voices responded with clarity and conviction. New York Post columnist Miranda Devine cut to the heart of the matter: “What’s really disgusting about this clip is Norah O’Donnell’s fake innocent surprise: ‘oh you think he was referring to you?’ She knows perfectly well that every day some fellow Democrat like Ted Lieu calls Trump a p-dophile and r-pist. Their white supremacy lies ran out of steam so this is the new hoax. Rich from a party that protects illegal alien child molesters.”
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was equally blunt: “Norah O’Donnell may have reached the low point in disgusting and inhumane demagoguery disguised as journalism. The idea that you would take the vicious dishonest and disgusting words of a would be k-ller who had been blocked by the Secret Service but would otherwise have k-lled a lot of people and you would dignify them by putting them on the air and asking the President of the United States to comment is about as destructive as anything a major reporter has done in a long time.”
Gingrich concluded that O’Donnell “should be fired for demeaning her entire profession and being the mouthpiece of a would-be k-ller.”
The Neswom household’s reaction speaks volumes about where California’s Democratic establishment stands: defending a television anchor who amplified an assassin’s words, while scolding the President for objecting to it.
