The Trump administration has approved millions of dollars in disaster relief for small businesses and individuals impacted by the riots in Los Angeles even though California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) appeared to sanction or even encourage the violence.

In a press release on Tuesday, Small Business Administration chief Kelly Loeffler revealed that Newsom's government had applied for an SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) declaration to provide up to $2 million in low-interest EIDL loans "to support working capital and normal operating expenses such as payroll, rent, and utilities that could not be met due to the destruction enabled by Newsom’s failed governance."

The request was quickly granted, but the administration is not letting Newsom and Bass off the hook for their complicity in the riots, which included looting stores and setting storefronts and cars on fire.

Loeffler used the press release to make it clear just who Trump holds responsible for the reprehensible actions of immigration protesters, which resulted in $1 billion in damage.

"State-sanctioned crisis"

"Governor Newsom allowed a mob to rampage Los Angeles – standing with violent rioters, paid protestors, and criminal illegal aliens over law-abiding citizens. Despite an estimated $1 billion in damage, he refused federal relief for weeks, insisting that the riots were peaceful even as small business owners stood in the rubble," Loeffler said in the press release.

"Although the SBA has approved California’s disaster relief request and will begin delivering immediate aid to the innocent victims, Governor Newsom must take accountability for his state-sanctioned crisis – and stop playing politics with Americans’ livelihoods."

Turns out the Trump administration had to badger Newsom to take the disaster aid because he wanted people to think the riots were basically peaceful.

Although local leaders are allowing Los Angeles to burn, federal partners are ready to help American citizens rebuild – and we will do so, as soon as the Governor answers their call for help," Loeffler said on June 12 after the riots.

Second round

It's the second time this year that Calfornia has needed disaster relief from the SBA.

After the wildfires that tore through parts of the state in January and left many multi-million-dollar celebrity and other homes in ashes, Newsom requested and got $2.99 billion in aid for small businesses affected by the flames.

Newsom, of course, continued to blame the Trump administration for the riots.

"Finally, the federal government is doing the right thing to pay for the damages several small businesses have suffered from the Trump-imposed chaos campaign in Los Angeles. California businesses shouldn’t have to shoulder the burden of Trump’s authoritarian tirade," a Newsom spokesperson said on Tuesday after the aid was approved.

It's not storeowners' faults that Newsom and Bass gave tacit permission to rioters to destroy their property and livelihoods.

The Trump administration has come out on the right side of this, which leaves Democrats like Newsom looking very wrong indeed.