Mike Johnson suggests Gavin Newsom should be ‘tarred and feathered’

House speaker said the California governor is a participant, an accomplice' in the city's ongoing civil unrest

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Republican US House speaker Mike Johnson advocated for a brutal form of vigilante justice to be performed on the Democratic California governor, Gavin Newsom, on Tuesday, saying he should be tarred and feathered" for his opposition to immigration agents' enforcement actions in the state.

Newsom replied: Good to know we're skipping the arrest and going straight for the 1700's style forms of punishment. A fitting threat given the [Republicans] want to bring our country back to the 18th century," when what is now the US was ruled by a monarch.