Rep. Byron Donalds On Claudine Gay’s Resignation: ‘She Finally Had To Pay The Personal Responsibility For Her Actions’
Florida Republican Congressman Byron Donalds joins Fox Across America With Jimmy Failla to share his reaction to Harvard University president Claudine Gay announcing Tuesday afternoon that she is stepping down from her position.
“Listen, as American citizens, we’re all free to say whatever we want. The government can’t cause you to stop speaking. I mean, they shouldn’t. I mean, this Biden administration, they spy on everybody and they’re cutting down people’s information left and right. But the government doesn’t have the authority or the ability to suppress your speech. But we operate in the real world. If you say something and your employer or your close network is not feeling it, you have to pay the personal responsibility of that. That’s just the way it is. That’s always been the way it’s been. That part’s not changing, I think, for her is that what she was saying was just so outside the quote unquote mainstream that even though they were trying to put their DEI equity lens on it and trying to have a moral relativistic view of what was happening in the Middle East, most people aren’t buying it. They don’t want to tolerate it. They’re not being a part of that. And I think that you’re starting to get back to this place in America where people are making moral judgments about what is acceptable and what is not, what is tolerated, and what is just completely beyond the pale. I think to try to say that, you know, Palestinians or Palestinian students or Palestinian sympathizers, to try to put a moral equivalency between Hamas and the state of Israel, I mean, that’s just a joke. It’s not even close.”
Rep. Donalds also talks about how even Democratic leaders like New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson are sounding the alarm on the humanitarian crisis happening at the U.S. Southern border. Listen to the podcast to hear what else he had to say!
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