Valuetainment - July 07, 2026


“Wore a Wire To Infiltrate” - Newsom Had an FBI Mole Probing Corruption

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Gavin Newsom Scott Williamson Marianne Williamson Alexis Podesta Adam Will Aunt Nancy Pelosi Donnie Brasco J.B. Pritzker Casa D'Angelo Bubbles Pimp Nick Shirley Joe Pistone Karen Bass JD Vance Al Capone McGregor
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The FBI had a mole inside Gavin Newsom s political orbit before the agency s corruption probe expanded into the Governor and his wife. The New York Post has learned Democrat insider Alexis Podesta, 45, secretly recorded conversations during the criminal probe into Newsom's then-chief of staff, Dana Williamson.

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00:00:00.000 FBI infiltrated Gavin Newsom's inner circle by convincing Governor's ally to wear a wire.
00:00:06.740 This is a New York Post story.
00:00:08.620 The FBI had a mole inside Gavin Newsom's political orbit before the agency's corruption probe expanded into the governor and his wife.
00:00:15.880 The Post has learned Democrat insider Alexis Podesta, 45, secretly recorded conversations during the criminal probe into Newsom's then chief of staff, Dana Williamson, 53, who pleaded guilty to federal fraud and tax charges.
00:00:30.000 In May, according to Williamson's attorney, the revelation she was wearing a wire as far back as June 2024. 0.97
00:00:36.360 Damn. 0.98
00:00:37.220 This is like Joe Pistone, Donnie Borasco type of stuff. 0.98
00:00:40.760 Explains why a swat of Sacramento political insiders and lobbyists were stunned to receive FBI letters last fall informing them that their phone calls have been intercepted during the investigation, despite many have little or no connection to Williamson.
00:00:55.680 Alexis wore a wire and Dana did not, said McGregor, Scott Williamson's lawyer and a former U.S. attorney for Eastern District of California, which is now investigating the Newsom's.
00:01:05.940 The disclosure comes as Newsom announced last month that he and his wife, whose nonprofit had been burning through money in recent years, as well as members of the governor's inner circle, are under federal investigation.
00:01:15.400 Within hours of that announcement, Newsom blasted out an email to raise money for Political Action Committee.
00:01:20.720 Tom, what's going on over here?
00:01:22.080 Well, I'll tell you what's going on over here.
00:01:24.200 Williamson, we know what happened there.
00:01:25.880 Dana Williamson pleads guilty, has the situation come up.
00:01:30.960 However, now we find out that there is a wire on this.
00:01:34.920 So we're in a wire, and they are now investigating the Newsom's specifically.
00:01:41.160 The only reason they're investigating the Newsom's is because something came up on the wire.
00:01:44.600 And so they got Williamson, and Williamson, the wire must have been very compelling because he pled before plea.
00:01:52.460 I looked it up.
00:01:53.040 You know what pleading before plea is?
00:01:55.640 It is where your lawyer basically tells the government, says, look, we're going to plead guilty on this.
00:02:02.100 We want to figure out what are we going to do here on sentencing.
00:02:04.460 You go straight to sentencing.
00:02:06.060 You assume that the government's going to get you on one felony or two felony, and so you're suddenly now worried about sentencing, not how many or what charges.
00:02:14.960 Like if it's one felony or three felonies, Adam, you know how this works.
00:02:18.760 You hear people talk about it.
00:02:19.880 He will serve those concurrently.
00:02:21.640 So even though you've done three things, three things should be five years each, but you're only going to serve the five years once.
00:02:28.760 And the six weeks, eight weeks, two months that they had you in temporary jail waiting trial, they credit that as time served.
00:02:37.620 So this is what's happened with Dana Williamson.
00:02:40.100 And so now, check this out.
00:02:42.200 It's the Eastern District of California.
00:02:44.600 The closer you get to the Eastern District, the more moderated you get in California because you're going east.
00:02:51.640 And so they're investigating Newsom.
00:02:53.780 He said nothing about it.
00:02:55.360 He hasn't come out.
00:02:56.440 You see Gavin Newsom come out talking about these guys.
00:02:58.840 I don't know what they're talking about.
00:03:00.140 You know, this president, he's an absolute joke. 1.00
00:03:02.620 He's despicable. 1.00
00:03:03.500 He's horrible. 0.99
00:03:04.420 Are you doing a Trump-Newsom combo? 0.99
00:03:07.200 No, he does Trump.
