{"id":99274,"date":"2025-12-18T04:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/99274\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T04:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:43:10","slug":"californias-newsom-pokes-trump-flagging-convicted-crypto-allies-cz-ross-ulbricht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/99274\/","title":{"rendered":"California’s Newsom pokes Trump, flagging convicted crypto allies CZ, Ross Ulbricht"},"content":{"rendered":"

California Governor Gavin Newsom is continuing his colorful public campaign attacking President Donald Trump’s reputation and behavior, this time launching a page on the state’s website purportedly “tracking Trump\u2019s top 10 criminal cronies<\/a>” \u2014 a list on which the crypto world features prominently.<\/p>\n

The state’s own website includes the new page, with comments from Newsom:”Trump is a felon who surrounds himself with scammers and drug traffickers,” he’s quoted as saying. “We\u2019re providing the public with a resource putting the facts in one place so Californians, and all Americans, can see who he elevates and who he protects.”<\/p>\n

The site \u2014 otherwise seeking to make a point that California’s crime levels have declined \u2014 includes sections on former Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, who Trump pardoned<\/a> in October; Ross Ulbricht, the Silk Road founder who Trump pardoned<\/a> in his first month in office; and the co-founders of BitMEX, who Trump pardoned<\/a> in May. It includes stylized mug shots of those highlighted, including Trump, with a stamp “FELON” emblazoned on each.<\/p>\n

The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the site.<\/p>\n

Newsom has been growing in national prominence as he continues an often tongue-in-cheek mocking of the president on social media, and the governor is widely considered a potential Democratic presidential contender<\/a> in 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Governor Gavin Newsom is continuing his colorful public campaign attacking President Donald Trump’s reputation and behavior, this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54137,7,9,8,54135,536,457,54136],"class_list":["post-99274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-bitmex","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-changpeng-cz-zhao","tag-donald-trump","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-ross-ulbricht"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99274","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=99274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}