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Trump claims ‘paid agitators' part of Columbia pro-Palestine protests

2024-05-01

[HILL] Former President Trump made unfounded claims Tuesday that pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University contained "paid agitators" as nationwide college campus protests escalate.

Hundreds of New York Police Department officers, many with batons and in riot gear, cleared Columbia University’s protest encampments on Tuesday evening, including arresting students who occupied a campus building.

Trump claimed in a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity during the police operation that many of the protesters did not believe in what they were protesting for.

"I really think you have a lot of paid agitators, professional agitators in here too, and I see it all over," he said. "You know, when you see signs and they’re all identical. That means they’re being paid by a source."

"You know, these aren’t hand-painted signs where people would go to their basement and paint something because they really believed that. These are all signs that are identical that made by the same printer," he continued. "And you know, when you see that that means there’s somebody at the top that’s paying, or a group that’s paying, and they’re doing a great disservice to the world, but they’re doing a great disservice to our country."

There is no evidence that any protester at Columbia University or any of the nationwide pro-Palestine protests are a paid demonstrator or otherwise not an authentic protester.

Posted by:Besoeker

#8 Charge them as terrorists.

Posted by: Super Hose 2024-05-01 15:52

#7 Same paid agitators who showed up in two bus loads at the Capital on J6. There are many who saw...

Posted by: Cleared Cookies Lost Nic 2024-05-01 10:30

#6 Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
Forget it, Jake. It's THE HILL.

Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2024-05-01 09:42

#5 Material aid to a designated terror group, e.g., Hamas, is a crime per section 2339 of Title 18 U.S.C.

"(1) Unlawful conduct.—
Whoever knowingly provides material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both, and, if the death of any person results, shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life. To violate this paragraph, a person must have knowledge that the organization is a designated terrorist organization (as defined in subsection (g)(6)), that the organization has engaged or engages in terrorist activity (as defined in section 212(a)(3)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act), or that the organization has engaged or engages in terrorism (as defined in section 140(d)(2) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989)."

Of course, to enforce this would require the US DOJ to actually, uh, enforce it.

Posted by: Lord Garth 2024-05-01 07:33

#4

Trump & MOST OF AMERICA claims ‘paid agitators' part of Columbia pro-Palestine protests.

Posted by: NN2N1 2024-05-01 06:00

#3 The Real Reason Behind Campus Protests
Video. Long. Nick Freitas

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-05-01 05:15

#2 NYPD release video showing professional 'protest consultant' at Columbia University

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-05-01 05:12

#1 Former President Trump made unfounded claims Tuesday that pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University contained "paid agitators"

Viewed as "unfounded" by some possibly.

Posted by: Besoeker 2024-05-01 03:04

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