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Newsom ‘Threatening’ Criminal Tax Evasion, Treasury Secretary Warns

Governor Gavin Newsom is “threatening to commit criminal tax evasion,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday, amid an escalating war of words between California and the Trump administration.

The warning from Bessent came in response to Newsom recently suggesting that his state “cut” off the more than $80 billion “more in taxes than we get back” in response to a CNN report with sources claiming President Donald Trump was preparing a broad cancellation of federal funding for California.

“Governor [Gavin Newsom] is threatening to commit criminal tax evasion. His plan: defraud the American taxpayer and leave California residents on the hook for unpaid federal taxes,” Bessent said in a thread posted on X.

“I am certain most California businesses know that failing to pay taxes owed to the Treasury constitutes tax evasion and have no intention of following the dangerous path Governor [Gavin Newsom] is threatening,” Bessent added. “I would warn state officials, including payroll managers, that federal law attaches personal liability to an ‘attempt to evade or defeat tax.'”

Newsom’s “comments are extremely reckless. Instead of committing criminal tax evasion, Governor Newsom should consider a tax plan for California that follows the Trump Tax Cuts model and reduces the onerous state tax burden to allow families to keep more of their hard-earned money,” Bessent concluded.

Bessent posted the thread as Newsom, a Democrat widely considered a potential candidate for the presidency, clashed with President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over troop deployments to California amid violent anti-ICE protests that have taken place in and around Los Angeles over the weekend.

After Hegseth said active-duty Marines at Camp Pendleton would be mobilized to assist National Guardsmen if the chaos persists, Newsom accused the Defense Secretary of exhibiting “deranged behavior” for “threatening to deploy active-duty Marines on American soil against its own citizens.”

In response, Hegseth said on X, “Deranged = allowing your city to burn & law enforcement to be attacked. There is plenty of room for peaceful protest, but ZERO tolerance for attacking federal agents who are doing their job. The National Guard, and Marines if need be, stand with ICE.”
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ArtieKat · M
But it's acceptable - in your opinion - for your president to break umpteen laws and to release the Capitol insurrectionists? Can you explain that to me please?
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sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@ArtieKat So biden has 1,100 warrents for arrest filed against him for all the folks biden pardoned, eh?
@ArtieKat Look at all the pardons Biden issued. No different. What laws broken in doing so? Trump actually read and signed the pardons issued where a staffer used autopen for Bidens. So .. stfu about it unless you condemn that too.
ArtieKat · M
@sunsporter1649 "Whataboutism"? This isn't a party political issue to me. Can't you just answer the question?
ArtieKat · M
@BrandNewMan "Whataboutism"? This isn't a party political issue to me. Can't you just answer the question?
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ArtieKat · M
@BrandNewMan Why am I not surprised that all you have to resort to is swearing? I repeat
This isn't a party political issue to me
. It's about the rule of law and an attack on the seat of government in the USA.
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samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@ArtieKat how so?
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@ArtieKat the fundamental problem with TACO Don in this situation, is that he had no constitutional right to nationalize the national guard nor call up the Marines.
@samueltyler2 Thats a lie. The president can activate the national guard under the law. CBS says so .. not exactly a conservative media outlet. Johnson did the same thing in 1965 in AL. You really ought to read more before opening
your trap.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-title-10-national-guard-deployment-los-angeles-authority-meaining/

Do you think you can just blurt out any lie you want and no one will know better? If you can't do better than this, you really shouldn't be posting.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@BrandNewMan only under certain circumstances, one of the only circumstance I could find was when Eisenhower went around the governor of Arkansas when the governor refused to integrate the schools. It cvan also potentially happy if a real hot war breaks out. Otherwise no:

https://time.com/7292433/trump-national-guard-la-protests/

read about the Posse Comitatus Act

If you don't know history then STFU!
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