{"id":361761,"date":"2026-06-15T19:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/361761\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T19:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:45:08","slug":"california-gov-gavin-newsom-says-trumps-justice-department-is-investigating-him-and-his-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/361761\/","title":{"rendered":"California Gov. Gavin Newsom says Trump’s Justice Department is investigating him and his wife"},"content":{"rendered":"

SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) \u2014 California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat and longtime political rival of Republican President Donald Trump, said Monday the president had ordered the Justice Department to investigate him and his wife.<\/p>\n

The nature of the alleged investigation was not immediately clear. Newsom, said in a video posted on X that federal agents in recent days have knocked on the doors of his friends and former employees, and have asked for records \u201cnot because they found a crime, but because they\u2019re simply trying to find one.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDonald Trump isn\u2019t just coming after me because of my mean tweets,\u201d Newsom said, referencing his use of social media to mock Trump. \u201cHe\u2019s coming after me because I\u2019m considering running for president, because he hates that I\u2019ve consistently called him out over and over again for his lies and deceit.\u201d<\/p>\n

He called the president \u201ccorrupt\u201d and said the alleged investigation is another example of the president abusing the justice system to prosecute his political opponents, referencing indictments against former FBI Director James Comey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A person familiar with the matter confirmed that there are multiple federal investigations into people around Newsom, including one related to his wife\u2019s taxes. The probes began last year after whistleblower complaints in California government, and political leadership in Washington was not involved in the decision to open them, said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss ongoing investigations.<\/p>\n

They are the latest known Justice Department investigations related to one of Trump\u2019s foes, a trend that has sparked criticism that the administration is using the law enforcement agency as a political weapon. <\/p>\n

The Justice Department has also opened investigations into or brought prosecutions against former FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, former CIA director John Brennan and former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, among other perceived political enemies of the president. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) \u2014 California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat and longtime political rival of Republican President Donald…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1309,7,9,8,18,147054,1015,1308,47240,13,9111],"class_list":["post-361761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-a","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-general-news","tag-i","tag-legal-proceedings","tag-n","tag-p","tag-politics","tag-washington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}