Trump Claims ‘Paid Agitators’ Involved in Columbia University Protests

Former President Donald Trump has claimed that “paid agitators” were involved in the recent protests in support of Palestinians at Columbia University in New York City.

President Trump made the comments in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Tuesday shortly after law enforcement officials were called in to disperse demonstrators who had been camping on the school’s lawn.

Hundreds of New York Police Department (NYPD) officers also removed and arrested students who had been barricading themselves in the Hamilton Hall campus building since the early hours of Tuesday morning.

“I really think you have a lot of paid agitators, professional agitators in here too, and I see it all over,” the presumptive GOP presidential nominee said. “You know, when you see signs and they’re all identical. That means they’re being paid by a source.”

There is no evidence to suggest that paid demonstrators were among the students protesting at Columbia University.

However, President Trump pointed to the hand-painted signs he said were being carried by some of the protesters on the school’s campus in recent weeks as reasoning for his belief that paid actors may have been involved in the demonstrations.

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