Former President Donald Trump has expressed his stance against anti-Israel and pro-terrorist Hamas protesters during a recent donor meeting. Trump criticized anti-Israel protests on U.S. college campuses as a “radical revolution” and pledged to expel any foreign students involved if he were re-elected. He told a group of donors that he would try to put an end to the “radical revolution” occurring on college campuses, saying that it “has to be stopped now.
In a statement to The Post on Monday, Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, accused President Biden of giving the demonstrators more authority. 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.
Meanwhile, Trump told the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas back in October: “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. I will cancel the student visas of Hamas sympathizers on college campuses and all resident aliens who join in pro-Jihadist protests. Come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you.
Several Republicans have made similar proposals in the past. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) attempted to have a resolution to cancel the visas of foreign nationals residing in the United States who assist Hamas, for example, in October.
Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign is receiving a financial boost from a group of billionaires as he aims to narrow the fundraising gap with President Joe Biden. Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, CEO and co-founder of Blackstone, announced on Friday that he will support former President Trump in the 2024 race. Worth an estimated $39 billion, Schwarzman said he shares many Americans’ concerns “that our economic, immigration, and foreign policies are taking the country in the wrong direction” and added that the “dramatic rise of antisemitism has led me to focus on the consequences of upcoming elections with greater urgency.
Support from Schwarzman and other billionaire backers could significantly aid the Trump campaign in narrowing the fundraising gap with Biden. In early April, billionaire hedge fund founder John Paulson hosted a fundraiser at his Palm Beach, Florida, home. Guests were asked to contribute $814,600 per person to be a “chairman” contributor, which included sitting at Trump’s table, or $250,000 to be part of the “host committee.
