WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Thursday (Mar 21) signed an executive order linking 'free speech' efforts at public universities to ...
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order linking"free speech" efforts at public universities to federal grants in an effort to combat what he considers a clamp down on conservative students' abilities to share their views.
Trump, who regularly decries the media as"fake news" and calls defamation laws"a sham," has threatened retaliatory action related to free speech issues where he says the rights of conservatives are under attack. A senior US administration official said schools, not the government, would attest to their compliance with the executive order.
Trump had announced his planned order earlier this month at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. The event featured activist Hayden Williams, who was punched at the University of California, Berkeley, in February while recruiting students for a conservative group.
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