GOP lawmaker flips script on Newsom, Bass by defining anti-ICE riots with 1 word

EXCLUSIVE: GOP Rep. Darrell Issa is blasting elected Democrat officials successful his location authorities of California implicit their effect to the anti-ICE riots successful Los Angeles aft helium called for a legislature probe into the effect clip of section instrumentality enforcement. 

"These are the aforesaid radical that archer us, you know, Biden was fine, helium was connected the apical of his game," Issa said astir Democrat narratives responding to the riots that person been unfolding successful Los Angeles since Friday. 

"So their credibility goes with what you spot versus what they say. I can't deliberation of a amended illustration of wherefore you shouldn't judge oregon ballot for radical successful that enactment arsenic agelong arsenic they're consenting to virtually prevarication to your look connected what you're seeing with your ain eyes."

Democrats crossed the country, from California to Washington, D.C., have downplayed the rioting and focused connected the assertion that the bulk of the anti-ICE displays person been "peaceful."

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GOP Rep. Darrell Issa, center, praised President Donald Trump's effect to the anti-ICE riots successful Los Angeles and unloaded connected California Democrats similar Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom. (Getty)

Additionally, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and different Democrats person blamed President Donald Trump's mobilizing the National Guard for making the concern worse.

Issa, who represents California’s 48th Congressional District, took contented with that narrative. 

"First of all, determination was damage, some vandalism and existent demolition done earlier Trump got involved, and that's the crushed helium got involved, but there's different happening that immoderate radical miss," Issa told Fox News Digital. 

"When ICE agents called for constabulary enactment erstwhile they were being assaulted, they hunkered down and waited 2 hours earlier constabulary responded due to the fact that constabulary couldn't get authorization to react. So that unsocial gave a crushed for the president to bring successful further federalized troops to support the ICE agents."

On Tuesday, Fox News Digital exclusively reported Issa’s telephone for an probe into the Department of Homeland Security’s assertion that the LAPD took 2 hours to respond to assistance ICE agents being assaulted connected Friday night. 

The LAPD, successful a Sunday property conference, denied that allegation and said it took 40 minutes to respond owed to traffic. 

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A rioter holds up a Mexican flag, June 8, 2025, successful Los Angeles. (Getty Images)

"Understand that we person implicit 10 cardinal radical who were fto into this country, and tens of thousands of them are superior transgression aliens," Issa said. "There were warrants. There were orders to deport. There are reasons that we've got to spell aft galore of these radical successful cities astir the country. If ICE agents can't beryllium protected oregon won't beryllium protected by radical similar the politician and my governor, past the president's going to person to proceed to bash this, yet make escorts for ICE agents."

Issa told Fox News Digital that Trump is doing a "great job" successful his effect to the unrest successful Los Angeles.

"One happening that I'm precise blessed astir is, I cognize that by taking beardown enactment here, he’s keeping it from occurring successful different cities astir the country, due to the fact that what you don’t privation is what yet happened successful 2020 wherever we saw it happening not conscionable successful 1 metropolis but successful metropolis aft metropolis wherever much than 2 twelve radical died and billions of dollars of harm occurred due to the fact that it wasn't handled rapidly enough, and we've learned from that."

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Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Issa told Fox News Digital that helium finds it funny wherefore Democrats person utilized the connection "insurrection" to picture the Jan. 6th riots that lasted hours but person not utilized the word to picture what has unfolded successful Los Angeles implicit respective days.

"We heard the connection ‘insurrection’ for a mates of years nonstop, and present successful Los Angeles, erstwhile radical are straight assaulting spot and instrumentality enforcement, that's the precise explanation of insurrection; and peculiarly erstwhile they're doing it connected behalf of radical who are sitting successful jails due to the fact that they were arrested for crimes, not conscionable for entering the state illegally but for existent felonies," Issa said. 

"And it's benignant of astonishing to judge that high-ranking elected officials similar Gov. Newsom would really effort to support immoderate of that action. And yet they're doing it."

Issa went connected to accidental that Newsom’s effect to the riots "might person worked successful the epoch of people oregon possibly adjacent the epoch of radio" but that video grounds of rioting from the country makes his presumption untenable. 

"Television and podcasts and everyone having a cellphone, those images are going to beryllium what the American radical [is going to] spot erstwhile helium tries to unreal that helium was a bully governor," Issa said. "They're going to spot a nonaccomplishment to bash his occupation and an implicit absorption against those who came successful to bash it for him."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the offices of Newsom and Bass for comment. 

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is nether occurrence by Republicans for however she is handling the ICE protests. (Getty Images)

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"Trump is pulling a subject dragnet each crossed Los Angeles, good beyond his stated intent to conscionable spell aft convulsive and superior criminals," Newsom said connected Tuesday night. "His agents are arresting dishwashers, gardeners, time laborers and seamstresses. That's conscionable weakness. Weakness masquerading arsenic strength. Donald Trump's authorities isn't protecting our communities. They're traumatizing our communities. And that seems to beryllium the full point."

"When Donald Trump sought broad authorization to commandeer the National Guard, helium made that bid use to each authorities successful this nation. This is astir each of us. This is astir you. California whitethorn beryllium first, but it intelligibly volition not extremity here. Other states are next. Democracy is next. Democracy is nether battle earlier our eyes. This infinitesimal we person feared has arrived. He's taking a wrecking ball, a wrecking shot to our Founding Fathers' historical project."