Gavin Newsom: “Our focus and our priority needs to be on the safety of Californians, on protecting fire survivors when they’re impacted…”

I am directing the State Threat Assessment Center to actively monitor the situation in the event that foreign actors interpret the President’s remarks as an invitation to target California.

If the feds were serious about this, they would have done this long ago — not in the middle of people voting, which inherently and needlessly sows distrust and doubt in our democracy.

Gavin Newsom, the state’s governor, called the remarks “dangerous – if not treasonous – putting a target on two of our biggest cities and one of America’s largest naval hubs.”

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press account on social media called the Trump administration’s actions 'completely unacceptable and inappropriate.