Susan Crabtree
Appearances
Morning Wire
Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
And that's a perfect description of what I view and what we've found that Gavin Newsom has been portraying for years.
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Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
Absolutely. Take care.
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Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
But when it comes to these wildfires... It's really startling because PG&E, it's not like other states. In California, they cozy up to the Democrats. They spread money throughout the state. And in fact, they've given Gavin Newsom and his wife $700,000 in contributions, both to his gubernatorial campaign and her gender justice films. That's her big project as the first partner of California.
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Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
And I can tell you more about that. It is pretty eye-opening, the gender justice films funded by the wildfire. What I need to stress here is that PG&E is responsible for the deadliest wildfire in California history up in Paradise. They're responsible for 84 counts of manslaughter, 84 deaths. Oh, my gosh. In Paradise.
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Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
They didn't give it as much publicity because it wasn't a wealthy area as the Palisades, but it was much deadlier. The court determined that. They were actually told to go and maintain it years ago, and they never did. just like they don't clean up the vegetation that can catch fire underneath their transmissions lines either. And it just sparked this huge deadly fire.
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Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
And we're seeing the same kind of thing with the Eaton fire. So Cal Edison is now being investigated for causing that one. It sparked a transmission line as well. And they just become these big, huge infernos. And Gavin Newsom has no problem taking money from the utilities that really are the main culprits on these fires. The Wall Street Journal found that PG&E was responsible for 1,500 fires.
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Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
That's one every two days in just six years. And they like to talk about climate change. They care so much about climate change, Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi and others. But guess what? These wildfires, they have rolled back all of the progress that these EV mandates and clean air policies have had over the course of two decades because they just spew pollution into the air.
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Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
Yes. In fact, after that big wildfire in Paradise, PG&E was going to go bankrupt because they owed so much to the victims, billions and billions of dollars. And so guess what? It was Gavin Newsom to the rescue. He did a big bailout for PG&E and he orchestrated through the governor's office using taxpayer dollars to pay for the lawyers. O'Melveny and Myers were the lawyers.
Morning Wire
Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
They had been on the PG&E payroll for decades. So it's basically he used... PG&E's lawyers to craft a bailout for them that would prevent them from going bankrupt and to stay alive. And actually, it inculcates them from any more problems with wildfires. They have this new wildfire trust fund that gets paid out, but it's only based on the value of PG&E stock.
Morning Wire
Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
So if PG&E's stock goes down, the victims get less money. It's a real racket.
Morning Wire
Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
Yes, Edison's the parent company. SoCal Edison is being investigated for the Eaton Fire, and that had 17 victims, 17 deaths in that fire, and just devastation everywhere. It wasn't as affluent as the Palisades. It was more middle class, upper middle class area. And yeah, SoCal Edison is involved...
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Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
Newsom appoints the regulators to what is known as the Public Utility Commission, and they just let these utilities skate. And it's a revolving door, too. So the public utility commissioners, they often go from the utility commission to PG&E and SoCal Edison, and they go right back to It's a big revolving door.
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Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
And actually, SoCal Edison recently hired Biden's energy secretary, Granholm, to sit on their boards in the middle of this big scandal that they're facing for causing the Eaton fire. And guess what? She had just given them $600 million from taxpayer money just six months ago for grid innovation. So... Yeah, it's there. I'm telling you, the Democrats are in cahoots with the utilities in California.
Morning Wire
Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
It's not like other states. And it shouldn't be inevitable that every year we have these wildfires.
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Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
Yeah, it's my pleasure.
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Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
So Gavin Newsom is under Supreme Court order to do something about the prison overcrowding in California. That was a Supreme Court decision from 2011. But instead of building more prisons, he wants to empty out the prisons. So he found a very, very good excuse in COVID. So there was all this concerns in the nursing homes that COVID was spreading rapidly. And that was true.
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Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
But they had much less of a problem in the prisons. But Gavin Newsom said, we want to make sure there's not some kind of death spiral going on in our prison system. And therefore, we're going to let 70,000 prisoners out for early release. Now, what I'm told by a whistleblower who was a top official in the prison system, he said he recommended against that to Newsom.
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Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
He said, actually, the COVID rates inside the prison are far less than outside in the community. So there's no reason to release these. Some of them were violent criminals. And nope, Newsom went ahead. He did not abide by that advice. He said it doesn't matter. He told the public that's the reason why they were doing it. And these tens of thousands of prisoners were released. And guess what?
Morning Wire
Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
Well, it's interesting because everything that Gavin Newsom does is performative, not performance-based. He's been given everything on a silver platter, whether it's his admissions to college, his wine dynasty that was fueled by Getty money, or his rise in politics. It's all been given through his family connections with the Gettys and other political connections like Willie Brown and others.
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Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
Then we had a huge smash and grab problem at businesses across the state. And you can't even go into a drugstore in California without having to ask for your conditioner to be unlocked because it's behind locked cases. And this is who we have to blame for it. He saw no connection there between the smash and grabs.
Morning Wire
Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
He's never mentioned it, that they might be connected to the prisoners who were released during COVID.
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Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
So in 2013, he supported the law that legalized trans athletes' participation in girls in high school and women's sports in college. So he was asked by Ro Khanna over the weekend whether he was going to reverse that policy. I also asked his office afterwards whether he was going to reverse any policies. And they just pointed me to the comments with Charlie Kirk and highlighted in yellow that
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Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
his concern about the vulnerable citizens, the vulnerable trans people, that they're susceptible, higher susceptibility to suicide. But his comments were just so glib.
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Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
But meanwhile, in 2022, he had declared the state of California a trans sanctuary state, meaning that anybody who were other states were outlawing trans surgery or trans medical care, they could come. And of course, they would not be prosecuted in California. So no, he has no plans to reverse those policies. He has no plans to overturn the transgender athlete rule in the state.
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Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
California is one of 24 states where that is legal. So it's all performative. He says things he doesn't really mean. He talked about in the Charlie Kirk podcast that it's the mask you live in, which is interestingly enough, one of the titles of his wife's gender justice films.
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Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25
Talks about how he feels that you fill into the masses, that you live in a mask and you keep getting promoted to new positions and you just fill in the mass. You become the person that the people want you to be or that your base wants you to be, but you have no internal convictions. That's what it seems to be saying.