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Susan Crabtree

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208 total appearances

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Morning Wire
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

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.

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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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

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

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

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.

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.

Morning Wire
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

Morning Wire
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

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.