California Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton said on Newsmax that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent pledge to crack down on crime in major California cities “is literally unbelievable” because “he’s said all this before.”
“This guy is a complete joke, a total buffoon,” Hilton told “Newsline” Friday. “He says all these things, I mean, this is I don’t know how many times he’s announced a crackdown on crime in California and then nothing happens.
“He did it with Oakland a year or so ago, totally out of control chaos and crime and lawlessness. A complete collapse of civilized life in Oakland, in the Bay area, and this is exactly what Newsom said then – ‘California Highway Patrol, we’re going to go in there and sort it out.’ Days later, they had a few officers went in, and days later they were pulled out. Nothing happened.
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