Newsom meets with Trump to move past the ‘noise’ of the election

WASHINGTON — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s official reason for visiting Washington this week was to shore up federal disaster aid in response to the Los Angeles County wildfires.

But the Democratic governor of California also had another objective: To continue to repair his rocky relationship with the commander-in-chief.

“There’s a familiarity, and there was a relationship that was born of a…