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How Deep Are the Newsoms in It? THIS Deep
Investigating California Gov. Newsom’s financial dealings and political controversies in detail.
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17 Jun 2026 ~~ By Stephan
It seems impossible — or just too revolting — to keep up with the financial hanky-panky of California Gov. Gavin Newsom and First Partner (gag) Jennifer Siebel Newsom. But thanks to a couple of investigative reporters with stronger stomachs than I have, let's see if I can't put everything you need to know into one easily digestible column.
I love it when other people do my dirty work for me, so let's get started.
"Today, my wife & I joined Donald Trump’s hit list," Newsom practically boasted on Monday. "He has directed his Department of Justice to investigate us. They have not found a crime — they are simply trying to find one."
Well, let's see what Fox Business anchor
Liz MacDonald and my old friend and Red State colleague Jen Van Laar have to say about that.
MacDonald said Tuesday that the DOJ probe "is about California Democrats’ modern-day machine politics," which she described as a "feedback loop of Sacramento-corporate lobbyists-governor/wife nonprofit-behested nonprofit donations-lucrative state contracts-Sacramento."
~Snip~
As governor, Newsom requested a record $226 million in behested payments in one year. "Hundreds of thousands of dollars went to the California Partners Project," MacDonald wrote, "a nonprofit founded by his wife."
"Many of the biggest donors were corporate giants (like health insurers and utility companies) actively bidding for lucrative state contracts or fighting state regulations."
One hand washes the other with filthy lucre, if you'll allow me to mix metaphors.
Which brings us to Jen Van Laar, and her hip-deep-in-the-muck wade through the Newsoms' finances, going back
years.
Don't bother writing all this down — there won't be a quiz at the end of today's column. You're welcome.
~Snip~
Way back in 2021, Jen asked, "
Somebody Paid $3.7 Million Cash for CA Gov Newsom's Estate - But Who?" But couldn't come up with any satisfactory answers. That's because the Newsoms alternately claimed that "the Newsoms’ cash was used to purchase the home but was done through an LLC managed by his first cousin," or that "Newsoms obtained a loan… to purchase the home because the sale happened so quickly that they didn’t have time to obtain a mortgage."
Then, California's First Couple played similar LLC games, buying a second home for $9.1 million in ritzy Marin County. "Based on my examination of 15+ yrs of Newsom's financial disclosures, tax returns, and real estate transactions," Jenn
explained in March, "they absolutely did not have $9.1M in cash."
Clearly,
somebody did.
The shenanigans were so egregious that — no matter what TDS nonsense Newsom's social media team posts on X — the DOJ investigation began under the Biden administration. As I quipped on Instapundit this week, maybe Newsom needs to take a break from social media and lawyer up.
Then there are the real-world effects, the fallout from personal corruption and statewide, one-party rule.
~Snip~
Californians voted for more water infrastructure. Newsom's party blocked them, and Newsom himself had four dams destroyed that had "once provided storage, electrical generation, recreation, and flood control."
Tell me again about Muh Democracy™.
All of which is my long-winded way of concluding that, as corrupt as the Newsoms appear to be, they are merely a symptom of the progressive disease killing our once-greatest state.
Commentary:
Through the years of Obama and Biden, Democrats have unleashed such a tsunami of government incompetence against the public that the stealing is hard to trace.
Remember that this investigation was begun during the Biden Administration.
(See:
Newsom Says Trump’s Justice Department Is Investigating Him and His Wife)
Unfortunately, the biased and complicit media has you convinced it is a fishing expedition. I trust that Trumps team does have some real evidence to build on.
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