It was a surprise to many that Gov. Gavin Newsom didn’t show up at a photo op event commemorating the start of federal debris removal in the wake of the California wildfires. Maybe it shouldn’t have been, once news of the photo op — and photos of what was being done with the American flag — got out.
In a series of videos and photos, Joel Pollak, senior editor at large for Breitbart and a resident of Southern California, showed both the American flag and Californian flag flying from, as he noted, curiously clean construction equipment on freshly swept roadways.
Pollak said, he’d received word that Newsom was scheduled to be at the event in Pacific Palisades, his neighborhood, “to take credit for a federal fire relief operation that belongs to President Trump,” Breitbart News said in a post.
Joel Pollak, Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News, reported he had received intel that Gavin Newsom was staging a photo-op in his neighborhood in the Pacific Palisades to take credit for a federal fire relief operation that belongs to President Trump. pic.twitter.com/4wOq3EKqJC
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) February 11, 2025
Pollak went on to note that “residents still have questions about the state’s poor preparation” to fight the wildfires and why Newsom would be taking credit for what the federal government was doing.
However, as you may notice, both Old Glory and the California standard are hanging from the arms of the backhoes — which, as Pollak noted in another post, were spotless. […]
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