Newsom sends Trump security reinforcements at RNC: ‘Public safety transcends party lines’

As the Republican National Convention welcomed former President Donald Trump on Monday, dozens of security officers from deep-blue California were among those guarding the MAGA leader.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) was responsible for reinforcing the GOP’s security forces with 61 officers from his state.

“Public safety transcends party lines,” the Democratic governor said Monday. His words came in the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump last Saturday at a Pennsylvania rally.

After a gunman left one rally attendee dead and gave the former President a bullet wound to his ear, Newsom roundly condemned the shooter.

“Violence has NO place in our democracy. My thoughts are with President Trump and everyone impacted at the rally today,” Newsom said in a post to X.

Newsom’s initial move to boost the RNC’s law enforcement measure came in May, but security at the high-profile GOP gathering has come under scrutiny after the political violence in Pennsylvania.

The California Democrat has come under scrutiny for comments he made comparing Trump to Hitler — the Nazi leader of Germany who murdered at least 6 million Jews. Critics say his words helped galvanize the inflammatory rhetoric that fueled an assassination attempt on the former president.

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After the attack on Trump, the Secret Service announced it had reviewed and strengthened its security plan for the RNC’s convention in Wisconsin.

“The Secret Service is working with all involved Federal, state, and local agencies to understand what happened, how it happened, and how we can prevent an incident like this from ever taking place again,” Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said Monday.