00:00I looked at it, I saw it, and I just looked at the first part.
00:18It was about voter fraud in someplace, Georgia.
00:21There was a lot of voter fraud, 2020 voter fraud.
00:24Gavin Newsom just took Donald Trump's latest controversy and turned it into a full-blown political troll storm.
00:33It all started after President Trump blamed a White House staffer for posting a deeply offensive and racist video on his Truth Social account,
00:43a video that depicted former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes dancing in a jungle,
00:52while Trump was portrayed as a lion.
00:55The video sparked immediate outrage across the country, and instead of apologizing, the White House tried to explain it away.
01:04At first, Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt dismissed the backlash as fake outrage,
01:11calling the Post nothing more than an internet meme.
01:14But when even some Republicans condemned the video and urged it to be taken down, the story shifted.
01:21Suddenly, the White House claimed a staffer had posted the video by mistake.
01:27That excuse did not sit well with California Governor Gavin Newsom.
01:33On Friday, Newsom's press office responded with a brutal all-caps post on X.
01:39Wow, White House says Trump doesn't write his own tweets?
01:43Autopen.
01:44Attached was an image mocking Trump's Truth Social post, as if it were signed by an autopen,
01:51a sharp jab at Trump's own repeated attacks on President Joe Biden.
01:56Trump has long claimed Biden relied on an autopen due to age and alleged cognitive decline,
02:03and even reportedly replaced Biden's portrait with a black-and-white photo of an autopen in the White House gallery.
02:10Newsom's message was clear.
02:13If Trump says he didn't post it, who did?
02:16But Newsom's office didn't stop there.
02:20Earlier, the governor himself condemned the video as disgusting behavior by the president
02:25and called on Republicans to publicly speak out.
02:28Then, when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noam accused Newsom of releasing tens of thousands
02:35of criminal migrants without notifying ICE, the California governor's office fired back.
02:42They accused the White House of working overtime to distract from Trump's racist post
02:47and reiterated that California cooperates with ICE when removing violent criminals from state prisons.
02:54And then came the most explosive moment.
02:58Newsom's press office shared an image showing Donald Trump and the late Jeffrey Epstein
03:03photoshopped onto pigs standing in a pen, captioned simply,
03:08Oink, oink.
03:09The post instantly went viral.
03:12The symbolism was impossible to miss, and it sent Trump supporters and critics alike into a frenzy online.
03:19The clash is just the latest escalation in a growing feud between Trump and Newsom,
03:25who have emerged as political arch-enemies since Trump returned to office.
03:30Trump has repeatedly branded Newsom incompetent,
03:33while Newsom has called Trump a deranged, habitual liar whose relationship with reality ended years ago.
03:40Meanwhile, Trump continues to deny responsibility.
03:44Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump insisted he's the least racist president
03:50and claimed he only watched the first part of the video, which he said focused on voter fraud.
03:56He admitted the post stayed up for about 12 hours before being deleted,
04:00saying staff removed it after watching the entire clip.
04:04The media post that you took down earlier today, the White House says that a staffer sent it.
04:12Who sent it, and are you going to fire that?
04:14I looked at it.
04:16I saw it, and I just looked at the first part.
04:18It was about voter fraud in someplace, Georgia.
04:22There was a lot of voter fraud, 2020 voter fraud, that I didn't see the whole thing.
04:26I guess during the end of it, there was some kind of a, and people don't like.
04:33I wouldn't like it either, but I didn't see it.
04:35I just, I looked at the first part, and it was really about voter fraud and the machines,
04:41how crooked it is, how disgusting it is.
04:44Then I gave it to the people.
04:46Generally, they'd look at the whole thing, but I guess somebody didn't.
04:49Then they posted, and we took it down, and we did it, yeah.
04:53But that was a voter fraud that nobody talks about.
04:56They don't like to talk about that post.
05:00We took it down as soon as we found out about it.
05:02Mr. President, a number of Republicans are calling on you to apologize for that post.
05:06Is that something you're going to do?
05:08No, I didn't make a mistake.
05:09I mean, I look at a lot of thousands of things, and I looked at the beginning of it.
05:16It was fine.
05:17They had that one post, and I guess it was a takeoff.
05:20By the way, a lot of people covered, if you look at where it came from, a lot of, I guess
05:25it was a takeoff on the Lion King, and certainly it was a very strong post in terms of voter
05:33fraud.
05:33Nobody knew that that was at the end.
05:35If they would have looked, they would have seen it, and probably they would have had the
05:38sense to take it down.
05:39But that was a takeoff on the Lion King, and a lot of people were covered in different positions.
05:45When asked if he would apologize, he refused.
05:50So now, the controversy has shifted beyond the video itself.
05:55If the president says he doesn't control his own social media posts, if racist content can
06:02sit online for half a day, and if blame always lands on unnamed staffers, then who's really
06:08accountable?
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