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Newsom’s former chief of staff Dana Williamson has supporters and enemies in Sacramento, with her aggressive style and passion for policy.

Williamson faces charges of falsifying COVID loan documents.

The indictment threatens to complicate Newsom’s national trajectory as he challenges Trump, though the governor himself is not implicated.

The FBI was secretly listening last year when a high-ranking advisor to Gov. Gavin Newsom unleashed a stream of profanities as she vented about a public records request from an unnamed individual.

“Double f— her!” said Dana Williamson, Newsom’s chief of staff, repeating the f word throughout the conversation. She also called another person an “a—,

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