NEW: Gavin Newsom disbanded a highly trained team of certified firefighters in early 2024 — a move that left his National Guard incapable of sending a complete firefighting force to Los Angeles until 10 days after the fires broke out.
This story is wild, read this🧵to the end
First, some background.
The California State Guard is an all-volunteer militia force that reports directly to Newsom, its commander in chief.
In 2020, the State Guard launched Team Blaze. It was an on-call strike force staffed entirely with certified volunteer firefighters, all at virtually no cost to the state.
Team Blaze was effective. It battled the 2021 Dixie Fire, the largest single-source wildfire in California state history. The team also performed search-and-rescue missions during that fire.
Team Blaze came at virtually no cost to California.
Its certified volunteer firefighters attended regular trainings at their own expense.
An outside charity procured much of the team's firefighting equipment at no cost to the state.
California only paid Team Blaze when it was activated to fight a fire.
BREAKING: Gavin Newsom fired one of California's most experienced wildfire response experts in 2022, leaving him on the sidelines earlier this month as Los Angeles burned.
The former general is now suing Newsom, alleging his termination was driven by anti-Semitic animus.
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What's striking about Gen. Jeffrey Magram's case is there's no dispute he was an incredible asset to the California National Guard, especially in his ability to combat some of the largest wildfires in state history.
Magram's officer performance reports speak for themselves 👇
So, why did Newsom fire Magram?
Because his appointee to lead the California National Guard, Matt Beevers, who has faced accusations of referring to his Jewish subordinates as "kike lawyers," said Magram was no longer fit to serve as a senior military leader due to allegations made in an Air Force IG report.
BREAKING: @FreeBeacon has obtained audio of a whistleblower privately warning Fani Willis in 2021 that her top aide was trying to misuse federal funds.
Willis did not dispute the allegations.
56 days later, Willis fired the whistleblower and perp walked her out of the office.
Willis provided no justification when she fired the whistleblower, Amanda Timpson, on Jan. 14, 2022.
For the full story on this whistleblower recording and Timpson's allegations of misappropriation in the Willis administration, click the link below.
The @FreeBeacon obtained this recording as Willis's racketeering case against Donald Trump is on the verge of imploding over allegations she misappropriated taxpayer funds to facilitate her affair with special prosecutor Nathan Wade.
If AOC is indeed married, her spouse's finances are now subject to public disclosure.
But she did not disclose any of Roberts’s reportable stock holdings, assets, or income on her latest financial disclosure, though she did make two references to her "spouse" in the filing.
AOC's office told me she and Roberts "are not legally married."
They added: "House Ethics has commonly recognized the term spouse to extend to long-term partners."
This is false. House Ethics is clear. It considers a spouse to be "someone to whom you are legally married."