Newsom’s press office shared the photo on X after Shirley posted a 40-minute video alleging $170 million in suspected fraud within California’s hospice and day care systems.
Joe Rogan Hammers Gavin Newsom for Mocking Citizen Journalist Nick Shirley: 'He's Doing Your Job, Uncovering Fraud'
"Podcast king and comedian Joe Rogan blasted California’s Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom for his attacks on citizen journalist Nick Shirley after he took his cameras to California to expose the massive fraud of public funds in the Golden State.
"Shirley has made a name for himself by taking his camera to various corruption hotspots across the U.S.A. and exposing waste and criminal abuse of our federal and state welfare funding programs. But Gov. Newsom is not at all happy that Shirley appeared in California to uncover the criminal activity in California.
Consequently, Newsom was seen mocking Shirley on social media. Rogan, though, found the mocking to be inappropriate and insisted that a state governor should be happy that fraud and criminality is uncovered in his state so that he can prosecute it and clean it up." . . .
Nick Shirley has viral retort for Gavin Newsom's office after it mocks his investigations
. . . "Newsom's office mocked Shirley by posting a photo of a man carrying several cameras at a daycare and asking a teacher, "Hey, can I see your kids?"
"Shirley did not hold back in his response.
" 'You do realize I’m trying to help America eliminate fraud and waste right?" he said in a reply to the post Monday night. "No need to try and make me look like the bad guy for exposing fraud. People are over it. Start working for the people and not against them." . . .
Newsom: California's a low-tax paradise - Mike McDaniel "Did you know that California is a virtually tax-free paradise, and Texas and Florida are the two most highly taxed states in America? U-Haul certainly doesn’t, but it must be true because Gavin Newsom said it, and he wouldn’t lie about a thing like that—would he? After all, who you gonna believe? Newsom or your own lyin’ eyes and ears, innumerable U-Haul trucks and trailers rolling out of California and the empty bank accounts of Californians?
Wait a minute! How can he say something so obviously, ridiculously false? He’s Gavin Newsom and a Democrat. They make their own reality and demand everyone else live in it. The Democrat media propaganda arm fully supports whatever narrative Democrats invent and trumpets it until its replaced by a new, entirely fanciful, narrative.'
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