Former President Donald Trump is lamenting the possibility that Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian protesters could be treated more leniently than the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January 2021.
Donald Trump on Tuesday lamented the possibility that Columbia University's pro-Palestinian protesters could be treated more leniently than the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Experts say comparisons to the Capitol riot, or an infamous 2017 Charlottesville rally, are strained.
Former President Donald Trump questioned whether pro-Palestinian demonstrators who seized and barricaded a campus building, vandalizing it in the process, would be treated the same way as the January 6, 2021, Capitol rioters. “Let’s see how that all works out,” he said.
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Former President Donald Trump is lamenting the possibility that Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian protesters could be treated more leniently than the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January 2021.