California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday pointed out one glaring inconsistency in President Donald Trump’s strenuous denial of a Wall Street Journal report that alleged he once sent a lewd birthday note to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, his onetime close friend.

Fox News Jesse Watters tried to clear up his earlier claim that Gavin Newsom was lying in a denial of a phone call with Donald Trump last month, but the California governor indicated that he would still proceed with his defamation lawsuit against the network.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has hit out at Donald Trump as he raged about the president calling him 'Newscum,' branding him a 'bully' who is 'weakness masquerading as strength'

"Pam Bondi will reopen Alcatraz the same day Trump lets her release the Epstein files. So, never," Izzy Gardon, Newsom's director of communications, told SFGATE. The high-profile visit comes two months after President Donald Trump floated the idea of reopening the long-shuttered penitentiary as a maximum-security prison.

The controversy over President Donald Trump’s handling of records from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation entered a new dimension Thursday as his administration struggles to make good on its promises t