Newsom: "Do we still have a government that belongs to the people?"
July 4, 2026
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as posted by the channelCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) called President Trump "corrupt and unstable" in remarks marking the country's 250th anniversary, accusing him of threatening the nation's founding ideals.
"Two hundred and fifty years ago, 56 men in Philadelphia signed their names to one of the most radical sentences ever written: that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed," he said.
"That clause was treason. It was a line that terrified every monarchy in Europe. It was a line that made America possible. And today, on this Independence Day, the radical idea behind that clause, it's again under threat from one man who exhibits the very behaviors our Founding Fathers fought against. A corrupt and unstable president is forcing us to ask a once-unimaginable question: Do we still have a government that belongs to the people?"
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