California Governor Gavin Newsom is trading blows with the White House after a risky military stunt in his state went off the rails.

“We make a spelling mistake. You make deadly mistakes,” the top Democrat’s press team wrote Monday in his latest salvo against the Rapid Response 47 account, run by President Donald Trump’s office. “By the way, thanks for admitting you lied to Americans—live munitions were fired over a public freeway, putting civilians needlessly in harm’s way.”

Things first popped off late Thursday after Newsom’s account posted a New York Times headline that ran: “Military Plans to Fire Artillery Over California Freeway on Saturday.” The exercise, held at Camp Pendleton on the Southern California Coast to celebrate the Marines’ 250th anniversary, was later canceled after a

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