Rutgers University silent after professor's comments after Trump assassination attempt: 'Let's hope today's events inspire others'
Rutgers University is silent after Campus Reform reported on a professor's comments after the attempted assassination against former President Donald Trump.
Rutgers University is silent after Campus Reform reported on a professor’s comments after the attempted assassination against former President Donald Trump.
A source provided Campus Reform with screenshots of the Facebook posts, which were made by Rutgers University Writing Program Assistant Teaching Professor Tracy Budd in the hours after someone tried to assassinate Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
”Let’s hope today’s events inspire others,” Budd said in one post.
”They shot his wig. Sad,” Budd wrote in another.
Campus Reform has reached out to Rutgers University for comment several times regarding Budd’s posts, but hasn’t received a response.
Budd’s Facebook is set to private, but her cover picture contains a poster at a protest that read: “Capitalism will kill us all. Gender is fake. Eat garbage. Be free.”
Budd is also the editor of Dialogues@RU, an undergraduate research journal, “which teaches students the crucial skills of critical reading and thinking, scholarly research, synthesis, and analytic writing across the disciplines.”
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Budd commented on a Facebook post in April and stated she has worked at the Rutgers University Writing Program for 22 years.
Budd isn’t the only professor to make similar comments after the assassination attempt.
Uju Anya, an associate professor of second language acquisition at Carnegie Mellon University, suggested the assassination attempt was staged.
“People dying doesn’t make the attack any less staged. Someone who thought the attack was real could’ve killed others trying to prevent harm. Also, someone could’ve shot the shooter to hide the plot,” associate professor of second language acquisition, Uju Anya, tweeted.