00:03:08.200 No, but it's Gavin Newsom.
00:03:09.760 Okay, okay.
00:03:10.380 You don't see Gavin Newsom sitting out there.
00:03:12.300 I don't think we know what's going on here.
00:03:14.140 I think we do know we got this.
00:03:16.060 Newsom is not saying that.
00:03:17.840 Newsom is not out there saying things,
00:03:19.740 screwing around with the DOJ.
00:03:21.200 I think there's something big coming because now they've said, we've got Williamson dead to rights, going to sentence.
00:03:29.700 Now we're also investigating the Newsoms, and there's two things there.
00:03:33.120 One, what, if anything, did they have to do with the Williamson crimes?
00:03:36.960 And now they're investigating specifically the leak, the DOJ leak statement is their nonprofit.
00:03:45.240 And remember, we know about the nonprofit.
00:03:47.700 We know about the diaper math, and we know about a few things.
00:03:50.700 So, Pat, it appears that there's some very real things going on.
00:03:54.600 Will it amount to anything?
00:03:56.020 Will Aunt Nancy Pelosi step in?
00:03:58.360 Tune in tomorrow. 0.92
00:03:59.400 And by the way, Tom, great freaking take.
00:04:02.020 And just throwing this out there, the FBI doesn't put a wire on someone because of a rumor.
00:04:08.100 A judge has to sign off on it.
00:04:10.380 So that means they have freaking all the evidence that they needed for a judge to sign off and go,
00:04:14.600 This isn't just a rogue cast. 0.97
00:04:16.860 Your Honor, we believe this guy is dirty.
00:04:18.740 We want a wire on this person, and we want—by the way, there was more than just the wire. 0.93
00:04:23.340 Yeah.
00:04:23.960 You know what they had?
00:04:24.760 What?
00:04:25.140 They had cell phone warrants, and so they said they'd been listening to calls.
00:04:29.020 It's in the statements.
00:04:30.340 And by the way, Alexis Podesta—
00:04:32.240 People got a letter that said, by the way, your phone message is—
00:04:35.140 We have everything.
00:04:36.400 Now?
00:04:36.840 Not for the last two months.
00:04:37.740 Hope he didn't say anything.
00:04:38.740 Yeah, imagine the stuff that they said, but—
00:04:40.640 By the way, Bubbles Pimp left you a message just now.
00:04:43.480 So Alexis Podesta is—by the way, this is a close ally to Newsom.
00:04:47.820 So this is like, this isn't just some random person.
00:04:50.420 And Tom, once they have Dana Williamson, okay,
00:04:53.680 she helped move $225,000 out of a dormant campaign account.
00:04:59.380 And she was disguising it as consultant fees, no show jobs, anything, Tom,
00:05:03.940 for them to less, think about Tom.
00:05:05.300 And that's the only time she ever did that.
00:05:06.920 Yeah, exactly.
00:05:07.720 One time.
00:05:08.320 So once you get caught with something that massive, Pat,
00:05:10.840 think about what you want to talk about people ratting.
00:05:13.080 If you ever watched the first 48, Tom, my favorite show,
00:05:15.880 those people go into the interrogation room as soon as they know that they're done they give
00:05:20.060 them a coca-cola they start ratting on everybody you don't think dana williamson is like listen i
00:05:25.140 will tell you everything just as long as i don't have to spend the rest of my life in jail and
00:05:29.840 mind you all this time all this points to what happens in california they keep pushing remember
00:05:34.220 they did they stopped the nick shirley act keep anything to stop anybody from investigating all
00:05:39.080 the fraud because it's it's rampant and i pray i pray tom that they go down they all go down
00:05:44.900 and they all do the perp walk that everybody in the Trump administration had.
00:05:48.160 So she had control of the accounts, and she was moving the money.
00:05:50.960 How did they eventually get Al Capone?
00:05:53.360 Tax evasion.
00:05:55.120 What guy did they get? His accountant.
00:05:57.600 His accountant. They grabbed that guy.
00:05:59.080 So you're saying something could actually happen here?
00:06:02.140 Look, this is the Department of Justice saying they're investigating Newsom's,
00:06:05.240 they're investigating their charity, and we already know the diaper math.
00:06:08.920 The headline stunk.
00:06:10.680 So it's like, who was getting the money for the diaper?
