By The opinion
Apr 30, 2024, 2:28 PM EDT
Former President Donald Trump This Tuesday he compared the pro-Palestinian camp on the campus of Columbia University (New York) with the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021an event that claimed seven lives when thousands of Republican supporters broke into the building
Dozens of students from Columbia University in New York occupied Hamilton Hall, one of the most important buildings in the educational complex, this Tuesday, hours after the center’s management began applying suspensions to students involved in the protests.
“They took over a building, that’s a big problem. And I wonder if what will happen to (the protesting students) will be anything comparable to what happened to (the participants) on January 6because they are causing a lot of destruction, a lot of damage and a lot of people being seriously injured,” said the former president and Republican candidate for this year’s presidential elections before entering his criminal trial in New York.
Trump also noted that These concentrations are a hotbed for anti-Semitism and said that the president of the United States, Joe Biden, “has to come out and make a statement because universities are being invaded in this country.”
There has been a camp with letters on campus in Columbia for two weeks as a sign of protest and this anti-war movement has spread like an oil spill through dozens of universities across the country and some European faculties, becoming a major political problem. order.
With information from EFE.
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