“Wore a Wire To Infiltrate” - Newsom Had an FBI Mole Probing Corruption

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
FBI infiltrated Gavin Newsom's inner circle by convincing Governor's ally to wear a wire.
This is a New York Post story. The FBI had a mole inside Gavin Newsom's political orbit before the agency's corruption probe expanded into the governor and his wife. The Post has learned Democrat insider Alexis Podesta, 45, secretly recorded conversations during the criminal probe into Newsom's then-Chief of Staff Dana Williamson, 53, pleaded guilty to federal fraud and tax charges in May. According to Williamson's attorney, the revelation she was wearing a wire as far back as June 2024, damn, this is like Joe Postone, Donnie Barrasco type of stuff, explains why a swat of Sacramento political insiders and lobbyists were stunned to receive FBI letters last fall, informing them that their phone calls have been intercepted during the investigation despite many have little or no connection to Williamson. Alexis wore a wire and Dana did not, said McGregor Scott, Williamson's lawyer and a former US attorney for Eastern District of California, which is now investigating the Newsom's. The disclosure comes as Newsom announced last month that he and his wife, whose nonprofit had been burning through money in recent years, as well as members of the governor's inner circle, are under federal investigation. Within hours of that announcement, Newsom blasted out an email to raise money for Political Action Committee. Tom, what's going on over here?

**Tom** (1:21)
Well, I'll tell you what's going on over here.
Williamson, we know what happened there. Dana Wilson pleads guilty, has the situation come up. However, now we find out that there was a wire on this.
So we're in a wire and they are now investigating the Newsom specifically. The only reason they're investigating the Newsom's is because something came up on the wire. And so they got Williamson and Williamson, the wire must have been very compelling because he pled before plea. I looked it up. You know what pleading before plea is?
Is where your lawyer basically tells the government, says, look, we're going to plead guilty on this. We want to figure out what are we going to do here on sentencing. You go straight to sentencing. You assume that the government's going to get you on one felony or two felony. And so you're suddenly now worried about sentencing, not how many or what charges. Like if it's one felony or three felonies. Adam, you know how this works. You hear people talk about it. He will serve those concurrently.
So even though you've done three things, your three things should be five years each, but you're only going to serve the five years once. And the six weeks, eight weeks, two months that they had you in temporary jail, waiting trial, they credit that as time served. So this is what's happened to Dana Williamson. And so now check this out. It's the Eastern District of California. The closer you get to the Eastern District, the more moderated you get in California because you're going East. And so they're investigating Newsom. He said nothing about it. He hasn't come out. You see Gavin Newsom come out talking about these guys. I don't know what they're talking about. You know, this president, he's absolute joke. He's despicable. He's horrible.

**Adam** (3:04)
You know, when you're doing a Trump-Newsom combo.

**Pat** (3:07)
No, he does try.

**Tom** (3:08)
No, but it's Gavin Newsom. You don't see Gavin Newsom sitting out there. I don't think we know what's going on here. I think we do know we got this.
Newsom is not saying that. Newsom is not out there saying things, screwing around with the DOJ.
I think there's something big coming because now they've said, we've got Williamson dead to rights, going to sentence. Now we're also investigating the Newsom's. And there's two things there. One, what if anything did they have to do with the Williamson crimes? And now they're investigating specifically the leak, the DOJ leak when a leak statement is their nonprofit. And remember, we know about the nonprofit. We know about the diaper math and we know about a few things. So, Pat, it appears that there's some very real things going on. Will it amount to anything? Will Aunt Nancy Pelosi step in? Tune in tomorrow.

**Pat** (3:59)
And by the way, Tom, great fricking take. And just throwing this out there, the FBI doesn't put a wire on someone because of a rumor. A judge has to sign off on it. So that means they have fricking all the evidence that they needed for a judge to sign off and go go in depth. This isn't just a rogue cast trial.

**Tom** (4:16)
Your honor, we believe this guy is dirty. We want a wire on this person. And we want, by the way, there was more than just the wire.