00:06:12.440 Remember that math? It's like, this is impossible.
00:06:14.900 somebody was getting money for diapers because it was impossible to be paying
00:06:18.560 that kind of money for diapers.
00:06:19.780 Remember all that?
00:06:20.780 Of course.
00:06:21.420 Adam, your thoughts?
00:06:22.540 Pat, I got to tell you, man.
00:06:25.420 Starting to think Gavin Newsom might not be as good at this leadership thing.
00:06:29.240 I don't know.
00:06:30.480 I think he looks the part.
00:06:32.340 I think he could pretend to be the part.
00:06:34.480 I just don't know if he's actually doing the thing.
00:06:37.760 You know, this is completely his leadership under question.
00:06:41.520 We all know what's going on in his state.
00:06:43.840 We see California literally burning down, God forbid, but also behind the scenes in his administration, it seems like there's some shady stuff going on, remains to be seen.
00:06:54.500 It's like at the end of the day, this is a failure of leadership.
00:06:56.960 If you're the CEO of a state or of a company, let's say, you might not be under investigation, but, you know, they say when there's smoke, they're fired.
00:07:04.080 It's like if your COO, your CMO and your chief of staff, they're all under investigation and they're being questioned.
00:07:10.680 And it's like, what kind of culture are you building there
00:07:13.580 in your administration in California?
00:07:15.480 For me, it's pretty simple.
00:07:17.360 Do what you got to do in California, Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass, do all that.
00:07:20.920 But don't California my America.
00:07:24.660 I agree.
00:07:25.100 Is that the mic drop statement that you're making?
00:07:27.820 Is that what's going on there?
00:07:29.340 Pat, you know what?
00:07:30.120 I like that.
00:07:30.660 It was.
00:07:31.320 Okay.
00:07:31.700 It was.
00:07:32.620 Well, listen, I mean, if this is, who do you think,
00:07:35.440 the part I'm trying to find out here is who's setting them up
00:07:40.680 Who's setting them up?
00:07:41.720 Because, Tom, you said something.
00:07:42.800 You said, is the DSA his enemy right now?
00:07:45.760 Is it the Democratic Socialist section that's sitting out there and saying, hey, let's get this guy out?
00:07:53.220 Let's get AOC.
00:07:54.220 You guys saw the other day J.D. Vance gave a shout-out to AOC as a possible candidate of the Democratic Party to the point that they even asked AOC the question.
00:08:02.280 And they said, what do you think about what J.D. Vance said about you?
00:08:04.360 Yeah, I saw that.
00:08:04.880 And if you were to think about who would be more conniving and strategic to get somebody out, who would it be?
00:08:13.740 This is it. Watch this. Watch this, folks.
00:08:18.360 J.D. Vance just said in an interview that he thinks you are—
00:08:21.260 You guys hear it or no?
00:08:22.540 Yeah, I hear it.
00:08:23.060 The president of 2020, let's hear a response.
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00:08:54.840 i mean um you know uh i hope he is that's what i'll say what he said i hope he is what was the
00:09:05.240 question do you hope jd thinks that he thinks that you you could be the nominee why would jd
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00:09:22.460 DSA socialists.
00:09:23.500 Socialists by far.
00:09:23.840 DSA socialists are more true to their cause, right, of what they believe in.
00:09:28.180 Okay, so if that's the case and they really believe in their cause,
00:09:31.980 do you think they have enough true believers that would find a way to destroy their candidates?
00:09:35.560 Would Newsom be one of them?
00:09:36.660 Absolutely.
00:09:37.320 I have not – I've been unwavering in my position that I don't believe that the core DNC wants Gavin Newsom.
00:09:44.280 The core DNC, and I believe what I said because I was reading the tea leaves.
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00:09:53.140 He's Illinois. He's from the Midwest. He's got a lot of money.
00:09:56.820 I don't think that's the guy anymore, but I think the DNC, Pat, is still not on Newsom.
00:10:02.720 They know there's too much baggage, and they don't need California.
00:10:07.080 They're going to win California anyway, and he has a lot of baggage that comes with it.
00:10:11.340 So do I think the DSA, which is more split from the DNC than MAGA ever was from the RNC,
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00:10:21.140 Could they be whispering, maybe go talk to this person too?
00:10:24.360 They do it to each other all the time in the primaries.
00:10:26.980 They kill each other in the primaries.
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