🚨BREAKING via @DailyBeast — Text messages and testimony under OATH from DHS agents confirm last year’s raid of @CAGovernor Gavin Newsom’s press conference on Prop 50 was “political” and “a stunt” to TARGET the Governor. READ MORE: "When a phalanx of Border Patrol agents showed up outside a news conference held by leading California Democrats, including Newsom, a Homeland Security Investigations agent texted a colleague that the operation was “political” and “a stunt.” "A Homeland Security spokesperson claimed at the time agents were “focused on enforcing the law, not on [Newsom].” But the agent saw it differently, describing the operation as Border Patrol having “essentially raided the Newsom press conferences.” “We got pulled off the [Home Depot] and car wash to run this stunt,” the agent wrote. “We’re told to assist with targeted enforcement... That is not target enforcement. That was just a political agenda. Hopefully I can get replaced soon.” "In his deposition, the male agent said operations grew progressively less targeted over time, culminating in the news conference operation, which he said had no targets at all.” “They marched to a democratic governor’s press conference. It seemed to be purely political,” he testified. “It did not seem like there was a good operational basis to be doing that.”