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Trump's comparison of student protests to Jan. 6 is part of effort to

downplay Capitol attack

By ALI SWENSON
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump
this week lamented the possibility
that Columbia University's pro-Pal-
estinian protesters could be treated
more leniently than the rioters who
stormed the U.S. Capitol in January
2021, marking the second time the
former president has invoked the on-
going campus protests to downplay
past examples of right-wing violence.
Speaking Tuesday in the hallway out-
side a Manhattan courtroom where
his criminal hush money trial is taking
place, Trump questioned whether
student demonstrators who had
seized and barricaded a campus
building, some of them vandalizing
it in the process, would be treated
the same way as his supporters who
attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6 to
stop certification of the presidential
results.
"I think I can give you the answer
right now," he said. "And that's why
people have lost faith in our court Pro Palestinian students lock arms, sing and chant as they braced for New York Police Department officers to raid campus
system." after Columbia University President Minouche Shafik called on the NYPD to dismantle encampments and remove individuals
from Hamilton Hall, Tuesday, April 30, 2024 in New York.
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