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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump Jr says college campuses teach Americans to hate their country and religion
Source: Associated Press
Donald Trump Jr says college campuses teach Americans to hate their country and religion
Associated Press
Friday 6 October 2017 07.07 BST
Donald Trump Jr has stood by his fathers declarations that both sides were to blame after Augusts racially driven violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a white supremacist killed a counter-protester.
President Donald Trumps eldest son said his father was criticised only because of an atmosphere of hatred on the left that the younger Trump blamed on liberal university campuses and traditional media.
He condemned ... the white nationalists and the left-wingers, Trump Jr said during the annual fundraising gala for Faulkner University, a private Christian university in Alabama. That should not have been controversial, but it was.
Trump Jr, who was paid as Faulkners keynote speaker, went on to cite examples of violence on the left. He mentioned Antifa, far-left-leaning militant groups that call themselves anti-fascist, for outbursts in Berkeley, California. He alluded to the former Bernie Sanders supporter who shot at Republican congressmen gathering for baseball practice, nearly killing Republican Steve Scalise of Louisiana.
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Associated Press
Friday 6 October 2017 07.07 BST
Donald Trump Jr has stood by his fathers declarations that both sides were to blame after Augusts racially driven violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a white supremacist killed a counter-protester.
President Donald Trumps eldest son said his father was criticised only because of an atmosphere of hatred on the left that the younger Trump blamed on liberal university campuses and traditional media.
He condemned ... the white nationalists and the left-wingers, Trump Jr said during the annual fundraising gala for Faulkner University, a private Christian university in Alabama. That should not have been controversial, but it was.
Trump Jr, who was paid as Faulkners keynote speaker, went on to cite examples of violence on the left. He mentioned Antifa, far-left-leaning militant groups that call themselves anti-fascist, for outbursts in Berkeley, California. He alluded to the former Bernie Sanders supporter who shot at Republican congressmen gathering for baseball practice, nearly killing Republican Steve Scalise of Louisiana.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/06/donald-trump-jr-says-college-campuses-teach-americans-to-hate-their-country-and-religion
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Donald Trump Jr says college campuses teach Americans to hate their country and religion (Original Post)
Eugene
Oct 2017
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sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)1. Don't repeat his words
Better headline
"Trump jr reveals the reasons DeVos wants to destroy public schools"
underpants
(182,829 posts)2. The problem here seems to be that this college paid money to hear Jr. speak
That boy ain't right.
logosoco
(3,208 posts)3. If i hated my country, I would not even care about what was happening to it.
I would not care that the tRump administration is destroying it and crapping on the Constitution.
And as far as the religion thing: I started figuring out what a farce that was when I was about 7 or 8, well before I went to college.
Why does anyone invite this person to speak anyway? What has he ever written or accomplished on his own? Looks like brown nosing on the part of the school.