After traveling to Switzerland for the World Economic Forum, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he was stopped at the American front door. The Democrat accused the Trump administration.
After traveling to Switzerland for the World Economic Forum, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he was stopped at the American front door. The Democrat accused the Trump administration of keeping him out of an event at USA House, the official American pavilion at the event in Davos, shortly after he publicly panned President Trump’s speech there on Wednesday. A Newsom team account claimed that, «under pressure from the White House and State Department», the venue reversed course and refused to let him in for a media session, CNN reports. Fortune, one of the event’s sponsors, said that Newsom had been invited to take part in a discussion, per the Hill, but that USA House had decided it «would not be able to accommodate the governor’s participation.