Former President Donald Trump told a roomful of donors that he has plans to expel student demonstrators from the United States, insiders at the meeting told the Washington Post.
Talking to a roomful of wealthy supporters — that he joked contained “98 percent of my Jewish friends” — he promised to deport anybody taking part in what he called a “radical revolution.”
The promise would be a fundamental disregard for the right to freedom of speech.
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“One thing I do is, any student that protests, I throw them out of the country,” he told the group at the meeting on May 14, according to the Post.
“You know, there are a lot of foreign students. As soon as they hear that, they’re going to behave,”
He also praised the NYPD’s crackdown onColumbia University protesters, and urged police forces elsewhere to take similar action.
“Well, if you get me elected, and you should really be doing this, if you get me reelected, we’re going to set that movement back 25 or 30 years,” he said, according to the Post’s insiders.
“The private New York meeting offers new insight into his current thinking,” the Post reported.
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“Speaking to wealthy donors behind closed doors, Trump said that he supports Israel’s right to continue “its war on terror” and boasted of his White House policies toward Israel.
“The former president didn’t mention Netanyahu, whom he resents for acknowledging Joe Biden’s victory in 2020 and hasn’t spoken to in years.”
Trump also told donors he supported Israel’s right to attack Gaza.
“But I’m one of the only people that says that now. And a lot of people don’t even know what October 7th is,” he said.
Trump has stated he wants to deport "anti-American" protesters at rally speeches.