Trump Vs. California… and Vice Versa
If Donald Trump is elected president, Attorney General Rob Bonta will immediately begin filing nearly daily lawsuits against him
By Thomas Buckley, November 4, 2024 12:01 pm
If Donald Trump is elected president, a few things will happen here in California.
First, Attorney General Rob Bonta will immediately begin filing nearly daily lawsuits against him, most likely even before Trump is sworn in. Bonta will do this to burnish his anti-Trump credentials in the run up to the 2026 gubernatorial election, keep his name in the papers, and be able to fund raise off the fact that he is the “only person trying to Trump” from laying waste to the wonderful and beautiful and perfect state of California.
Overstating the case? In Trump’s first term, the state filed – really – a record-setting more than 100 lawsuits against him and his administration by then AG and now invisible Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Bockarhea (at least that how Biden pronounces his name).
Second, the powers that be will immediately start telling Californians that Trump will definitely order the killing of fish, the creation of LGBQTIA+ camps (hold on to your property in Inyo County – the feds will surely come a knockin’) the burning of forests, the wasting of water, the banning of every book except “The Art of the Deal,” the legalization of condor hunting, and maybe just maybe he’ll order the placing of nuclear devices along the San Andreas Fault to make sure that the coastal counties that don’t like him just float away.
He is perceived and deemed as a terror ready to strike at the very heart of being California.
Why? Well, first of all he has criticized how the state is run.
In a September speech in Rancho Palos Verdes, Trump said the state “is a mess,” that crime and homelessness have skyrocketed, that California has high taxes, high gas prices, high utility prices, is absurdly over-regulated, a terrible place to start a business, and allows things like “sanctuary cities” and the paying of public benefits to illegal aliens.
How dare he.
Of course, all of that is true.
But just to emphasize how the press does not really understand that Trump is to be taken seriously but not literally, CalMatters valiantly tried to “fact check” his claims into oblivion, but, well…nice try.
The Los Angeles Times is preparing its readers – those that have cancelled recently, at least – for the coming deluge of awful. Trump has already created a “culture of retribution,” and that he will be vengeful, he will be mean and nasty and endanger the lives of, say, illegals? Or Trans babies? Or authors? Well, you get the point.
Also at risk is, of course, the environment and California’s glorious effort to lead the world into a greener, all-electric, completely unaffordable future.
“There are two distinct threats. One is the Trump administration, and one is the courts,” said Ann Carlson, former head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration under President Joe Biden (now an environmental law professor at UCLA, of course).
While at NHTSA, folks should be reminded, Carlson championed the idea of a “kill switch” for personal automobiles.
A Trump administration could, for example, make sure California doesn’t get the special EPA waiver that would allow the Air Resources Board to implement absurdly draconian regulations and even require the use of “clean air” technology that literally does not exist.
Another California fantasy – high speed rail – could also come under renewed pressure. During his first administration, Trump not only stopped federal money from going to the project but even had the temerity to try to get the state to pay back hundreds of millions it had already wasted.
It is true that, given the chance, Trump will kill the project. And that is not at all a bad thing.
So, does California hate Trump? No matter what happens nationally Tuesday, the state will vote for Kamala Harris, though a big question is by how much. If she doesn’t bank a few million vote margin here, she will not be able to claim, like Hillary Clinton when she lost, that she at least “won” the popular vote if she suffers the same fate.
So does Trump hate California? No – Trump hates how California is being run.
And, looking at the latest poll numbers, so do most Californians.
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Normally I would call what you have stated as conventional wisdom and support it whole heartedly. This time I am inclined to say that we are in unconventional times and believe that the likes of Bonta and Newsom are going to cause any trouble for California or Trump. I actually believe that things are going to flip and that both Bonta and Newsom are going to be tried for the crimes that they have committed. In 2017 the US Attorney General was working against the Trump administration. This time around Trump’s attorney general will call balls and strikes from a different perspective.
“In 2017 the US Attorney General was working against the Trump administration.”
This is not exactly how I remember Jeff Sessions’ tenure, Hal. He was a strong supporter of Trump and his policies while in the Senate and during the 2016 campaign. Sessions did recuse himself (a mistake at the time, imo) in the Russia-gate investigation and I believe this was due to a lack of knowledge, poor advice he received, low self-confidence and his connections in the Senate where he was pressured by members of the uni-party establishment. In other words, the job of Attorney General was simply too big for him. The FBI and intelligence community were the real villains – Comey, McCabe, Strock (and girlfriend) along with Brennan and the others from Obama’s crew supported by Clinton’s mafia. I do not believe that Sessions was actively working AGAINST the Trump administration, if Russia-gate is what you are referring to. Or are you referring to something else?
Sessions was pigeonholed into inactivity until he resigned/or was fired. Trump came in with inexperienced people that did not understand how the machine worked. I also believe that this time Trump will have both of the House & Senate and that there will be more for him than against him.
“But just to emphasize how the press does not really understand that Trump is to be taken seriously but not literally, CalMatters valiantly tried to “fact check” his claims into oblivion, but, well…nice try.
The Los Angeles Times is preparing its readers – those that have cancelled recently, at least – for the coming deluge of awful. Trump has already created a “culture of retribution,” and that he will be vengeful, he will be mean and nasty and endanger the lives of, say, illegals? Or Trans babies? Or authors? Well, you get the point.”
I agree, Thomas. The TDS affliction is too pervasive among these people for them to think rationally. Wrt, the Harris campaign “Trump retaliation” narrative which is being used as another scare tactic to influence voters – there will be NO retaliation. However, there will be prosecution of law breakers like Tren De Aragua. When Mr. Trump speaks, he often uses over-the-top bombastic rhetoric to gain a bargaining advantage. The TDS types should really read “The Art of the Deal”. He has “threatened” China with a 100% tariff (or 200%…any high number you like) IF they build automobile factories in Mexico to sell their cars in the USA. His justification for this high-level “threat” is that he will not have to implement such a tariff because the Chinese will stop building those factories – which is exactly what they have done. China is supporting Harris but Trump could (and will, imo) WIN. So, the Chinese are waiting until the results are final.
So, what type of event would have to take place that would bring the majority of those that suffer from TDS together with those that are MAGA?
When watching the Madison Square Garden event, I noticed that President Trump completely ignored California- he said ‘ from New York to Las Vegas’ – and that makes me mad ….. mad at Gavin Newsom for totally destroying our beautiful state.
There used to be a reason we all paid more to live here.
Now we are just the punchline of a sick Newsom/Pelosi joke.
A joke that has those two laughing all the way to the bank.
Today , I voted as far right as I could – just to send a message that will fall on the deaf ears of our one party state.