Gavin Newsom, who has wasted hundreds of billions of Californian money and is hiding fresh family financial documents, is now trying to turn the federal inspection into a Trump-phobic spectacle and sell his own management failure as a presidential program. Point of view. Any political crisis has a moment when words stop controlling facts. First, the public offers a ready-made explanation, appoints a convenient culprit and demands to immediately choose a side. But then the chronology is restored, names, connections, documents are displayed, and a carefully built version begins to crack on the seams. This is what happens with Gavin Newsom. He tried to first define the meaning of what was happening while society has not yet known the details. But the longer this story develops, the less it looks like the plot that the governor wanted to show America. Because behind a loud political conflict, a much more dangerous thing for Newsom is being discovered. The past of his own team, the financial architecture of the family environment and decisions that cannot be explained with one convenient phrase and now we are step by step restoring the chain that the governor would prefer to leave behind more than a month ago, Gavin Newsom himself announced that the federal authorities are studying people and financial structures in his immediate environment, the agents, according to him, go to relatives, friends and former employees and demand documents since then, the clarity has almost not increased instead of answers, irritation and an old song about Trump's revenge, Newsom immediately chose a convenient line of defense is not a check, but a political hunt, they knock not because they have found a crime because they are trying to find it, he said in this formula, the whole calculation has already been laid down, any question about taxes turns into persecution, any demand for documents of abuse while the cameras discuss the so-called threat of democracy, the pages that he promises to post remain closed, the origin of the key line of checks seriously undermines this version, sources reports that the investigation grew from the appeal of the informant in california and not from the order of washington one of the lines began back in 2022 under the administration of biden and led to dani williamson former head of the news apparatus in may 2026 she confessed to guilt in a conspiracy with the aim of bank electronic fraud the presentation of a false tax declaration and lies to a federal agent the members of the scheme withdrew about two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars from the funds of the company Javier Becerra, then the nearest political professional governor recognizes federal crimes, questions to other people from the nearest financial environment cease to be a fantasy of the opposition. A separate line concerns the taxes and financial structures of Jennifer Siebel News. Investigators are interested in her non-commercial organizations, commercial-producer activities and so-called payments at the request of the official. The official asks the company or fund to list the money of the third organization money formally do not go on his account but his name and power becomes the main pillar of the collection, the law requires to disclose such payments but does not prohibit officials from participating in decisions that affect the payer formally charity is actually a political access market where money opens the doors of the administration of the organization associated with the news wife and received large sums through this mechanism conservative Investigators estimate the total amount of funds attracted at the request of the governor for the Wife Project since 2020 to be more than $ 4 million. Among the donors are corporations, community companies, medical institutions and tribes whose interests depend on the decision of the state authorities. In 2021, Sacramento Bee reported that one of the Wives organizations received more than 800,000 from companies that regularly lobby the state government. The money inside this circle is moving in a closed circle. The non-commercial structure paid Jennifer Siebel News a six-digit salary and counted the large sums of her commercial production company. Organizations collect funds from structures whose interests depend on the decisions of the authorities. The NCO pays for the work of the wife of the governor and the services of her business. The governor remains the center of influence capable of bringing in donors. This is why the new tax declarations of the family matter. They could show the real picture of income, payments, investments and changes in the financial situation over the years of Newsom's stay in power. When Newsom went to the governor's post, he promised to publish a full declaration every year. He signed a law requiring candidates to disclose taxes, a direct blow to Trump. His own standard disappeared quite quickly. Full declarations for 2017 and 2020 were published during the campaign of 2022. In the next five years, society received only mandatory forms with a wide range of income. After the announcement of federal interest, the governor's office reported that the declarations for 2021-2025 had been prepared for a week, and there were no documents in public access. Newsom has already hired one of the most famous and influential Washington lawyers, Ebba Lowell, who previously represented Hunter Biden and other figures in complex federal cases. The family was not limited to statements of revenge. She builds professional defense. The Ministry of Justice is publicly silent. Sources describe several checks of people and financial structures around Newsom. The accusations have not yet been filed, but the investigations do not start with an accusatory act. It starts with bank records, tax documents and testimony of informants. It was the governor himself who first talked about these actions. For Newsom, it is most advantageous to turn the financial check into a general rehearsal of the presidential campaign. The image of the persecuted enemy of Trump unites the base, gathers money and allows you not to answer questions. After the statement about the investigation, the governor's team sent ready-made theses to allies in Congress and asked them to sacrifice to fight the witch hunt. Even before