Alarming Newsom Rumors Swirl, And Dems Get Taste of Own Medicine as California Gov Vanishes from Radar

The left spent Labor Day weekend buzzing with a grotesque new rumor: President Donald Trump was supposedly dead. The claim spread through progressive circles with such intensity that even Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz — the Democrats’ consolation pick for a running mate if Kamala Harris had been viable — decided to get cute with it.

“I will say this,” Walz teased during a Labor Day appearance. “The last few days, you woke up thinking there might be news. Just saying. There will be news sometime, just so you know. There will be news.”

Yes, Walz joined the chorus of basement-level gossipers, keeping alive the latest installment of wishful thinking from a left that never stops projecting. But the rumor collapsed as soon as Trump appeared in public, alive and well, greeting supporters. The same media that normally screams “disinformation” when conservatives post memes suddenly lost interest in correcting lies about the sitting President of the United States.

But if Democrats want to play the rumor game, let’s talk about California Gov. Gavin Newsom — the man many in the party are already grooming for 2028. Unlike the baseless chatter about Trump, Newsom has a paper trail of scandals, cover-ups, and personal demons.

Start with 2007. As mayor of San Francisco, Newsom admitted to an affair with his campaign manager’s wife — who also happened to be his best friend’s spouse — all while she was reportedly battling mental health struggles. Newsom claimed he was heading to rehab for alcohol abuse, but even that story shifted over the years.

“My problems with alcohol are not an excuse for my personal lapses in judgment,” Newsom said at the time. “Upon reflection with friends and family this weekend, I have come to the conclusion that I will be a better person without alcohol in my life.”

The San Francisco Examiner’s coverage was brutal: not only was Newsom’s “treatment” limited to outpatient care, but reporters openly listed the restaurants and bars where the mayor was frequently spotted in “various states of intoxication.” When the press can pinpoint your drinking haunts, it’s more than idle chatter.

Fast-forward to 2018, and suddenly Newsom changed his tune, claiming he’d never been in rehab at all and had returned to “moderate drinking.” He framed his past as a character-building moment that led him to his current marriage.

But old habits die hard. During the peak of the Los Angeles riots earlier this year, Newsom wasn’t with first responders, grieving families, or business owners under siege — he was enjoying a “luxury wine-tasting” event. The optics echoed earlier reports from 2006, when a San Francisco supervisor recalled the then-mayor arriving “slightly intoxicated” at the hospital after a police officer was killed in the line of duty.

So, what exactly is Gavin Newsom’s problem? Alcohol? Drugs? A chronic addiction to trolling Trump while failing miserably? Or just a lifelong inability to tell the truth?

If it’s fair game for Tim Walz to joke about whether President Trump is dead simply because he took a few days out of the spotlight, then it’s fair game to remind Americans that Newsom’s personal record is a minefield of lies, lapses, and hypocrisy.

And unlike Trump — who thrives by confronting the left head-on — Newsom has spent his career dodging accountability. The contrast could not be clearer.