Gov. Newsom joins Trump’s Truth Social to call out ‘Republican lies’ 

SACRAMENTO — California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced he has joined former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social with the aim of “calling out Republican lies.”

Newsom posted about joining the Republican-focused social media on his Twitter account, sharing a video he said he’d posted to Truth Social a day earlier asking questions about the high homicide rate in many red states.

“Going to be on there calling out Republican lies. This could get…interesting,” the text from Newsom’s post read.  

“I know we’re all on this platform in search for the ‘truth,’ but the truth is, I’ve not been able to find a simple explanation for the fact that we have a red state murder problem,” the governor said in the video before going on to detail that eight of the ten states in the U.S. with the highest murder rates are red states.

“What are the laws and policies in those states that are leading to such carnage?” Newsom asked to end the clip.

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