BREAKING NEWS Trump threatens to arrest Gavin Newsom and calls LA rioters 'insurrectionists'
President Donald Trump said he would support arresting California Gov. Gavin Newsom and called the rioters in Los Angeles 'insurrectionists.'
'I would do it,' the president said when asked about Newsom daring his administration to arrest him.
'I like Gavin Newsom, he's a nice guy but he's grossly incompetent, everybody knows it,' the president added.
Trump had even harsher words for the demonstrators.
'The people that are causing problems are professional agitators and insurrectionists,' he told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House. 'They're bad people. They should be in jail.'
Riots broke out in the mostly Latino section of Los Angeles after a series of arrests by border partrol agents.
Trump nationalized California's National Guard to respond to the situation.
Newsom responded the city would sue.
'This is exactly what Donald Trump wanted,' Newsom said on social media. 'He flamed the fires and illegally acted to federalize the National Guard.'
'We're suing him.'
Earlier the California governor, a Democrat, challenged Tom Homan to put him in jail as he blamed the Trump administration for inciting the riots that have brought Los Angeles to its knees.
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