The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
"Gavin Newsom committed grave evil by sitting approvingly by for his mother’s killing. When he hits the campaign trail, Americans should ask themselves if they really want a man like this in the White House."
"In an interview with the Washington Post published Wednesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom admitted that he sat approvingly by his mother’s bedside as she was euthanized in an act that, at the time, legally amounted to homicide. Assisted suicide was legalized in California in 2015; prior to that time, any deliberate killing of a person — even with that individual’s consent — would be considered a homicide.
"Newsom has previously admitted involvement in his mother’s death by euthanasia, and it is something that I covered in my book on Newsom’s life,
"But his new interview gives additional details that reveal the extent of his complicity in the killing of his mother.
"As we previously knew, Newsom’s 55-year-old mother, Tessa, informed him in a voicemail that she planned to die by euthanasia and asked him to be present for her death. Newsom agreed. The governor the New Yorker that he then spent time with his mother in the days leading up to her planned death, including when he made her dinner the night before her killing. This means Newsom knew that Tessa was going to be illegally killed and he did not stop or dissuade her.
"Newsom told the Washington Post that he, alongside his sister, prepared his mother for her killing by giving Tessa a dose of painkillers 45 minutes before the doctor was to arrive for his deadly deed so as to, in the Post’s words, “keep her comfortable.”
"Let’s pause there for a moment. Newsom gave his mother painkillers, which have the effect of relaxing a person, leaving her softened and ready to be injected with a lethal dose of drugs. This has the definite appearance of a person who is aiding the commission of illegal euthanasia. It also raises the question of whether Newsom’s mother was cognitively capable of agreeing to her killing when it happened (putting aside the fact that her consent has no impact on the legality of her killing). Those painkillers that Newsom gave Tessa before the doctor arrived could very well have played a part in her death.
"Newsom claimed to the Washington Post that Tessa was able to lucidly answer the doctor’s questions when he arrived to kill her. Of course, however, we will never know if she was really cognitively unaffected by the painkillers." . . .
