Trump, at a rally in Waukesha, #Wisconsin, called for tougher action against campus protests & again suggested some of the protesters were paid actors. He called on college presidents to “remove the encampments immediately, vanquish the locals & take back our campuses for all of the normal students.”
The #Oct7 attack on south #Israel by #Hamas militants from #Gaza & the ensuing IDF offensive on the #Palestinian enclave have unleashed the biggest outpouring of US student activism since anti-racism protests in 2020.
"Your towns & villages will now be accepting people from Gaza & various other places," #Trump said, referring to media reports of plans by the admin of #POTUS Joe #Biden …to accept some Gaza #refugees.…
For now, #Biden is taking a hands-off posture toward the unrest & has no plans to step up his involvement in escalating clashes between #police & #protesters, WH & campaign advisers said, even as #Trump looks to capitalize on the issue.
Speaking at a campaign event in #Wisconsin on Wed, #Trump derided the #protesters as “raging lunatics & Hamas sympathizers," & called on #Biden to “speak out” — accusing him of being “definitely against #Israel.”
Trump also took aim at #Columbia’s president, Minouche Shafik….
“The person that heads it up — a woman — she waited so long. She was so weak. She was so afraid. She was so bad.”
A #Biden adviser said: "Donald #Trump has repeatedly fanned the flames & encouraged #CivilInrest as a political strategy, & it has repeatedly failed to be effective."
The campus #protests pose a dilemma for Biden as the pace of the general election campaign quickens. Trump’s stance is simple enough for a bumper sticker: “People have to respect #law & order in this country,” he wrote in a post on Tues.
unless they’re his supporters aiding his [#coup, beating police, & looking to hang his VP]
Like the #protesters, Biden believes that #Israel has inflicted too much carnage in #Gaza. Unlike some of them, he defends Israel’s sovereignty & recoils at the notion of Jews losing a homeland.
#POTUS#Biden is set to give a speech on May 7 at a ceremony commemorating the Holocaust.
#DouglasEmhoff, husband of VP #KamalaHarris, said at an event in New York on Wednesday that, "We’re in favor of the right to #protest. But when that crosses into #violence — when that crosse into calls for genocide, calls for Jews to be murdered, that’s completely unacceptable & must be stopped.”
"[#Biden] said he ran because of #Charlottesville.… Well, if the people that know Charlottesville, when you extend that statement, it’s a big hoax. Charlottesville is peanuts compared to what you’re looking at now."
He also, again, described 2017’s deadly neo-#Nazi rally in #Charlottesville, Virginia as “peanuts” compared to pro-#Palestinian student protests across the country
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