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Why Were Impeaching Our Student Body President Over Trump Jr.
The presidents son spoke at the University of Florida for a $50,000 fee. We dug deeper.
On Oct. 10, Donald Trump Jr. and the former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle gave a speech at the University of Florida for $50,000 at the invitation of our student body president, Michael Murphy. Students protested, and normally that would have been the end of the story.
Instead, last week, a group of other student body senators and I initiated impeachment proceedings against Mr. Murphy over what we feel is a gross abuse of his power. In the resulting days, our campus drama has become national news, and Mr. Murphy has become a conservative martyr.
For many of his supporters, this is simply another story of campus leftists gone berserk and threatening free speech. In fact, its a much more complicated story, one that throws into question the use of public funds for partisan ends.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/21/opinion/donald-trump-jr-university-of-florida.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
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(22,166 posts)PatSeg
(47,586 posts)No speaker is worth $50,000 for one appearance. I'm sure there are many way that that money could have been used more constructively. Just throwing it out a window might serve a better purpose, as more deserving souls might find and use it.
Retrograde
(10,156 posts)$50K is just for the speech. Often invited speakers get mileage, meals, and lodging - and being a Trump, Junior probably knows how to pad those expenses. Not to mention the US taxpayers are picking up the tab for his Secret Service guys.