House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Tuesday that California Governor Gavin Newsom should be “tarred and feathered,” even as he criticized the Democrat for allegedly not doing enough to uphold law and order in the face of the ongoing L.A. protests.
The comments mark the latest escalation in a war of words between Newsom and the Republican party, after White House border czar Tom Homan suggested over the weekend that California officials might be arrested if they impeded immigration enforcement, and Newsom responded by daring “tough guy” federal officials like Homan to detain him. (Homan later said his comments had been blown out of proportion, and that Newsom hadn’t done anything warranting arrest.)
