TikTok video shows Gavin Newsom inside a restaurant while not social distancing



Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom was seen inside a restaurant in Fresno, California, where restaurants are only permitted to be open if they are outside because of Newsom's own stay-at-home order.

Newsom is seen on a TikTok video and photos at the Los Amigos restaurant in Fresno. Based on Newsom's "Blueprint for a Safer Economy" restrictions, Fresno is a purple tier area, which means the area has "widespread" COVID-19 infections. Purple tier regions prohibit bars, breweries, and distilleries to be open, plus indoor dining is banned. Only restaurants and wineries may offer outdoor service.

Despite Newsom's own strict coronavirus constraints that he signed into effect, the governor was inside a restaurant. Newsom, who has preached social distancing to his constituents for months, is seen not physically distancing in the restaurant.

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The video that was originally posted to TikTok shows Newsom with comedian George Lopez.

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In a video posted by the restaurant, Lopez is seen without a face mask and not practicing social distancing, which Newsom has demanded all Californians practice since the beginning of the pandemic.

Chef Andrew Gruel, a prominent restaurateur in Los Angeles, claimed that Newsom was "dining/drinking" at the restaurant. He astutely noted that the restaurant had a table full of refreshments that commenters believe to be pitchers of water with limes or margaritas.

California is the only state where indoor dining is banned. Industry gutted. It’s an explosive topic. Newsom holds… https://t.co/L3O7aSrbV3
— Chef Andrew Gruel (@Chef Andrew Gruel)1614487940.0

Gruel called for Newsom's resignation on Twitter:

Newsom must resign ASAP. Yesterday he was inside a restaurant dining and doing a painfully cringe-worthy "bit" with George Lopez in a county that is NOT ALLOWED to have indoor dining. It is in purple tier. This is a slap in the face to every restaurant worker. Every citizen.
Newsom must resign ASAP. Yesterday he was inside a restaurant dining and doing a painfully cringe-worthy “bit” with… https://t.co/jdMeHvG7aB
— Chef Andrew Gruel (@Chef Andrew Gruel)1614481490.0

A spokesperson for Newsom's office told Fox News that the governor did not dine at the restaurant. Newsom's camp said he was there to meet with the restaurant's owners, who received a COVID-19 relief grant.

Newsom infamously sparked criticism in November after he flouted his own coronavirus rules when he was caught dining at the luxurious French Laundry in Napa. The Michelin-star restaurant reportedly received $2.4 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans from the Small Business Administration, which is allegedly 17 times more than the average California restaurant.

EXCLUSIVE: We've obtained photos of Governor Gavin Newsom at the Napa dinner party he's in hot water over. The phot… https://t.co/Py6J960zE6
— Bill Melugin (@Bill Melugin)1605677199.0

California voters who are disappointed in Newsom's leadership and hypocrisy during the coronavirus pandemic have started a petition to recall him. The petition organized by The Recall Newsom campaign purportedly has 1,825,000 signatures, more than the necessary threshold of 1,497,709 signatures.

During a speech at CPAC, former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell hinted that he may run for governor of California if Newsom is recalled.

Joe Biden seems to forget he's running against President Trump during softball interview: 'Four more years of George, uh, George ...'



Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden had some more slow-pitch softballs lobbed at him during a virtual interview Sunday night conducted by comedian George Lopez and CNN analyst Ana Navarro.

There's a lotta love in the room

The hosts are both vehement haters of President Donald Trump — and they underscored that sentiment by wearing "Biden-Harris" T-shirts. Even Navarro's dog was wearing one.

Image source: YouTube screenshot

Certainly it must have been a comforting sight to the former vice president and his wife, Jill Biden, as they sat in their home in Wilmington, Delaware.

Getting things off to a fawning start was Navarro, who asked Jill Biden, "What is it that made you fall in love with Joe Biden?"

Yup, it seemed clear Navarro had zero interest in outdoing Lesley Stahl or Savannah Guthrie.

The mood now quite jovial, next up was Lopez with a question actually related to the election: "If someone is undecided or maybe thinking about not voting, why should they vote, and why should they vote for you?"

'Four more years of George, uh, George, uh, he, uh ...'

Biden then began talking, saying voting is imperative because it's "the most consequential election in a long, long, long time. And the character of the country, in my view, is literally on the ballot. What kind of country are we gonna be?"

Then came yet another apparent case of temporary amnesia for Biden: "Four more years of George, uh, George, uh, he, uh ..."

Jill Biden did a good job of holding it together, and Joe Biden seemed to find a way to weave back to the target, adding that we're going to "find ourselves in a position where if Trump gets elected ... we're gonna be in a different world."

Here's the clip:

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Which George was in his head?

Did Biden have former President George W. Bush in mind during the awkward moment? Bush's father, former President George H.W. Bush? Or did the fact that the question came from Lopez — yet another George — cause confusion?

Commenters on the Trump War Room's tweet about the incident were full of observations:

  • "Did the sign language lady follow his words (George) or was she waiting for the senile old man to correct himself?" one asked.
  • "This dude's just barely hanging on," another noted.
  • "I honestly think he was referring to George Washington," another said.