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‘Go to Berkeley’: Ron DeSantis said students seeking ‘woke’ classes should study elsewhere
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Yes, violence and vandalism are right out. The ideas themselves remain, as they should.
There have been a couple different high profile incidents involving protesting (some of which escalated past normal protesting) in order to get certain speakers cancelled and disinvited from booked events.
Milo Yiannopoulos event canceled after violence erupts - Berkeley News
Safety concerns stop performance by Milo Yiannopoulos, guest of Berkeley College Republicansnews.berkeley.edu
Ben Shapiro spoke at Berkeley as protesters gathered outside
As conservative radio host Ben Shapiro spoke at the University of California Berkeley, protesters swarmed outside chanting various slogans.www.wral.com
If Berkeley doesn't want to be "unfairly labelled" as the "woke school"...
Perhaps things like "Disinviting Bill Maher, because he said something mean about Islam on HBO", and "riots with a $100k worth of damage and banned weapons being brought on campus by protestors because Milo was invited to speak", and "phoning in bomb threats to prevent Ann Coulter from speaking", and "Ben Shapiro needing to be protected by 300 cops just to get him to the venue because protestors were trying to block it" is the sort of thing they'd want to curtail a bit.
When you boil that down, it's basically like saying:
"We're not woke, we just have a large subset of people who throw temper tantrums, light stuff on fire, and phone in bomb threats when the college republican group on our campus invites people to speak who we feel triggered by"
And that "bad look" is made even worse when, for a few of those, faculty actually participated in the protesting outside the venues.
The professors should've been the first ones volunteering to go up to mic to take on Shapiro head-on during the hour long "open mic" portion of his events, not screeching out in the parking lot with some of the students.
PR is 90% of the game with regards to perception.
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Trump's history of acts of kindness and generosity
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The real Donald Trump?
www.newsweek.com
(Donald Trump) has spent two decades trying to evict the Scots who live next to his luxury golf course.
For almost two decades, a small band of Scots has resisted The Trump Organization’s efforts to turn their land into a playground for the super-rich. First he tried to buy them out, and then he tried to intimidate them—but they refused to uproot themselves for the sake of a billionaire’s bank account.
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James alleged the non-profit failed to meet as a corporate board, failed to conduct any relevant oversight regarding grants issued and also failed to implement any policy whatsoever which might have protected the charity's funds from being skimmed by the Trump clan.
"In this vacuum of oversight and diligence, Mr. Trump caused the foundation to enter repeatedly into self-dealing transactions and to coordinate unlawfully with his presidential campaign," James said in her filing with the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan.
Relatively amusingly, James also noted that Trump personally ordered his charity to spend $100,000 in order to settle legal claims over an 80-foot flagpole he had built at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Last December, the Trump Foundation agreed to dissolve under judicial supervision due to Underwood's initial lawsuit.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — A judge on Friday approved an agreement for President Donald Trump to pay $25 million to settle lawsuits over his now-defunct Trump University, ending nearly seven years of legal battles with customers who claimed they were misled by failed promises to teach success in real estate.
U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel said the agreement represents an “extraordinary amount” of money for customers to recover. Plaintiff attorneys say about 3,730 people will get at least 90 percent of their money back.
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It's not just whatever he was doing with Epstein; he's got a long history of behavior.
Remember When Trump Tried to Bulldoze a Widow’s Home to Make a Parking Lot for Limos?
Remember When Trump Tried to Bulldoze a Widow’s Home to Make a Parking Lot for Limos?
He's a bully and crony capitalist who has never been shy about using government to coerce people who get in his way.
www.newsweek.com
(Donald Trump) has spent two decades trying to evict the Scots who live next to his luxury golf course.
For almost two decades, a small band of Scots has resisted The Trump Organization’s efforts to turn their land into a playground for the super-rich. First he tried to buy them out, and then he tried to intimidate them—but they refused to uproot themselves for the sake of a billionaire’s bank account.
The Real Resistance to Trump Is in the Scottish Countryside
The former president has spent two decades trying to evict the Scots who live next to his luxury golf course. ‘The only way I intend to leave is horizontally in a box,’ one told The Free Press.
www.thefp.com
James alleged the non-profit failed to meet as a corporate board, failed to conduct any relevant oversight regarding grants issued and also failed to implement any policy whatsoever which might have protected the charity's funds from being skimmed by the Trump clan.
"In this vacuum of oversight and diligence, Mr. Trump caused the foundation to enter repeatedly into self-dealing transactions and to coordinate unlawfully with his presidential campaign," James said in her filing with the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan.
Relatively amusingly, James also noted that Trump personally ordered his charity to spend $100,000 in order to settle legal claims over an 80-foot flagpole he had built at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Last December, the Trump Foundation agreed to dissolve under judicial supervision due to Underwood's initial lawsuit.
Trump Admits Misusing Trump Foundation Funds to Settle Lawsuit | Law & Crime
President Donald Trump must personally pay $2 million in fines because he illegally used his charity to benefit his 2016 candidacy. A state judge in New York delivered the judgment on Thursday afternoon. The judicially-assessed penalty must be paid to a number of nonprofit organizations in the...
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Jury finds Trump liable for sexual abuse, awards accuser $5M
Jury finds Trump liable for sexual abuse, awards accuser $5M
A jury has found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996. Jurors awarded her $5 million in a judgment that could haunt the former president as he campaigns to regain the White House. The verdict was announced in a federal courtroom in New York City on...
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — A judge on Friday approved an agreement for President Donald Trump to pay $25 million to settle lawsuits over his now-defunct Trump University, ending nearly seven years of legal battles with customers who claimed they were misled by failed promises to teach success in real estate.
U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel said the agreement represents an “extraordinary amount” of money for customers to recover. Plaintiff attorneys say about 3,730 people will get at least 90 percent of their money back.
Trump paying $25M after judge approves Trump University deal
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A judge on Friday approved an agreement for President Donald Trump to pay $25 million to settle lawsuits over his now-defunct Trump University, ending nearly seven years of legal battles with customers who claimed they were misled by failed promises to teach success in real estate.
apnews.com
Meet the (Many) Small Business Owners Stiffed by Donald Trump
It's not just whatever he was doing with Epstein; he's got a long history of behavior.
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