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Gavin Newsom’s Secrets Exposed by ‘Fool’s Gold’

David Harris Jr., host of Newsmax’2’s The Pulse interview program, welcomed co-authors Susan Crabtree and Jedd McFatter, who just published their book, Fool’s Gold. McFatter, a research director at GAI, reveals Gavin Newsom secretly funded his $97K San Francisco statue with his own companies’ cash, masked as donor gifts. Crabtree slams Newsom’s performative reign—PG&E’s $2.5M

Eric Eggers joins David Harris Jr. to talk DOGE, DC wealth, and waste

GAI Vice President Eric Eggers joined Newsmax2’s David Harris Jr. to discuss the backlash of the DC “swamp”’s backlash ” to Elon Musk and DOGE’s $105B waste-cutting spree. Musk accuses left-wing donors like George Soros, Reid Hoffman, and the ActBlue fundraising organization of funding Tesla vandalism. President Donald Trump has vowed to label those culprits

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Fools Gold: Newsom’s Bailouts, Beijing, and Broken California Dream | 3.16.25

Fool’s Gold has already made an impression on the national discourse around the state (in both senses) of California. On the weekend edition of MorningWire, a daily podcast, the new book’s co-authors Jedd McFatter of GAI and Susan Crabtree of RealClearPolitics peel back the curtain on Governor Gavin Newsom’s controversial ties to PG&E, Communist China,

Fool’s Gold: California Gov. Gavin Newsom tries to shrug off details of how his own companies paid for his own statue.

GAI Research Director Jedd McFatter, co-author of a new book revealing corruption in California politics, responded to comments made about the book by California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Fool’s Gold has already generated headlines since its March 11 release. Reporters seized on the details of a scheme thoroughly documented in the book of how Gavin Newsom

“California Dream is as good as dead”

In this interview with The Hill Susan Crabtree, co-author of Fool’s Gold, a new book she co-wrote with GAI’s Jedd McFatter, declares the California Dream dead under Democratic rule. Crabtree, a California resident and senior correspondent for RealClearPolitics, blames Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, and Nancy Pelosi for wildfires, homelessness, drug deaths, and crime, spotlighting Newsom’s

Fool’s Gold discussed on Vince Coglianese show

On March 10, Vince Coglianese, the new host of the former Dan Bongino show, interviewed Susan Crabtree about the book, Fool’s Gold, that she co-authored with GAI’s Jedd McFatter. The book exposes the corrupt reasons for California’s decline under Democratic elites such as Gavin Newsom. She highlights Newsom’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party, detailing

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NY Post: Gavin Newsom bailed out utility responsible for California wildfires – after collecting six figures in donations, new book claims

California Gov. Gavin Newsom bailed out his state’s biggest utility, which caused some of the Golden State’s worst wildfires, after being showered in hundreds of thousands in donations from executives, according to a scorching assessment of his leadership in a new book. Instead, he opted to go after oil and gas companies over climate change

Fox News: Newsom’s ties to CCP under microscope in new book exposing alleged corruption: ‘Fleeced American citizens’

‘Fool’s Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All’ will be released on Tuesday A new book sounding the alarm about corruption in California spends a chapter focusing on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s history with a nonprofit organization that the authors say served as a major “gateway”