After it turned clear Republican President-elect Donald Trump can be returning to the White Home, California Gov. Gavin Newsom referred to as an emergency particular session to counter the incoming administration’s efforts.
However Gavin, a Democrat, didn’t reveal plans for the state to secede, as current social media posts declare.
“REPORT: Governor Gavin Newsome is contemplating plans to secede from the union with a purpose to stop Trump from deporting unlawful aliens and implementing voter ID legal guidelines,” a Nov. 9 X publish mentioned, misspelling Newsom’s title.
An identical Nov. 10 Threads publish mentioned, “Rumor: Governor Gavin contemplating plans to secede from the union with a purpose to stop Trump from deporting unlawful aliens and implementing voter ID legal guidelines.”
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We discovered no proof, comparable to credible information reporting, press releases or public statements from Newsom or individuals who work with him, to help this declare.
Right here’s what Newsom has mentioned.
In a Nov. 7 X publish, Newsom wrote: “I simply referred to as an emergency session to assist bolster our authorized sources and defend our state in opposition to any illegal actions by the incoming Trump administration. Whether or not it’s our basic civil rights, reproductive freedom, or local weather motion — we refuse to show again the clock and permit our values and legal guidelines to be attacked.”
Newsom linked to a Nov. 7 New York Occasions story about governors in Democratic states beginning to plan to battle Trump insurance policies. The article didn’t focus on secession.
In a proclamation Newsom issued Nov. 7 convening the session, he listed potential Trump insurance policies that might have “important and speedy” penalties for California, together with “repealing Deferred Motion for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and reinstituting immigration insurance policies that result in household separations.”
He didn’t point out secession.
In a Nov. 9 X publish, he mentioned in a video: “I revere this nation. I revere the presidency. And I need our president to succeed. And our job — my job — is to not get up each single day and get a crowbar and attempt to put it within the spokes of the wheel of the Trump administration. And so in that spirit, of an open hand, not a closed fist, that’s how we wish to proceed.”
He went on to say that he’s additionally not naive, however pragmatic, “and we are going to stand agency.”
“If our American values and freedoms are attacked, we won’t stand idly by,” the X publish mentioned.
We fee the declare that Newsom “is contemplating plans to secede from the union” False.
