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Ever since the mob attack on the Capitol Hill happened, President Donald Trump’s world has come crashing down, at least politically. Social media giant Twitter has permanently banned the commander-in-chief fearing he could pose more risk by inciting violence and now the prestigious Lehigh University has revoked the honorary degree it had given to Trump way back in the 1980s. Wagner College, a private school in Staten Island borough of New York, also voted to rescind the degree awarded to the tycoon-politician in 2004 after Lehigh’s decision.
Lehigh, a premier research institution in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, awarded Trump with the degree in 1988 and had earlier disagreed with calls by the students and faculty to take the degree back, according to the university newspaper The Brown and White. A committee of Lehigh’s board of trustees voted on Thursday, January 7, to strip the degree, according to a statement issued by the school. The decision
Updated on January 8, 2021 at 4:57 pm
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Lehigh University on Friday rescinded and revoked the honorary degree it issued to President Donald Trump as more groups and people try to distance themselves from the president after a mob of his supporters raided the U.S. Capitol.
The decision to strip Trump of the degree, issued to him in 1988, was made by the university’s board of trustees and followed a message from school president John Simon the day after the Capitol raid, in which he called the events “a violent assault on the foundations of our democracy the abiding respect for the will of the people exercised in a free election and the peaceful transfer of power.”