{"id":64692,"date":"2025-01-11T13:22:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T21:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64692"},"modified":"2025-01-11T13:22:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T21:22:57","slug":"fox-news-host-calls-for-a-full-federal-takeover-of-california-and-declaration-of-martial-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64692","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Host Calls for a Full Federal Takeover of California and Declaration of Martial Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case anyone has not been convinced that Donald Trump has designs on becoming an imperialist totalitarian like his idol Vladimir Putin, he has lately been maniacally posturing to invade and annex several of America&#8217;s international allies, including Mexico, Panama, Canada, and Greenland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Fox News Host Calls for a Full Federal Takeover of California and Declaration of Martial Law%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64692\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/watters-wiggum.jpg\" alt=\"Jesse Watters, Fox News\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36688\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s threats in this regard may just be pseudo-macho chest-thumping, or attempts to intimidate foreign leaders with militaristic taunts, or pandering to his MAGA cult that tingles when he pretends to be a tough guy, or maybe he really thinks he can get away with it. Whatever his reasoning, he has the unwavering support of his Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News, that is also his primary recruiting pool for his next White House administration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64165\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Nominees Are Largely Fox News Alum, Mar-a-Lago Patrons, and Billionaires<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the bottom of the pile of Trump-fluffing Fox News sycophants, is the network&#8217;s crass clown, Jesse Watters. And on Friday he delivered one his hallmark harangues that is littered with lies and perverse propositions. In response to the wildfire tragedies unfolding in Los Angeles, California, Watters floated a plan that his Dear Leader Trump would happily sign onto&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is biblical-level destruction. And the city of L.A. is hosting the Olympics in four years. There\u2019s no way we can showcase L.A. to the world. A full federal takeover is needed. Invoke the Stafford Act. The state\u2019s overwhelmed. Martial law might have to be declared.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HOLY SHIH TZU! Trump hasn&#39;t even been inaugurated yet and Jesse Watters of Fox News is already calling for a Martial Law takeover of California. He&#39;s exploiting a crisis to advance Trump&#39;s fascist aspirations. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Opp7WD2zjO\">https:\/\/t.co\/Opp7WD2zjO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\/status\/1878008903281111346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This sort of fascist dictatorial control is rapidly becoming the goto solution for every problem that Trump World encounters. Watters&#8217; suggestion that the entire state of California be seized by the Feds would disenfranchise the millions of citizens in the state who repudiated Trump in November&#8217;s election. And his logic is patently absurd.<\/p>\n<p>Watters is disparaging the efforts of state and local officials, as well as thousands of first responders who are working their arses off to save lives and property. And he&#8217;s concluding from that that the 2028 Olympics should be moved out of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Great idea. Deprive the city of much needed revenue during a time of crisis following a natural disaster. You may notice that Watters never suggested anything like this after the hurricanes and tornadoes that sweep across Florida, North Carolina, Louisiana, and the rest of the South every freakin&#8217; year.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his comments above, Watters also made wholly unfounded accusations about California&#8217;s state and local officials. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/foxs-jesse-watters-calls-for-full-federal-takeover-of-los-angeles-complete-with-martial-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mediaite reports<\/a><\/strong> him saying that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Primetime is calling for a federal takeover of California. [&#8230;] We can\u2019t wait for a recall election. This is an issue of national security. This is a public health emergency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[And&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The elected officials in California can\u2019t be trusted. They\u2019re criminally negligent. [&#8230;] If they\u2019re left in charge to rebuild L.A., they\u2019re going to steal the money. Nothing\u2019s going to get rebuilt.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is, of course, no basis for making those charges, other than the inbred biases of Watters and his knee-jerk hostility toward anyone who isn&#8217;t a fellow member of the Trump cult. And he is permitted to go on the air at Fox News with these slurs despite having no proof whatsoever. Remember, it was Fox News that was forced to settle a defamation lawsuit for $787 million due to lies they told about the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe some of the innocent targets of Watters&#8217; lies will step up to sue him and Fox over this new set of flagrant falsehoods. But rest assured that the residents of California will not sit by idly and let Trump invade their state to impose his tyrannical will on them, like he&#8217;s proposing to do to Panama, Canada, and Greenland. That would be a good way to get California to petition for secession.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64684\" target=\"_blank\">WHINE, WHINE, WHINE! 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Click here to Tweet this article Trump&#8217;s threats in this regard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,684,8,16],"tags":[554,33,227,1020],"class_list":["post-64692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-jesse-watters","tag-olympics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/FoxNews\/watters-wiggum.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-gPq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45842,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45842","url_meta":{"origin":64692,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Apologizes for &#8216;Mistakenly&#8217; Cropping Trump Out of Epstein Photo","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/6\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The mission of Fox News from its inception has been to unreservedly promote right-wing propaganda and the agenda of the arch-conservative Republican Party. 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