Gavin Newsom Threatens to Sue Trump Admin Over $1 Billion Fine to UCLA
“He has threatened us through extortion with a billion-dollar fine unless we do his bidding.”
You knew this was going to happen, right? Newsom could very well lose this fight.
The College Fix reports:
Gov. Newsom threatens to sue Trump admin over $1 billion fine to UCLA
The Department of Justice’s proposed $1 billion fine to the University of California at Los Angeles over alleged antisemitism was met with fighting words by the state’s Democrat governor.
Meanwhile, a federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to restore grant funding to UCLA.
Gov. Gavin Newsom threatened to sue the Trump administration Friday, describing the fine as “extortion,” KQED reports.
“He has threatened us through extortion with a billion-dollar fine unless we do his bidding. So as long as I am governor, I will stand tall and push back against that,” Newsom said.
A day earlier, the governor also suggested he may resign rather than watch UCLA comply with the Trump administration’s demands, as other universities have done.
“We’re not Brown, we’re not Columbia, and I’m not going to be governor if we act like that. Period. Full stop. I will fight like hell to make sure that doesn’t happen,” Newsom told reporters at a news conference, according to Breitbart.
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump’s administration suspended more than $300 million in research grants to UCLA, citing alleged antisemitism and civil rights violations as the reasons, The College Fix reported.
On Tuesday, however, U.S. District Judge Rita Lin ordered the National Science Foundation to restore the grants to UCLA, saying the Trump administration “had misleadingly framed its latest attempt to cancel the grants as suspensions,” the New York Times reports.
Lin also wrote that the $324 million in cuts “appeared designed more to suspend research the Trump administration has associated with liberal causes than to sincerely address concerns about racism or antisemitism,” according to the report.
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So a fine for refusing to obey the law is now extortion?
I guess Californians have no need to pay traffic fines or parking tickets any more.
Those are just the state extorting citizens to get them to do what the state wants right?
good analogy
Ho Hum
Another day, another hysterical outburst so Gov Hair Gel can stay in the news. Notice that Gruesome threatened to resign over this. It’s a trial balloon. In the not too distant future, Hair Gel will be so outraged at something that he will resign saying Trump is forcing him to run for President to stop the facists
“He has threatened us”
On your knees, greasy peasant, and bend your neck to the axe of justice.