The conflict between California Governor Gavin Newsom and Donald Trump over ICE raids in Los Angeles and the federalization of the National Guard has escalated today as the LAPD puts the City of Angels on tactical alert over anti-deportation protests and resistance.
In a whirl of events Sunday in a very tense LA, Newsom and Chief Jim McDonnell both are trying to grasp back control of the state and city from the tough-talking and heavy-handed Trump and stop things from escalating – with the Governor calling POTUS a “dictator.”
Earlier today, Trump took to his usual bully pulpit of social media proclaimed in his hyperbolic manner that “a once great American City, Los Angeles, has been invaded and occupied by Illegal Aliens and Criminals.” Going on a factually challenged rant, the f