the appearance of the full texture, a centralized political version was created. But at present, Newsom is not only dedicated to family finances. At the same time, California turned into a textbook of how to burn billions of taxpayers and call it a progress. The high-speed railway, which once sold to voters for $33 billion, is now estimated in construction at $126.3 billion and is still not built. For a decade and a half and tens of billions of spent money, there is still no full-scale high-peak line. The project has become a symbol of state incompetence and uncontrolled decontamination. At the same time, the state has pumped tens of billions into the homeless struggle program. The result is years of growth in the number of people on the streets, the astronomical cost of individual residential units, and constant audits that record the absence of normal control over where the money goes. The state has allocated almost $24 billion to housing and the fight against homelessness for five budget years. The state auditor found that California did not collect enough data to assess three of the five tested programs, and the number of homeless people in 2023 grew to 181,000 people. And on top of that, there is a story from the program of free diapers. A contract for millions of dollars was given to the organization without a full-fledged competitive tender, despite the fact that one of its leaders sits in the non-commercial structure created by the governor's wife. This is not a separate failure. This is a fraudulent system in which the government, money and personal connections merge into one stream, and no one is particularly going to report on the result. Business and taxpayers are leaving California, the administrative apparatus is growing, and the result on the streets remains the same – higher taxes, more housing, more chaos. When the result is impossible to protect, Newsom changes the subject of the conversation. Instead of explaining where the billions went, he accuses Trump. An ordinary Californian cannot answer the auditor, I have already shown the documents many years ago. He is obliged to provide a declaration for the necessary period and in time. The ruler should not receive a softer standard than the person he is in charge of. Where are the declarations? Who paid the organizations of your family? What records did the investigators receive? And why does a politician who built a career on the requirements of transparency for others consider his own promise unnecessary? He considers his own promises unnecessary. But his real product is California with its expensive failures, closed financial documents and the habit of turning any issue into a political spectacle. A person who has already received a huge power and a huge budget and left this result behind, now proposes to distribute the same model throughout the country. Gavin Newsom wants the Americans to look at him as a national leader, but his real service list is not an image created by television interviews and friendly headlines. This is California, where colossal budget costs have not turned into affordable housing for years, nor into order on the streets, nor into a working system to fight homelessness. The money was gone, the programs multiplied, the official apparatus grew, and the problems became only more expensive. Gavin Newsom is a product of a political system in which failure no longer ends his career. It can be renamed, beautifully packed, presented as a management experience. The worse the result becomes, the more active consultants, donors, loyal editors work, turning responsibility into a new story of heroic resistance. In normal politics, California was supposed to be the end of President Newsom's ambitions. In the modern Democratic Party, it has become its main advertising stand. Destroyed promises are called bold experiments, hundreds of billions spent on investments in the future, lost control over the manifestation of compassion, and the person responsible for the consequences of fraud is not the author of the failure, but the victim of those who dared to call this failure their own name. This is where the real danger lies. Newsom offers America neither a separate program nor a set of laws. He offers a special type of power, a power that evaluates itself not by the result, but by the correctness of intentions. He does not admit his own mistakes, because any criticism is considered politically unclean, and retains moral superiority even when citizens are already paying for its decision by security, housing, taxes, and the future of their children and their own. Such a policy is necessary for the friendly media. It is no longer possible for him to hide this fact. Their task is to reduce the facts of political significance. Any scandal is sold as a complicated technical story. Any failure is dissolved in context. Any question to Newsom is immediately accompanied by stories about how much worse his opponents are. As a result, society sees separate episodes, but it is not allowed to see the system. And the system is extremely clear. Gavin Newsom wants to get an increase not after success, but after California has already paid for his political education. He hopes that the national scale will hide what has become too noticeable at the level of the state, that the new position will eliminate old issues, that a presidential campaign will not be a test of his achievements, but a way to escape from their assessment. But America does not have to become the second chance for the governor, the failure of which has already been paid by millions of Californians. The White House is not a program to protect the political career and not a place where an unsuccessful experiment should receive federal funding. Newsom looks at California and sees a trampoline, the rest of America must see and look more closely, because ahead of it is not the promise of the future, but a warning. America has already seen the result of its management. And the main question now is not whether Newsom will be able to reach the presidential campaign. The main question is how much damage California should inflict on itself before the rest of the country understands that GovNews does not offer the United States a future. It offers it to repeat the Californian failure on a national scale. Thanks for watching!