After Ordering The Federal Government to Review Its Grants And Federal Contracts With Columbia University, President Donald Trump Has Threatenened to Revoke Federal Funding for Any “College, School, OR University That Allaws Illegal Protests,” and to deport or Imprison Participants in Pro-Gaza Demonstractions.
In a Truth Social Post on Tuesday, The President Wrote: “All Federal Funding Will Stop for Any College, School, Orit University that Allaws Illegal Protests. Agitators will be imprisemed/or permaently sent back to the country from which they have. American Students will be permanently explined or, depending on the crime, arrested. No masks! ”
The Trump Administration On Mondoy Orthoded Several Federal Agencies to Review Their Financial Dealings With Columbia University, and Consider Cutting Off Over $ 50 Million in Contracts and Grants With The School. The University Was Singled Out by Republics Last Year Over Pro-Gaza Student Protests, Which Led to the Establishment of a Large Encampment at the school and the occupation of a campus building.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., One of the Administrative Tasked With Reviewing The School's Grant, Wrote On X That “Anti-Semitix-Like Racism-Is a Spiritual and Moral Malady That Sickens Societies and Kills People With Lithalities Comparable to History's Most Deadly Plagues, adding that “Making America Healthy Means Building Communities of Trust and Mutual Respect, Based on speech Freedom and Open Debate.”
Kennedy Linked to an hHS statement noting that it is teaming up with the General Services Administration and the Department of Education to conduct A Review “In Light of Ongoing Investigations for Potential Violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.”
The Encampment at Columbia Sparked a Nationwide Wave of Student Protests in Opposition to Israel's Assault on Gaza. Columbia Administrors Allewed the Nypd To Enter the Campus – Breaking with Decades of Precedent – To Aggressivevely Shut Down The Protest and Arrest Students. Republicans Accuged Student Protests of Being Hamas Sympathizers, Described the Protests as Inherntly Anti -Semitic, and Demanded the Biden Administration Crack Down on the Protests. AT Several Schools, Law Enforcement Officials Brutalized Protesters or Stood by AS Vigilantes Attracked Students.
Despite Most Participants Being American Citizens, The Trump Administration Has – As is their default – Made Hay About Punishing or Deporting Any Foreigners Who Participated. In July, The Republican National Convention Adopted a Party Platform That Included A Promised To “Deport Pro-Hamas Radicals and Make Our College Campuses Safe and Patriotic Again.”
TRUMP AND HIS Administration Love to Play Chicken With Constitutional Law, But Few Things in the Founding Documents Are Clearer Than The Right To Protest Against The Government. It Should GO With Withut Saying That Lauding The Principles of Free Speech and Open Debate While Holding Federal Funds Hostage and Threatening to Imprison Protesters is a deeply disturbing contradiction.
