President Trump rips Gavin Newsom’s death row decision as ‘disaster for Justice in America’

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President Donald Trump weighed in for the first time on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s controversial decision to commute the death sentences of all 548 condemned inmates in California.

President Donald Trump blasted Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision to commute the death sentences of all 548 death row inmates in California in his first remarks on the governor’s controversial move.

“Many of these names, people who have killed, over and over again, can’t believe their luck in having a Governor so incompetent and insensitive that he would not let the long and winding legal system prevail,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Saturday morning, calling the decision “a disaster for Justice in America.”

“The family members of those who were so viciously killed are, rightfully, devastated. Hopefully this decision will be overturned!” added Trump, who called the death row inmates “some of the worst cold–blooded murderers to have ever lived on the face of the Earth.”

Multiple family members of victims killed by the spared inmates have expressed outrage over Newsom’s move, which he framed as a decision he was morally compelled to make.

“He’s putting these people closer and closer and closer to freedom, and these are absolutely the worst, most disgusting people that have ever lived,” father Marc Klaas told the California Post.

His daughter, 12-year-old Polly Klaas, was kidnapped in 1993 at knifepoint from a slumber party and murdered. Richard Allen Davis was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 1996.

“The whole idea that my daughter’s killer is getting this gift of life that was denied to all of the victims of these characters” is offensive, Klaas added.

Trump’s hope of the commutations being overturned comes as victims’ advocates promised to legally challenge Newsom’s mass commutation.

Anne Marie Schubert, a former district attorney who now leads the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, told The Post her organization will force scrutiny on the commutations in court. Such commutations are usually done on a case-by-case basis instead of a blanket move, she said.

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