Spencer Pratt blasts Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom as ‘alleged criminal partners’ complicit in 12 deaths from Palisades fire

Spencer Pratt made furious accusations against California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass over their handling of last year’s devastating wildfires and the state’s homelessness crisis.

In a Fox News interview Saturday, Pratt — whom Republicans and independents have coalesced around to replace Bass — claimed the two Democrats are “alleged criminal partners” in the Palisades fire that killed 12.

“Not only did they work together in their negligence in burning down 7,000 houses and 12 people alive, but they’re both complicit in laundering $24 billion to actually increase homelessness,” Pratt said in response to a question about the governor endorsing Bass.

The city’s much-criticized response to the wildfires — where even Bass admitted was “botched” — were what personally drove Pratt to run for mayor. His own home was burned down, a fact he often runs on in his campaign.

Pratt said both Newsom and Bass “should be in jail together” for their “negligence” in their fire response and were covering up for each other.

Pratt has also criticized what he alleges is wasteful spending by the city and California in trying to tackle homelessness, claiming any cited numbers and stats saying that homelessness is down were “made up.”

“Those are not real numbers,” he said. “Anybody with eyeballs in the state of California or Los Angeles knows that there’s not been a reduction in one homeless person. Actually, there’s been an increase of naked drug addict zombies in front of every kid’s playground, every kid’s school, every coffee shop.”

He promised if elected he would have “full transparency” in where every tax dollar is going in response to a report that said the city spent $418 million on homelessness in 2025 with just 10% of that going toward getting people permanently off the streets.

“Not just in this homeless industrial complex scam but in the police department, the fire department, and transportation, we need to know where all of our tax money is going,” he said.

A request for comment was not immediately returned by Bass’s campaign.

A Newsom spokesperson did not directly answer The Post’s request to respond to Pratt’s claims, simply responding with a “Who?” in reference to the candidate.

Both the governor and mayor have insisted previously that their work on homelessness is producing results. Newsom has highlighted stats that claim a 9% drop in unsheltered homeless individuals last year, while Bass promoted in March a report that showed a decrease in homeless mortality for the first time in a decade.

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