Vice President JD Vance punished Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday and the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, arguing that elected leaders are endangering the lives of the agents of the law due to their opposition to federal immigration raids in Los Angeles and the surrounding communities.
Vance, while meting with federal, state and local officials in Los Angeles on Friday afternoon, justified President Trump's decision to confiscate the control of the Troops of the National Guard of California of Newsom and deploy them in Los Angeles, a decision that triggered a legal battle between state and federal officials.
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“What happened here was a tragedy,” Vance told reporters. “You had people who were doing the simple job to enforce the law, and you had uproar, incorporated by the governor and the mayor, which made it difficult for them to do their job.”
Although Newsom and Bass have criticized immigration raids, which led to sporadic violent protests and attacks against officials responsible for enforcing the law, both have repeatedly urged protesters to remain peaceful.
Bass, who was not invited to meet with Vance, dismissed his description of what has been developed in Los Angeles in the last two weeks.
“Unfortunately, the vice president did not take the time to learn about our city and understand that our city is a city of immigrants from all countries and continents on the planet,” Bass said at a press conference on Friday night. “But, again, I needed to justify the hundreds of millions of dollars of the wasted taxpayers who wasted in the performance of a trick.
“How do you dare to say that city officials encourage violence,” Bass said. “We kept peace.”
Newsom repeatedly weighed on the social media platform X, especially about Vance by calling Senator Alex Padilla “José” during his comments.
Padilla was dragged to the ground by the federal agents of the law and briefly arrested when he tried to ask the National Secretary of National Security Kristi Noem during a press conference last week.
“I expected José Padilla to be here to ask a question, but unfortunately I guess he decided not to introduce himself because there was no theater, and that is,” Vance said.
Speaking in MSNBC the next morning, Padilla suggested that the evil was intentional, and a reflection of biased priorities.
“He knows my name,” said Padilla. “Look, unfortunately, it is only an indicator of how petty and insertious is this administration. But he is the vice president of the United States. You think he would take the situation in Los Angeles more seriously.”
Vance's visit to Los Angeles, which lasted less than five hours, coincided with the annual summer retirement of the Republican National Committee in Beverly Hills. Tickets for fundraising in the four seasons that Vance appeared at costs of up to $ 445,000, according to Notus, a non -profit news group.
Vance landed in Lax around 1:35 pm and toured the Federal Construction Command Center, a FBI mobile command center that is being used by the application of immigration and customs of the United States. It was informed by officials of the Department of Defense, the Administration of Drug Control, the Department of National Security, the Immigration and Customs Control of the United States, the Los Angeles Police Department and the California road patrol.
The journalists who were traveling with the vice president were told that they did not allow to cover Vance meetings with the officials there because the installation contained classified information. Vance was also scheduled to meet the Marines during his visit.
During his visit to federal officials, Vance described the actions of Newsom and Bass during the “shameful” protests, he referred to actions as “disturbances” and said that Trump decided to deploy troops from the California National Guard.
“We have to remember that the day the riots began, before there was once a single man of the National Guard, before the president of the United States had sent additional resources, you had agents of the law that were being captured and beaten by a violent crowd, crossed by Gavin Newsom and other officials,” Vance told the journalists of the command center. “It was necessary to send to the National Guard to stop this process to return an order to this great city.”
The vice president attended the collection of funds in Beverly Hills, and was high in the Two Air Force shortly after 6 pm
Newsom has repeatedly criticized federal raids, saying that they violated Trump's vote to attack violent criminal immigrants, but also urged the Californians who protested the actions to do so peacefully and said that those who participated in the illegality would be arrested.
During the protests in the center of Los Angeles, federal agents remained guards around federal buildings that were the focus of protesters. Los Angeles Police officers, as well as the officers of other local police agencies and the California road patrol, responded in large quantities and repeatedly moved away the protesters of the National Guard troops who pushed the crowds to ride in the civic center of the center.
Standing next to Bill A. Essayli, US prosecutor of the Central District of California, and the assistant director of the FBI, Akil Davis, Vance defended the deployment of Marines and National Guard troops in Los Angeles.
“That's why we are here, that's why these guys are standing by my side,” Vance said. “That is why we have about 5,000 soldiers and marines of the Department of Defense. It is because we have to enforce the law.”
The visit occurs when California officials and federals fight in the Court for the control of the California National Guard. Trump federalized the troops for Newsom's objections and sent them to Los Angeles after immigration raids caused protests.
On Thursday, the Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit of the United States maintained control of troops in Trump, while the problem was litigated in the Federal Court. On Friday, a federal judge in San Francisco asked lawyers that federal and state governments present summaries at noon on Monday about the POSSE Commitatus Law, which largely prohibits the use of federal military forces in the application of civil law, and the time that the California National Guard is under the control of the federal government.
Atty General Rob Bonta has promised to continue fighting the Trump administration for the decision.
The clash has left Newsom and Trump administration officials who trades with spikes in interviews and social networks. Vance did not meet with the senior elected officials of the most populous state in the country.
“We are always open to work together, which makes it even more disappointing that the White House chose not to interact with us directly before the visit,” said a statement from the governor's office. “We still have to receive any official notice of the vice president's trip, which, for what we understand, focuses on a high dollar funds.”
Later, Newsom published a video about X, directing Vance directly and urging the vice president to meet with the victims of the fires of Palisades and Altadena.
“Months have passed since some of the most devastating forest fires occurred in the history of the United States, tens of thousands of completely torn lives,” said Newsom in the video. “I hope you have the opportunity to spend a quality time with some of the victims of families in Las Palisades and also spend time in Altadena, which is incredibly important.”
Newsom also urged Vance to talk to Trump about the comments that the president made earlier this week, which suggests that he would reduce the relief of disasters for fires due to the ongoing dispute with Newsom.
“It is honestly also important, and I honestly mean this, that you feel with the president of the United States, who only a couple of days ago suggested that these US citizens do not receive the support that other citizens receive throughout this country in terms of disaster relief,” said Newsom. “I hope we will direct it again. We are counting on you, Mr. Vice President.”
Times staff writer Julia Wick, Dave Zahniser and Lila Seidman contributed to this report.
