Speaker Mike Johnson says Gavin Newsom ‘ought to be tarred and feathered’ over LA riots

House Speaker Mike Johnson called Tuesday for California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom to be “tarred and feathered” over his response to the riots raging in downtown Los Angeles. Declining to weigh in on whether Newsom should be arrested — as President Trump and White House border czar Tom Homan have floated — Johnson (R-La.) ripped into the Golden State governor’s light-touch approach to the chaos in Los Angeles. “I’m not going to give you legal analysis on whether Gavin Newsom should be arrested, but he ought to be tarred and feathered,” Johnson told reporters during a Capitol Hill news conference....