Gavin Newsom says he’s being investigated by Department of Justice

Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Monday that the US Department of Justice is investigating him and his family in an explosive social media post.

Newsom said that federal investigators are looking into the activities of the governor, his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, and family members as an act of political retaliation as the leader of California weighs a run for president after terming out of office at the beginning of next year.

“In recent days, federal agents have knocked on the doors of family, friends, and former employees, not because they found a crime, because they’re simply trying to find one,” Newsom said in a video posted to X.

“They’re demanding records, they’re abusing the grand jury process, digging through years and years of random documents. Donald Trump isn’t just coming after me because of my mean tweets, he’s coming after me because I’m considering running for president, because he hates that I’ve consistently called him out over and over again for his lies and deceit.”

Newsom accused President Trump of directing the DoJ to investigate him and his family in an act of alleged political retaliation.

Newsom added, “Donald Trump is simply the most corrupt president in American history.”

Officials for the White House declined The Post’s request for comment, deferring to officials at the Department of Justice.

Newsom also accused Trump of using the federal government to reward allies and target political foes.
“He’s turned the levers of government into his own personal power ministries to reward cronies and to try to jail his opponents,” Newsom said.

The California Democrat said Trump’s “personal attorney now runs the Department of Justice,” which he claimed has “repeatedly gone after his political enemies.”

“Ask Jerome Powell, sent them after James Comey, Tisch James Adam Schiff, he sent them after Tim Walz and a woman that a jury found Donald Trump had sexually abused,” Newsom said.

“One by one, anyone who has challenged Donald Trump has ended up on his hit list. And today I proudly join that list,” he added.

Newsom said Trump had targeted him after “calling for my arrest last year.”

“Donald Trump directed his Department of Justice to investigate me, and just in the last week I’ve learned that his campaign has reached my own home to get me,” Newsom said.

The governor said Trump was also targeting Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and gender equity advocate who serves as California’s first partner.

“He’s coming after my wife, Jen, a public servant, a woman who’s dedicated her life to supporting women and girls, someone who has done nothing wrong other than having the temerity to advocate for what she believes in,” Newsom said.

“If they can’t intimidate me, they’ll go after the mother of our children. Donald Trump picked the wrong target. We have nothing to hide,” he added.

Newsom said Trump’s “political operatives can take every record and read every page,” but said they “will be looking in the wrong place.”

“Because if they really want to find corruption, look no further than 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.,” Newsom said.

Newsom then accused Trump of using the presidency for personal financial gain.

“Donald Trump is selling the presidency. He’s running the largest cash heist in American political history, trading foreign tariff relief for approval of his golf courses, day trading behind the Resolute Desk, reaping hundreds of millions of dollars in personal profit,” Newsom said.

“And he’s doing it openly, he’s doing it on camera. He did it last night on the White House lawn. He’s doing it through crypto currencies, he’s doing it through the receipt of a $400 million private jet from a foreign government that he plans to keep when he leaves office through his son’s ventures in countries where his own administration is simultaneously making policy. His personal fortune has skyrocketed by $4 billion since making his return to office,” Newsom said.

“This is the behavior of a regime, not a republic,” he added.

Newsom, who is widely seen as a potential 2028 White House contender, has increasingly positioned himself as one of Trump’s most aggressive Democratic foils, frequently using social media and national television appearances to attack the president and his administration.

The governor is termed out of office in January and has not formally announced a presidential campaign.

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