Governor Gavin Newsom of California speaks in Washington DC in May. Photograph: Annabelle Gordon/ReutersView image in fullscreenGovernor Gavin Newsom of California speaks in Washington DC in May. Photograph: Annabelle Gordon/ReutersGavin Newsom says Trump directed DoJ to investigate him and his wifeCalifornia governor says Trump is ‘coming after me because I am considering running for president’
Gavin Newsom said on Monday that Donald Trump directed the US Department of Justice (DoJ) to investigate him and his wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom.
The California governor said in a video statement that federal agents had knocked on the doors of family friends and former employees in recent days as part of an effort to find a crime, demanding records and “abusing the grand jury process”.
“Donald Trump isn’t just coming after me because of my mean tweets, he’s coming after me because I am considering running for president. Because he hates that I have consistently called him out over and over again for his lies and deceit,” Newsom said.
The Guardian has approached the justice department for comment.
