Newsom: Only thing missing from Trump speech was ‘tin foil’

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) blasted President Trump’s primetime speech on Thursday in which he cast doubt on the security of U.S. election systems, warning that the president would use it as a precursor to meddle in the upcoming midterms.

Newsom likened the speech to the “ramblings of a mad king” in a 53-second video posted on social media, suggesting it presented a “legitimate” case for Trump’s removal under the 25th Amendment.

“Well, the only thing missing tonight in Donald Trump’s speech was tin foil,” the governor said in an apparent reference to Trump’s widely unsubstantiated claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

“Foreign interference in our elections, that’s a real thing,” Newsom continued. “Nothing about what you watched tonight, though, was real. It’s make-believe.”

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