Gavin Newsom Accuses Trump Administration of Spreading Fake Protest Images

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Newsweek

Published Jun 14, 2025 at 5:24 AM EDT | Updated Jun 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM EDT


California Governor Gavin Newsom has accused the Trump administration of deliberately spreading doctored and misleading images of recent protests in Los Angeles.

On X, formerly Twitter, the Department of Defense's Rapid Response account posted a video that appeared to show burning, graffitied police cars during protests in Los Angeles this week. However, the fact-checking website Snopes said the image showed protests in Los Angeles following the death of George Floyd in May 2020.

The governor's office wrote on X on Friday: "HUGE DEVELOPMENT: An official Department of Defense account is spreading fake images—from old protests—to justify Trump's illegal militarization of Los Angeles. This isn't just disinformation. It's a propaganda campaign from the Pentagon."

Sean Parnell, the Pentagon's chief spokesperson, told Newsweek in response: "Gavin Newsom has let L.A. burn to the ground on so many occasions, it's hard to distinguish between all the lawlessness, violence, and chaos throughout the last few years. President Trump and Secretary Hegseth are stepping up to protect federal law-enforcement officers and federal property—even if Gavin Newsom will not." Newsweek has contacted Newsom's office for comment via email.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/gavin-newsom-trump-fake-protest-images-2085492

[SpankMe]

1. Liberal media my ass

The right-wing Newsweek sowing more doubt with such tentative language in a headline: Newsom accuses the administration of fake imagery.

Newsweek has staff that can confirm the imagery as fake and more correctly report that the administration has actually released fake images, and not merely been accused of it by a detractor.

This kind of pussy-ass, soft-pedaled reporting underemphasizes the reality and seriousness of the situation.

Fuck Newsweek for not researching this and reporting on facts rather than just reporting a he-said, she-said event and moving on.

[Hornedfrog2000]

4. Exactly what i thought

Its not an accusation. They gaslight the fuck out of all of us

[sop]

5. Why do we have to rely on Snopes.com to investigate and determine the veracity of stories and images?

Fact-finding and accurate reporting is fundamental, basic Journalism 101. It's literally the only job of our so-called "news media," and the reason they enjoy constitutional protection.

[blm]

2. RightWing committed the worst of the violence and ALL murders of police in 2020 protests.

Oct/2020:

Feds say far-right group coordinated attack on Minneapolis police precinct during protest

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota on Friday announced that the FBI brought charges against a member of the far-right “Boogaloo Bois” group for organizing and participating in an effort to “incite a riot” outside a Minneapolis police precinct in May amid protests against the police killing of George Floyd.
According to the legal complaint filed Monday, Ivan Harrison Hunter, a 26-year-old from Boerne, Texas, who claims to be a member of the Boogaloo Bois, communicated with fellow members in late May ahead of a planned trip to Minneapolis as police had already started clashing with protesters in the city.

https://thehill.com/homenews/news/522509-feds-say-far-right-group-coordinated-attack-on-minneapolis-police-precinct/

[sop]

3. Doctored Abrego-Garcia tattoos, fake South African white genocide burial sites, phony L.A. protest images...

The definition of "trumped-up": fraudulently concocted; invented as an excuse or a false accusation; deliberately based on false information so that someone will be accused of doing something wrong and punished.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. "trumped up".... We should use that phrase much more often because it applies so often. . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. He's right to call it propaganda. And Pentagon didn't deny it, just misdirected again with "burn to the ground" lie. .nt

[Clouds Passing]

8. Fake blood on ear

[BumRushDaShow]

12. CA Governor's Press Office

Link to tweet

Governor Newsom Press Office
@GovPressOffice
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🚨HUGE DEVELOPMENT: An official Department of Defense account is spreading fake images — from old protests — to justify Trump’s illegal militarization of Los Angeles.

This isn’t just disinformation.

It’s a propaganda campaign from the Pentagon.
12:32 AM · Jun 14, 2025

[C Moon]

17. Sorry. I wasn't putting u down.

I was posting a pun in response to someone saying Newsweek is a RWPub. Meant to hit “reply.”

Your work here is cherished.
Have a gr8 weekend.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. I saw the pun

(I know people complain about most of the media and I agree with them - but gotta sort through and find out what is going on in the world, even if some modicum of info can come from some flawed sources )

[LymphocyteLover]

10. WTAF. These motherfuckers just blatantly lie their asses off because they hate Dems so much

Now they are shooting Dems. Enough!!! This is so fucked up.

[flashman13]

11. That is all very odd. Last time I was in L.A. it was all there and geting more all there by the day.

[paleotn]

13. Blue cities have "burned" more times than Atlanta in Gone With The Wind.

They're feeding their base regurgitated bullshit.

[BidenRocks]

14. I really want to know more

about the dead during the phony assassination.
I want to see bodies! Sorry, but I retired from the movie business and have seen realistic shoot outs. T-2 for one.
I believe the story was buried and the "victims" are in witness protection.
I can apologize later, but this needs to be done.

Just the first spark in the Reichstag Fire.

[krkaufman]

15. I thought it was illegal ...

… for the DoD to conduct propaganda campaigns against the US public?

[BumRushDaShow]

16. Many of us think it was illegal

for the Executive Branch to refuse to spend funds appropriated by Congress or lay off employees without Congressional authorization (Impoundment Act) or spend money for "buyouts" without designated appropriated money authorized by Congress (Antideficiency Act).

But nowadays, "nothing" is illegal except being a non-hetero white male Christian.

[Hekate]

19. I believe Gavin Newsom, as it happens. The protestors were notably peaceful all day...

… and suddenly out of the blue, inexplicably, the mounted cops started crowding the protestors, protestors found themselves crowded into some enclosed area of the park? And the cops tossed tear gas. And then — they fired into the crowd, and I saw that.

Next thing we knew the cops were spinning this tale about out of control rioters, and it spread across the country.

Somebody is lying. Somebody is making propaganda sponsored by the federal government.