Newsom launches Hail Mary bid to crush bombshell DOJ probe into him and his spouse

California Gov. Gavin Newsom despatched a letter to the Division of Justice looking for any and all communications between high officers that use the phrases “Gavin Newsom,” “Jennifer Siebel Newsom,” or “Newsom.”

“My workplace is demanding the Trump Administration launch any and all information on the Trump DOJ’s politically motivated, baseless fishing expedition.

“The American folks should know who ordered this abuse of energy and the way far it goes,” Newsom wrote on X Monday, sharing the letter he despatched to the Trump administration making a Freedom of Info Act request.

A FOIA request is a written demand made underneath the Freedom of Info Act, a federal legislation that provides any particular person the appropriate to entry information from government department businesses of the U.S. authorities.

The letter was despatched from Newsom’s gubernatorial workplace and demanded all communications mentioning him or his spouse between January 2025 and the current.

“I request all paperwork and information together with however not restricted to memoranda, emails, textual content messages, and Sign messages, from, to, or copying (“cc’ing”) any member of the chief management of the U.S. Division of Justice,” the letter reads.

Newsom’s staff has given the DOJ a deadline of 20 days to supply all requested paperwork by July 6, 2026, as required by federal legislation.

“If this request is denied in entire or half, please justify all such denials by reference to particular exemptions, and supply an evidence of why the Division ‘moderately foresees that disclosure would hurt an curiosity’ protected by that exemption or why ‘disclosure is prohibited by legislation,’” the letter stated.

The request seeks information involving high division officers, together with, however not restricted to, former Legal professional Common Pam Bondi, former Appearing Deputy Legal professional Common Emil Bove and former Deputy Legal professional Common and Appearing Legal professional Common Todd Blanche.

Trump fired Bondi as lawyer common in April 2026 and subsequently nominated his former private protection lawyer, Todd Blanche, to completely fill the position.

Bondi’s dismissal adopted frustrations over the dealing with of the Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata and a perceived failure to prosecute political adversaries.

The governor made public Monday that he and his spouse, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, are the themes of an ongoing U.S. Division of Justice investigation.

The inquiry reportedly entails whistleblower allegations associated to Siebel Newsom’s taxes, in addition to a separate corruption probe linked to Newsom’s former chief of employees, Dana Williamson.

The letter comes simply hours after Newsom launched a scathing video revealing the alleged investigation. The DOJ has not publicly commented on or confirmed the probe, and President Trump has not addressed Newsom’s accusations.

“In current days, federal brokers have knocked on the doorways of household, buddies, and former workers, not as a result of they discovered against the law, as a result of they’re merely looking for one,” Newsom stated in a video posted to X.

“Donald Trump isn’t simply coming after me due to my imply tweets, he’s coming after me as a result of I’m contemplating operating for president, as a result of he hates that I’ve persistently referred to as him out time and again for his lies and deceit,” he added.

Siebel Newsom’s nonprofit work seems to be a key a part of the reported probe.

The Submit beforehand revealed that the governor directed greater than $4.4 million from particular pursuits and rich people to the California Companions Mission, one in every of Siebel Newsom’s signature initiatives.

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