LOS ANGELES, June 15 (Reuters) – California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday accused President Donald Trump of directing the Justice Department to investigate him and his wife.
“Donald Trump isn’t just coming after me because of my mean Tweets,” Newsom said in a video statement posted to X. “He’s coming after me because I am considering running for President.”
The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Newsom said federal agents had in recent days been knocking on the door of members of his family, friends and former employees demanding documents and records.
“Not because they found a crime. Because they are simply trying to find one,” he said.
Newsom and Trump have long been critical of each other, clashing on major issues including climate change, pipelines and the Republican president’s deployment of National Guard troops to the state last summer.
(Reporting by Costas Pitas and Ryan Patrick Jones; editing by Michelle Nichols)
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