Writers at a website known as The College Fix archived and distributed comments made by university professors and liberal student groups over the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump.
Pro-Palestinian student group claims Trump assassination attempt ‘staged,’ distraction from Gaza war. Kentucky professor suspended after comment: ‘If you’re gonna shoot, man, don’t miss.’
Meet John James. A professor at @bellarmineU. He’s very sad that the sh**ter missed.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 14, 2024
.@bellarmineU any comment? pic.twitter.com/KOvMZsauwx
University of Virginia professor calls shooting ‘theatrics,’ attempt to gain voters’ sympathy.
That just to name a few. Here’s more.
A California chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine claimed the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump was a “staged distraction” from the war in Gaza.
University of Southern California’s Shaun Harper hypothesized that Trump’s “surviving gunfire” could result in appealing to black voters.
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Teacher John James from Bellarmine University out of Louisville, Kentucky was suspended for posting on Instagram: “If you’re gonna shoot, man, don’t miss,” and included a screenshot of an article on the assassination attempt.
According to a screenshot of the X post, Mokoko stated: “ignored him because trump & secrete [sic] service staged theatrics to win idiots’ vote.”
Carnegie Mellon University professor Uju Anya posted on X the shooting was staged and compared it to a film on the Tubi movie app.
It was staged. Like a stupid Tubi movie set in the Bronx with palm trees in the background.
— Uju Anya (@UjuAnya) July 14, 2024
Many in higher education didn’t waste time jumping on Saturday’s attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania.
Northeastern University’s James Alan Fox, said the Trump rally shooting should bring gun control to the fore as a campaign issue.
UCLA School of Law professor Peter Arenella posted on his X account that U.S. democracy “was already hanging by a thread” before the Trump assassination attempt, and now the “iconic picture of Trump raising his fist in defiance with our flag waving behind him will lead to his election and the loss of our democracy.”
Our democracy was already hanging by a thread before a mentally disturbed young man attempted to assassinate Trump. I fear that the iconic picture of Trump raising his fist in defiance with our flag waving behind him will lead to his election and the loss of our democracy.
— Professor Peter Arenella (@arenella1) July 14, 2024
While the comments made by these school employees are inexcusable, the rhetoric against Trump by those in academia isn’t new.
Jennifer Kabbany, the editor if the College Fix, has laid out 15 different times when those in college academics demonized the former president.
“The rise of Donald Trump has been compared to Jim Crow, KKK era,’ said Kabbany.
Two years ago, a Penn State University professor said that former President Donald Trump “Should’ve been Lincoln’d.”
“He’s been called a super villain, racist, bigot, and fascist”, Kabbany said. “He’s been blamed for genocide, mass murders, and the rise of racism and white supremacy. One scholar even argued Trump is worse than Hitler, Stalin and Mao.”
