On Background with Susan Crabtree
On Background with Susan Crabtree
Government Accountability Institute
Ghost Daycares and Chinese Pot Farms: The Fraud Newsom Won't Stop | Ep. 38
29 minutes Posted Sep 18, 2026 at 2:36 pm.
Newsom and Tapper's staged fly-fishing interview 2:36 Why the South Carolina trip fell flat 3:30 The plan to get anointed over Kamala Harris 6:07 Mutual assured destruction: the Newsom-Harris feud 8:38 California fraud falling like dominoes 9:30 Ghost daycares, Amy Reichardt, and the racism smear 12:21 The government inspectors who knew and stayed quiet 15:41 Chinese pot farms and a $2 billion CCP-linked empire 20:33 Newsom's veto on foreign-owned farmland 22:42 Newsom's China ties, BYD, and executive privilege
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Gavin Newsom went fly fishing with Jake Tapper for a month-in-the-making profile. Susan Crabtree and Eric Eggers break down what the staged interview was really doing, and the California fraud stories Tapper never raised.
Susan follows the money from ghost daycares in San Diego to a $2 billion Chinese cannabis operation near Mount Shasta, and lays out Newsom's pattern of CCP ties as he eyes the White House.
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