Bangladesh, June 9 -- US President Donald Trump has launched a scathing attack on California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, blaming the states top Democratic officials for what he called a “catastrophic” failure to quell violent demonstrations that erupted across parts of Los Angeles County over the weekend. The protests, which began on June 7 outside a Home Depot in Paramount, escalated into citywide confrontations involving federal agents, local police, and large crowds of demonstrators, many of whom waved Mexican flags and chanted anti-ICE slogans.

Trump, writing on his social media platform Truth Social, accused the demonstrators of being “paid insurrectionists,” and demanded that News...