Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) may not be the boss of the Democratic Party, but he wants his congressional allies to follow his lead amid his latest battle with President Donald Trump.

A day after the California Democrat announced that he and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, were the subjects of a “baseless” investigation by the Justice Department, Axios published a copy of a talking points memo the governor’s team circulated to congressional Democrats.

Reached for comment, Newsom’s office told HuffPost the memo was a standard part of their communications.

“Our office always shares stakeholder talking points for any major announcement,” Brandon Richards, Newsom’s Deputy Director for Rapid Response, said in an email. “As the Governor has said, we have nothing to hide and are happy to provide information to reporters and others seeking context.”

In bright red at the top of the brief, the document states that Newsom is being targeted because of his plans to run for president in 2028 and that the DOJ is “searching for a crime that does NOT exist.”

Bolded bullet points accuse Trump of wielding the Justice Department as a political weapon and call the president a “coward and abuser” for also going after Newsom’s wife.

“Trump is running an open-air corruption market out of the White House and openly profiting from the presidency,” the memo states.

A Q&A section alleges the DOJ is “chasing conspiracy theories” and dismisses the department’s probe as a “lawless fishing expedition” crafted to “find ‘dirt’ on the Governor.”

While it was unclear who in Congress received the memo, several top Democrats seemed to be on the same page.

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told MS NOW he found it hard to believe the investigation had nothing to do with Newsom’s White House ambitions.

“You can’t tell me this is a pure coincidence that they decide to go after a Democratic candidate, likely candidate for president, and his family, that this was purely random,” he said. “The president makes it clear, this is deliberate.”

During a climate conference in Austria on Tuesday, former Vice President Kamala Harris told attendees she wasn’t surprised Trump’s was launching yet another apparent revenge plot.

“He told us most of what we would knew would happen, including that he would go after his political enemies using the Department of Justice,” she said.

Trump foes like former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, New York Attorney General Leticia James, Schiff and more have also found themselves in the DOJ’s crosshairs.

After Newsom announced that he and his wife had made it onto Trump’s “hit list” in a post on X, his office delivered a legal counterpunch with a letter demanding all the documents pertaining to the investigation from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

“The American people deserve to know who ordered this abuse of power and how far it goes,” Newsom wrote while posting the letter on X.

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