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President Trump just posted that Gavin Newsom has dropped out of the 2028 race for president. Here’s what he wrote:   According to Grok, this isn’t true: “The claim inside is false . . .

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I normally leave the reporting of the exploits of Gavin Newsom, California’s ridiculous governor and obvious 2028 presidential candidate, to Ellie Holmes, as she literally wrote the book on Newsom. But given this strange pattern that Newsom seems to be trapping himself in, I’m just going to have to invade Ellie’s space this one time. Gavin Newsom is turning into a slapstick comedy act. It’s like the Marx Brothers are reborn, except there’s only one of them. The first time around, there was Groucho, Harpo, and Chico — not to mention Gummo and Zeppo, who didn’t last for the whole ride. This time, we’re stuck with Neppo, who’s carrying the Marx moniker more out of ideological than familial reasons. And he’s Neppo, because if Gavin Newsom were the self-made man he claims, given his weird string of self-disqualifying statements, he probably wouldn’t have made it in politics beyond a city council or county commission somewhere. (RELATED: The Spectator P.M. Ep. 193: Gavin Newsom Runs Into Trouble With Intelligence Comments) It helps to come from big money and big connections. The Newsom family has been a big deal in California politics for so long that William Newsom Sr., Gavin’s grandfather, was instrumental in backing former governor Pat Brown all the way back when the latter was elected district attorney in San Francisco in 1943. The elder Brown paid Newsom grandpere back as he moved up the political line; as governor, he had the state develop Squaw Valley as a resort town in time for the 1960 Winter Olympics at Lake Tahoe, and then gave Newsom and his business partner John Pelosi (the father of Paul Pelosi, whose wife Nancy ended up as the Speaker of the House) a concession to run Squaw Valley at the low, low price of… one dollar. That partnership soured, but not so much as to prevent Jerry Brown, who became governor in 1974 after Ronald Reagan’s eight years succeeding his father, from giving William Newsom Jr., a lawyer whose main client was the family of J. Paul Getty, a judgeship. Newsom served his old clients quite well; as an appellate judge in the 1980s, he helped Getty’s son, Gordon, secure a change in state trust law that allowed him to claim his share of a multi-heir trust. As Dan Walters of CalMatters noted back in 2019, the coziness was handed down another generation as well… After Newsom retired from the bench in 1995, he became administrator of Gordon Getty’s own trust, telling one interviewer, “I make my living working for Gordon Getty.” The trust provided seed money for the PlumpJack chain of restaurants and wine shops that Newson’s son, Gavin, and Gordon Getty’s son, Billy, developed, the first being in a Squaw Valley hotel. Gavin Newsom had been informally adopted by the Gettys after his parents divorced, returning a similar favor that the Newsom family had done for a young Gordon Getty many years earlier. Newsom’s PlumpJack business (named for an opera that Gordon Getty wrote) led to a career in San Francisco politics, a stint as mayor, the lieutenant governorship and now to the governorship, succeeding his father’s old friend. George Carlin once said, “It’s a big club… and you ain’t in it.” Be a member of that club, and you can get away with all kinds of things. Neppo is busy testing the limits of that, though. A week ago, there was his dustup with Ted Cruz, which, at the time, seemed an almost unfathomable own-goal. Cruz, on his podcast, had called Newsom “historically illiterate,” which to anyone with any degree of common sense would be defined as “don’t know much about history.” But his response was, well… Ted Cruz calling a dyslexic person illiterate is a new low, even for him. https://t.co/XC75ybiGKd — Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) February 16, 2026 Nobody knew Gavin Newsom was dyslexic before this. They did know he was historically illiterate and not a particularly bright guy. And it isn’t that being dyslexic is evidence that he’s stupid. There are quite a few smart people who are also dyslexic. It’s just that Newsom isn’t particularly one of them. So when he was duly ratioed for that stupid X post, somebody at Team Neppo decided to lean into the dyslexia. Boy, did they. The thing is, traditionally speaking, you don’t want to advertise your limitations if you’re trying to get elected president. You want to present yourself as a superhero as much as you possibly can — physically fit, athletic, a full head of hair, smart as a whip, youthful (if possible), and even tall. There’s a tradition of the taller candidate usually winning presidential races going back to the founding of the country. The point being that normal political rules would say that if you’re dyslexic, you just wouldn’t talk about it. But with victimization serving as the chief political virtue and cultural sacrament of today’s Democrat Party, those rules are gone. Gavin Newsom is too white and too male (as beta as he may be) to curry favor with the voters, which is why he still lags behind Kamala Harris in current 2028 Democrat primary polling. Can you imagine the humiliation of trailing behind Kamala Harris? So he needs a victimization hook. And Neppo doesn’t have much. He’s as privileged a white boy as it’s possible to be, and that’s no good in a party of very prideful broken toys. So you get this… Gavin Newsom on his lifelong struggle with dyslexia: “I do think it’s a