Trump Makes Unbelievable Admission Nobody Saw Coming - Says He'll DO IT!
Anti-Israel demonstrations on American college campuses have been described as a “radical revolution” by former President Donald Trump, who also suggested expelling foreign students involved in such protests if he were re-elected.
“One thing I do is [with] any student that protests — I throw them out of the country. You know, there are a lot of foreign students,” Trump stated during a May 14 roundtable, as reported by the New York Post.
“They’re going to behave as soon as they hear that,” the 2024 candidate continued.
During the discussion, a donor reportedly raised concerns that a student protester could become a prominent politician in the future.
However, Trump assured the donors that he would work to halt the “radical revolution” occurring on college campuses, emphasizing that it “has to be stopped now,” according to the Post.
Karoline Leavitt from the Trump campaign accused President Biden of empowering the protesters in a statement to The Post.
“Joe Biden has sided with radical leftist Democrats like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Talib and empowered antisemitic protestors destroying our college campuses and threatening to undermine our democracy,” Leavitt said.
“President Trump will side with Jewish Americans and American citizens, period, and he will not tolerate terrorist sympathizers on our college campuses,” she added.
Additionally, Trump publicly vowed to crack down on anti-Israel demonstrators. Following the tragic Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, which resulted in nearly 1,200 Israeli deaths, Trump pledged to deport “resident aliens” involved in “pro-jihadist protest.”
“If you hate America, if you want to abolish Israel, if you sympathize with jihadists, then we don’t want you in our country, and you’re not going to be getting into our country,” Trump declared to the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas.
“I will cancel the student visas of Hamas sympathizers on college campuses and all resident aliens who join in pro-Jihadist protests,” he added. “Come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you.”
Other Republicans have proposed similar measures. For example, in October, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced a resolution to revoke the visas of foreign nationals in the U.S. who support Hamas.
Trump also informed donors at this month's New York roundtable that he would support Israel if he regained the presidency.
This development coincides with significant financial backing for Trump’s 2024 campaign from a group of billionaires aiming to narrow the funding gap with President Joe Biden.
According to Fox Business Network, Stephen Schwarzman, CEO and co-founder of Blackstone, announced on Friday his support for Trump in the 2024 election. Schwarzman had previously urged the Republican Party to consider “a new generation of leaders.”
Worth approximately $39 billion, Schwarzman said that the “dramatic rise of antisemitism has led me to focus on the consequences of upcoming elections with greater urgency” and expressed concerns shared by many Americans that “our economic, immigration, and foreign policies are taking the country in the wrong direction.”
Schwarzman’s announcement aligns with a broader effort among billionaires supporting Trump’s campaign, which is closing the financial gap with Biden’s campaign. By April, Trump’s campaign had surpassed Biden’s in monthly fundraising for the first time in the cycle, despite the Trump campaign's increasing legal costs.
The New York Times reported in April that Biden’s campaign held net cash of about $84.5 million, compared to $48 million for Trump’s. Trump’s campaign funds increased by about $3 million from March, while Biden’s remained flat.
Donations from Schwarzman and other wealthy supporters could significantly help Trump close the fundraising gap with Biden. In early April, hedge fund founder John Paulson hosted a fundraiser at his Palm Beach, Florida, home. Guests paid $814,600 each to sit at Trump’s table as a “chairman” contributor, or $250,000 to join the “host committee.”
Billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter, Rebekah Mercer, both significant Trump supporters in 2016, were co-chairs of the Paulson event, though they had mostly stayed out of his 2020 reelection campaign, according to Fox Business.
The event chair was oil magnate Harold Hamm, founder and chairman of Continental Resources, and co-chairs included casino billionaire Steve Wynn and Todd Ricketts, a TD Ameritrade board member and co-owner of the Chicago Cubs. Ricketts previously served as the finance chair of the RNC.
The April event raised over $50 million for Trump’s campaign, about twice as much as Biden raised at an event a few weeks earlier with former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton and several Hollywood celebrities.
“Trump outraised Biden by $76 million to $51 million in April, the first time in recent months that Biden couldn’t rake in more money than his Republican opponent. A recovered Trump-DeSantis relationship could also help the former president’s image among Florida voters who reelected DeSantis as governor in 2022 by nearly 20 points,” it stated.