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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) warned in a primetime address Tuesday amid President Donald Trump ’s military response to the Los Angeles protests that this “assault” on democracy will spread across the country if Trump continues to go unchecked.

Amid immigration raids, peaceful protests, attacks on law enforcement officers and the threat of his own arrest by federal agents, California Gov.