NEW: CNN Turns On Gavin Newsom, Exposes His Recent Flip-Flop

On the first episode of his podcast, California Gov. Gavin Newsom derided fellow Democrats for spending the 2024 election defending DEI, transgender athletes, and taxpayer-funded transition surgeries for felons.

Turns out, one of CNN’s top investigators was listening.

Andrew Kaczynski produced a “K-FILE” report on Thursday looking back on all the times Gavin, often on video, defended the same policies he’s now ridiculing.

In town halls and stump speeches, former Vice President Kamala Harris and a slew of would-be aspirants for Congress and the White House used the term “Latinx” to speak about the gender-neutral diaspora of Hispanic heritage in the U.S.

Newson was among them, even as he now claims to reject a term that’s grown increasingly unpopular with Hispanic voters.

On the first episode of “This is Gavin Newsom,” the governor complains Democrats have an “out-of-touch fixation” with the term Latinx.

“Not one person ever in my office has ever used the word Latinx,” he proclaimed. “Where did that even – I just didn’t even know where it came from.”

But video of Newsom shows him repeatedly using the term in press conferences and social media posts during the pandemic.

“I hope we can really paint a picture in terms of our consciousness of how impactful this has been on the Latinx community,” he said during a 2020 public appearance about the Covid-19 outbreak. He promised $52 million in state funds to help the “Latinx community” connect with medical services.

Just two years ago, he ripped Republicans for being fixated on “banning the word ‘Latinx’” rather than addressing gun control.

A 2024 poll by Pew Research found just 4% of Hispanics use the term to refer to themselves, while 75% say the term should never be used.

Over a 20-year electoral career, Newsom has also advocated and signed into law measures to expand prisoners’ access to gender transition surgeries, according to CNN.

Both positions were disavowed by the Democrat on “This is Gavin Newsom,” a show he launched in the wake of the 2024 election which has featured Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon and is expected to feature other conservative luminaries in the coming months.

In 2014, Newsom, then lieutenant governor, “celebrated” the passage of a state law allowing transgender students to compete in the gender category they identify with, according to Kaczynski. The Democrat’s follow-up act came in 2020 when he legalized prisoners’ ability to select housing aligned with their gender identity rather than their sex assigned at birth.

California’s Medicaid system, under a 2021 expansion by Newsom, began paying for gender transition surgeries for inmates who acknowledged their need for gender-transition care.

One year later, he praised the Democratic governor of Utah for vetoing a law that would have banned transgender athletes from playing on teams unaligned with their biological sex.

“Your governor said it right when he said, ‘Never has so much fear and anger been focused on so few people,’” Newsom said in 2022.

During his podcast episode with Kirk, Newsom called the transgender controversy a “90/10 issue” and said Harris exposed herself to criticism when she signed a 2019 pledge with the ACLU to advocate for taxpayer-funded gender reassignment surgeries for felons. The Trump campaign released a devastating ad with the tagline “Harris is for They/Them. Trump is for you.”

“‘Trump’s for you, she’s for they/them,’” Newsom said, paraphrasing the message. “Devastating. And she didn’t even react to it, which was more devastating … people that are incarcerated and illegal and illegal incarcerated individuals getting taxpayer-funded gender reassignment surgery. That is a 90/10 not an 80/20.”

“And then you had the video, that was a validator. Brutal,” he continued.

A spokesman for the governor declined to address the disparities between his podcast statements and past positions but defended his efforts to expand protections for transgender youth and adults.