Team USA star Kaillie Humphries rips Newsom for response to alleged California fraud, raises Olympic concerns

Olympic bobsled fable Kaillie Humphries is simply a tax-paying Californian, and she is not blessed astir the effect by Gov. Gavin Newsom to caller allegations of fraud successful the state, particularly with the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics connected the horizon.

Newsom came nether occurrence Tuesday nighttime aft his property bureau posted a effect to autarkic writer Nick Shirley's probe of alleged fraud successful California. 

The station included an AI representation depicting Shirley covered successful cameras with a code bubble that said, "Hey, tin I spot your kids?" 

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Humphries told Fox News Digital her reaction, raising concerns implicit the interaction it could person connected the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. 

"As a California resident, I’m profoundly acrophobic astir the reports of alleged fiscal fraud and Governor Newsom’s apathy to it. Aside from the world that immoderate fiscal fraud is wrong, the information that this allegedly happened successful the authorities that is slated to big the 2028 Olympics is adjacent much concerning. The Olympics are a multi-billion dollar lawsuit that requires important governmental enactment to guarantee it runs correctly," Humphries said. 

"Olympic big cities astir the satellite person struggled with fiscal fraud surrounding hosting the Olympics for years. America is not immune from these problems arsenic the Salt Lake City Olympics successful 2002 was tainted with a bribery scandal. 

"Ahead of America hosting the satellite successful the LA 28 Olympics, California and its leadership, including Governor Newsom, request to code these superior allegations and guarantee that each US payer wealth spent astatine the Olympics is decently accounted for."

Newsom's bureau has provided a connection upon Fox News Digital's petition for a effect to Humphries. 

"Our bureau does not typically respond to commentary from individuals who are not straight progressive successful oregon informed astir the substance astatine hand," the connection said. "Under Governor Newsom’s leadership, California is starring the federation successful PREVENTING fraud, waste, and maltreatment — protecting billions of dollars intended for families, students, seniors, and communities," a spokesperson said, adding a nexus to a authorities website supposedly dedicated to stopping fraud."

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Humphries moved to San Diego, immigrating legally from Canada successful a process that spanned the precocious 2010s to aboriginal 2020s. She famously transitioned from Team Canada to Team USA, becoming the lone women's bobsledder to triumph golden medals for some teams, each portion enduring an aggravated ineligible migration process.

Now, she is simply a caller ma successful San Diego with her hubby Travis, navigating the state's challenges. 

Humphries revealed she is simply a Republican and arrogant protagonist of President Donald Trump successful an interrogation with Fox News Digital soon aft she won bronze astatine the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. She spoke retired successful enactment of Trump's goals of protecting women's sports, migration instrumentality enforcement, making IVF much accessible, and she adjacent defended the U.S. men's hockey squad for their relation with Trump aft backlash from the left. 

Humphries past became the archetypal U.S. Olympian to springiness the Order of Ikkos medal to a president erstwhile she gave it to Trump astatine a women's past period lawsuit astatine the White House past week.

She said she received backlash aft revealing her Trump enactment successful her archetypal interrogation with Fox News Digital. 

"I've had immoderate radical not hold with my opinions and marque it precise known," Humphries antecedently said.

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Kaillie Humphries, US Olympic bronze medalist bobsled athlete, presents the Order of Ikkos to US President Donald Trump during a Women's History Month lawsuit successful the East Room of the White House successful Washington, DC, US, connected Thursday, March 12, 2026. Every year, March is designated Women's History Month by statesmanlike proclamation.  (Al Drago/Bloomberg)

"A batch of name-calling. You get called each sanction and connection nether the prima humanly imaginable … and, astatine the extremity of the day, authorities tin beryllium precise affectional for people, and I recognize that. And everyone is entitled to their ain beliefs and what they represent.

"That's their opinion, and I don't person to similar it oregon hold with it. I privation it was different, but that's however it works." 

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