House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday that California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) should be “tarred and feathered” for opposing President Donald Trump ’s deployment of troops in his state.

“I’m not going to give you legal analysis on whether Gavin Newsom should be arrested,” Johnson said Tuesday at a news conference, “but he ought to be tarred and feathered, I’ll say that.”

Newsom has protested Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and Marines to suppress immigrants’ rights protests in California, calling the president’s action “ purposefully inflammatory .”

On Monday, Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against Trump to stop the deployments. It’s the first time in roughly 60 years a president has called in the National Guard to a state wit

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