superpower” pic.twitter.com/7Q0J8d0xks — State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) February 22, 2026 And then you get what happened in Atlanta… Gov. Newsom to a black crowd in GA: “I am like you. I’m a 960 SAT guy. I can’t read.” pic.twitter.com/4Gk0WKbIYz — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 23, 2026 This is in front of a crowd of mostly black people. He just told them he’s just like them because he had a terrible SAT score, and he can’t read a speech. On account of his dyslexic superpower, you see. And we’re getting all this because he “wrote a book…” My mom didn’t want my dyslexia to hold me back. I wrote a book about the impact she, and others, had on my life. It’s called Young Man in a Hurry and it’s out on February 24th. pic.twitter.com/nwEGH86U7a — Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) February 23, 2026 He didn’t write the book, of course. He had minions to write the book. By his own account, he doesn’t read or write all that well. Of course, his real superpower is that he’s a Newsom, and the money and connections coming from that have ensured that if he fails, he fails upward. How many of the people in that audience can identify with those problems? Neppo is a very unusual cat, to be sure. Now that he’s decided to inflict himself upon the American electorate, he’s doing it his way — which is that he’s going to humiliate himself again and again while making utterly indefensible statements like the ones he offered in Munich, or this… Donald Trump is a jackass. pic.twitter.com/y0dNhSzYJT — Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) February 23, 2026 I don’t know what else to say after that, other than to offer a quote from the real wit among the Marx Brothers. Groucho never met Gavin Newsom, but if he had, I’m pretty sure he’d dust this one off… “He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don’t let that fool you. He really is an idiot.” READ MORE from Scott McKay: Five Quick Things: The Death of Good Faith Randy Is Just Fine, Say Dogs and Most Americans The 2028 Democrat Contenders’ Pilgrimage to Europe

The left in America is celebrating the Supreme Court’s ruling in Learning Resources, Inc., Et Al. v. Trump, which held that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) does not authorize the president to impose tariffs, as the death knell of Trump’s tariff policy — a policy which is really just one quiver, albeit an important one, in Trump’s broader geoeconomic strategy. But the celebration will be short-lived. As Justice Kavanaugh pointed out in his dissent, and as Inu Manuk of the Council on Foreign Relations explains, there are at least four other federal laws that President Trump can use to impose tariffs. Trump has already used one of them in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision: Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. That act, Manuk notes, authorizes the president to impose tariffs or import quotas to respond to “large and serious” balance of payments deficits. The White House announced on Feb. 20 that pursuant to that act, the president “imposes, for a period of 150 days, a 10 percent ad valorem import duty on articles imported into the United States.” That tariff takes effect, according to the White House, on Feb. 24. The president’s executive order excepts certain items, such as critical minerals, energy products, some agricultural products, pharmaceuticals, some electronics, passenger vehicles, some aerospace products, and informational materials. In the end, the Supreme Court’s decision will have little long-term impact on Trump’s America First geoeconomic policies. “Tariffs,” according to the White House, “will continue to be a critical tool in President Trump’s toolbox for protecting American businesses and workers, reshoring domestic production, lowering costs, and raising wages.” Trump has since raised the tariff to 15 percent. Manuk notes that tariffs under Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act expire after 150 days unless Congress extends them. (RELATED: The Productivity Boom Economists Didn’t See Coming) Trump can also turn to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, which authorizes the president to impose tariffs for national security purposes. Trump has already used this act to impose some tariffs (on steel, trucks, buses, lumber, copper, cars, and wood products), which, Manuk explains, unlike Section 122 tariffs, have “no cap on the tariff rate” and can be imposed “following an investigation and recommendations by the secretary of commerce.” Congress can end such tariffs by formal resolution, but, as Manuk writes, this has rarely happened. Another statute that Trump has used against China, and can use against other countries, is Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act. To impose such tariffs, Manuk writes, Trump needs to conduct investigations and make findings related to unfair trade practices by other nations — not a heavy lift. The Biden administration continued the tariffs imposed on China by Trump under the authority of this law. (RELATED: While Canada Cozies Up to China, Mexico Imposes Harsh Tariffs Due to Chinese Auto Dumping) Finally, Trump can use Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, which authorizes the president to impose tariffs on countries that discriminate against U.S. trade after the International Trade Commission makes a “finding” to support that determination. Manuk notes that this statute has never been used by any president, but it remains on the books. In his dissent in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump,  which was joined by Justices Thomas and Alito, Justice