Donald Trump suggested on Truth Social that the college protests were somehow orchestrated to distract from the immigration issue.
Former President Donald Trump was criticized after baselessly suggesting that nationwide college protests against Israel’s deadly campaign in Palestine were somehow orchestrated to distract from the migrant crisis and President Joe Biden’s stance on immigration.
Trump suggested that the “Radical Left” has used the protests as cover, repeating Fox News talking points that the protests are “paid agitators” distracting from the ongoing migrant crisis.
His remarks came amid a wave of nationwide student protests against the war and ensuing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where at least 34,000 Palestinians and dozens of journalists and aid workers have been killed since the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) stormed the Gaza Strip in response the October 7 terror attack by Hamas, which resulted in 1,200 deaths.
Trump wrote:
“Do you think that the Radical Left Lunatics that are causing all of the CHAOS at our Colleges and Universities are doing so in order to take the FOCUS away from our Southern Border, where millions of people, many from prisons and mental institutions, are pouring into our Country? Just askin’…???”
