President Donald Trump saved himself on Friday with the democratic governor of Maine during a governors’ seat in the White House, with governor Janet Mills told the Republican President: “We will see them in court” because he refused to finance federal financing through transgender athletes .
Trump told the governor that he was looking forward to it and predicted the end of her political career because she had opposed his command. Later on Friday, the US Ministry of Education announced that the Maine Ministry of Education initiated an investigation into the admission of transgender athletes.
The confrontation during the meeting came after Mills and Trump had traded barbs in the past 24 hours because he played on But -Transenden -Athlete in girls’ and women’s sports. The confrontation in the state dining room was an unusual violation of the typical polite interactions that the legislators, even from opposing parties, shared historically in the White House.
The back and forth came in the middle of the president’s remarks who welcome the governors of the nation in the White House. When he spoke about an executive order that he had signed in the case of transgender athletes at the beginning of this month, he searched mills in the room after taking them out of the Republican Governors Association a day earlier.
“Is Maine here, the governor of Maine?” He asked.
“I’m here,” she replied.
“Will you not keep it?” he asked.
“I receive state and federal laws,” replied Mills.
Trump replied: “We are the federal law.” He once again threatened the federal financing of the state and said Maine could be a democratic state, but his inhabitants largely agree to him on this topic.
“We will follow the law,” she said.
“You should do better,” warned Trump. “Otherwise you will not receive federal financing.”
“We will see them in court,” replied the governor.
“Well, we’ll see you in court. I look forward to it. That should be really easy, ”said Trump. “And enjoy your life after the governor because I don’t believe that you will be in chosen politics.”
Trump made a similar financing threat on Thursday evening when he spoke to a group of Republican governors. He said, he “heard that men still play in Maine” and that he would take the financing because of that.
“So we will not give you a federal financing. Nobody until they clean up, ”said Trump.
The Main Principals’ Association, which rules the high school sport in the state, said in the early this month that the athletes of the transgender athletes would continue to make it possible to take part in competitions. The executive director of the Association, Mike Burnham, said that the Maine Human Rights Act would follow, which concludes discrimination due to gender identity.
The office for civil rights of the US Ministry of Education announced in a letter to the Commissioner of the State Ministry of Education on Friday that it initiated an investigation, since “the male athletes continue to make it possible to take part in the Interscholastic Athletics of Girls”, which it is Violation of the law on the federal anti -discrimination law.
The U.S. Ministry of Education declaration said that state laws do not override the laws of the federal crimination laws of the federal government. If the state continues to receive federal funds from the educational department, it must follow the title IX, said Craig Trainor, deputy deputy secretary for civil rights at the educational department.
Mills said she was working with the Attorney General to defend the state in court, but predicted that Maine would not be the last state that Trump tries to aim.
“I imagine that the result of this politically directed investigation is almost predetermined” A president can force compliance with his will, regardless of the rule of law that our nation regulates. I don’t think he can. “
On Friday, the Democratic Attorney General of Mills and Maine, Aaron Frey, the night before against Trump’s comments.
Mills said the state “will not be intimidated by Trump’s threats”.
“If the president tries to unilaterally deprive the school children in Maine’s school children from federal financing.
Frey said he “defend Maine’s laws and block the president’s efforts, harass us and threaten us”.
The medal signed at the beginning of this month gives the federal authorities a wide range of latitudes to ensure that companies that receive federal financing in line with the title of the Trump government, the “sex” as Interpreted gender as the gender interpreted that someone was assigned at birth.
The federal government could punish organizations such as schools or sporting associations that do not meet, possibly by promoting funds such as grants for educational programs.
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New York price registered. Whittle reported from Scarborough, Maine. Associated Press Writer Jonathan J. Cooper in Phoenix contributed to this report.
