Over the years, Trump has threatened to intercede in the state’s long-running homeless crisis, vowed to withhold federal wildfire aid as political leverage in a dispute over water rights, called on police to shoot people robbing stores and warned residents “your children are in danger” because of illegal immigration.

Once Trump began fabricating parts of their conversation later that day, Newsom alleged, it started “to disturb me on a different level that maybe he actually believed he said t