SMACKDOWN! Gavin Newsom brilliantly exposes the Trump admin for blaming California for fraud that the White House controls!

The California Governor Gavin Newsom's Press Office was not having it.

After the New York Post splashed a headline screaming about "$8.6 billion in new fraud uncovered in California," California officials fired back with a brutal reality check: the fraud was in federal programs run by the Trump administration - not California.

"OMG," the Newsom team posted on X. "The Trump Administration found MAJOR FRAUD in programs THEY control. The state has no role running / administering these programs. Were they hiding this???"

That's the part the Post left out.

The loans in question - PPP and EIDL COVID relief - were administered by the Small Business Administration, not the state of California. Yet the Post framed it as a failure of California governance, echoing Trump-world talking points while ignoring who actually held the keys.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta had already dismissed claims of rampant state-level fraud as "baseless." And the record backs him up. According to the Newsom administration, California has made nearly 1,000 arrests and stopped more than $125 billion in fraud - a nationwide leading effort under Gavin Newsom.

Meanwhile, the SBA - now under Trump - suddenly "discovers" billions in fraud years after the money went out the door, then tries to pin the blame on blue states. Convenient.

SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler told the Post this was about cracking down on fraud supposedly enabled by Democratic states. But here's the inconvenient truth: California doesn't administer PPP or EIDL loans. Washington does.

If there was fraud on an "industrial scale," it happened on the Trump administration's watch through federal systems they controlled, audited, and approved.

So why the blame game?

Because admitting federal failure doesn't fit the narrative. It's easier to point fingers at California than to explain how billions slipped through Trump-era oversight - or why it took so long to notice.

California didn't hide fraud. California fought it.

The real scandal isn't where the fraud happened - it's who's pretending they weren't responsible.

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