CNN Dunks On Gavin Newsom’s Blatant Lies About His Past

CNN proved Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom wrong Thursday night on his recent claim that neither he or his office used the term “Latinx.”

Newsom told Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk on his podcast that he had never used the far-left term to describe the Latino community, though footage and past social media posts show otherwise. CNN’s Erin Burnett and KFile senior editor Andrew Kaczynski pointed out that the California governor is suddenly walking back his past political stances to appear more politically moderate.

“But there was a person who used Latinx, it was actually a very important person. It was him,” Burnett said after airing the clip.

“Yeah, that’s right and look, these aren’t minor shifts. These are progressive issues that Gavin Newsom used to champion until fairly recently and now he’s not just walking away from then, he’s sort of acting like they were never legitimate with that clip taking about Latinx in the first place,” Kaczynski said.

The segment aired several clips of Newsom using the term “Latinx” as recently as January 2023, when he criticized Republican politicians for attempting to ban the term instead of “assault rifles.”

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the governor used the word several times during press briefings. The governor used the terms again during briefings held on July 22, 2020, Aug. 3, 2020, and Aug. 10, 2020, where he discussed the impact of COVID on Hispanic communities.

“If you look at a few of these right here, you see there, that is a lot of use of Latinx by him for somebody who said that nobody in his office has ever used that phrase,” Kaczynski continued.