Kavanaugh reviewed the lengthy history of Congressional authorizations for presidents to impose tariffs and embargoes on other countries, citing instances in 1810, 1890, 1922, and noting Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, Sections 122,  201, and 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. Indeed, Justice Kavanaugh noted the “nonsensical” result of the Court’s majority ruling that under the IEEPA, the president can impose a total embargo on imports from a foreign country, but cannot impose tariffs on that same country. And, as Justice Thomas noted in a separate dissent, the Court’s majority somehow excludes tariffs from the authority to “regulate importation.” In the end, the Supreme Court’s decision will have little long-term impact on Trump’s America First geoeconomic policies. The president, who is not bashful about using his Article II powers, will most likely continue to use other laws to impose tariffs for the purpose of protecting American manufacturing, American workers, and the nation’s economic and geopolitical security. Those tariffs, too, will be challenged in the courts, but in the meantime, geoeconomic policy will be made by the Executive — not the Judicial — branch of government. READ MORE from Frances P. Sempa: America Should Celebrate Nixon, Not the Washington Post Anchors Away: The Perils of Our Shipbuilding Imbalance The End of Atlanticism

Well of course. What else would you expect from a supposed “public official” who believes that public service in a democracy is all about threatening to arrest the opposition? Breitbart headlined this latest from former Obama United Nations Ambassador and Biden domestic policy staffer Susan Rice this way: “Susan Rice Threatens Trump Supporters: ‘Revenge Is Best Served Cold’.” The story reported this on Rice’s interview with former Democratic prosecutor Preet Bharara: “President Joe Biden’s domestic policy chief is promising revenge against the voters, business executives, and appointees who support President Donald Trump’s 2024 election mandate.” The story went on to report Rice as saying: A very prominent public figure, who has served at nearly the very highest levels, once told me … “Revenge is best served cold,” and the older I get, the more I see the wisdom of that. …..When it comes to the elites, you know, the corporate interests, the law firms, the universities, the media … it’s not going to end well for them, for those that decided that they would act in their perceived very narrow self-interest, which I would underscore, is very short-term self-interest, and, you know, take a knee to Trump. …They’re going to be held accountable by those who come in opposition to Trump and win at the ballot box. And I can tell you, Preet, as I talk to leaders in Washington, leaders in our party, leaders in the states, if these corporations think that the Democrats when they come back in power are going to, you know, play by the old rules and [say] “Never mind, we’ll forgive you for all the people you fired, all the policies and principles you violated, all the laws you’ve skirted.” I think they’ve got another thing coming … they’re going to be surprised. Democrats have had a bellyful, and we’re not going to play by, you know, the old set of rules. “We’re not going to be suckers … there will be an accountability agenda.” Amazing — and seriously revealing. What the former Obama/Biden aide has revealed is not the mindset of a serious presidential aide committed to democracy. What Susan Rice has revealed is that she is, in reality, a quite open fascist. America is not, she apparently needs to be reminded, Mussolini’s fascist Italy or Stalin’s Communist Soviet Union. Places where dissent is not only not tolerated but where those who do dissent from any given policy are both targeted and prosecuted because the dissenter has dissented from an “accountability agenda.” In other words, to borrow from Rice, she has taken a knee to the far Left agenda and its decidedly extremist agenda. And if anyone out there dissents and refuses to take a knee to the golden idols of the far Left, the moment they again have control of government, Rice and her fascist comrades will be coming for them in exactly the fashion of history’s fascists. What is particularly telling here is that Rice’s remarks have been greeted with silence from her fellow Democrats. Which sends a message that they apparently agree with this fascist approach to governing the world’s leading democracy. Worse still, the signals they send out are letting varying crazies think it is just nifty to try to target President Trump with violence. As Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said of Leftist rhetoric: “They are normalizing this violence. It’s got to stop.” And the president’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, said: “You have to ask yourself, whenever you just casually throw around terms like Nazi, like fascist, like Hitler and racist, what do you think the consequences of that ultimately will be?” Exactly. And these are the kind of people Americans are being asked in the next presidential election to trust with the Department of Justice? Really? Seriously? The answer — while America is still a democracy — is to stand up and fight back with the legitimate tools a democracy gives us all to use. Something former Ambassador Susan Rice clearly does not understand — or wants to understand. READ MORE from Jeffrey Lord: Trump’s Legacy: Global Peace GOP Congressman Bacon Opposes President’s Constitutional Pardon Power Three Cheers for Attorney General Pam Bondi Image licensed under Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal.