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Oxford professor resigns (FOR LYING) over claims top university donor supports Trump
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Gary Roselles
Aug 31, 2017, 3:36:51 AM8/31/17
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A top Oxford University politics professor resigned from his
academic post Monday after claiming one of the school's key
patrons supported Donald Trump.
Bo Rothstein was professor and chair of government and public
policy at the prestigious university's Blavatnik School of
Government, named for the Ukrainian-born Jewish billionaire
Leonard Blavatnik.
Blavatnik School ? @BlavatnikSchool
We’re very sorry that professor Bo Rothstein has resigned.
Here’s our official statement: http://po.st/NMEktI @UniofOxford
4:15 AM - Aug 29, 2017
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Blavatnik, who holds both American and British citizenship, gave
Oxford the equivalent of nearly $100 million, funding the 2010
installment of a new school of government. Blavatnik's monetary
gift was one of the largest donations in Oxford's 900-year
history.
Rothstein told The Guardian he stepped down from his university
job after American academic colleagues allegedly told him that
Blavatnik donated $1 million toward Trump’s inauguration.
Following news of Rothstein’s resignation, a spokesman for
Blavatnik said although the industrialist did give $1 million to
the inauguration committee for Trump -- a bipartisan
congressional committee charged with organizing events leading
up to the inauguration -- the donation was not in support of
Trump himself.
The spokesman told The Guardian that “neither Blavatnik nor any
of his companies ever made a donation to the Trump presidential
campaign.”
Rothstein later responded that, to him, the donation qualifies
as support of Trump.
“I’m not going to be the Blavatnik chair of government and
public policy because I’m not going to give legitimacy and
credibility to this person,” Rothstein said, adding, “I am not
fond of a political leader who says there are fine and good
people in demonstrations where there are lots of Nazi and Ku
Klux Klan people.”
Since leaving the Oxford position, Rothstein said he has
received hundreds of messages in support of his decision. “I
have not received one negative mail -- they have only been
positive,” he said.
“I’ve never had so much applause in my life,” Rothstein said.
He also said that in the interim, he’s received a job offer from
another top university in Berlin.
Oxford was widely criticized for accepting Blavatnik’s
substantial donation. In 2015, a group of academics published an
open letter imploring Oxford to “stop selling its reputation to
Vladimir Putin’s associates.”
Blavatnik was named the U.K.’s wealthiest man in 2015, with a
net worth estimated at the equivalent of $22 billion. He made
his fortune through his company Access Industries, which bought
commodity goods and businesses in Russia following the fall of
the Soviet Union. His ventures now reach into real estate, film
and music.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/30/oxford-professor-
resigns-over-claims-top-university-donor-supports-trump.html
The UK Nazi gets a job offer from the Berlin Nazis.
Fitting.
academic post Monday after claiming one of the school's key
patrons supported Donald Trump.
Bo Rothstein was professor and chair of government and public
policy at the prestigious university's Blavatnik School of
Government, named for the Ukrainian-born Jewish billionaire
Leonard Blavatnik.
Blavatnik School ? @BlavatnikSchool
We’re very sorry that professor Bo Rothstein has resigned.
Here’s our official statement: http://po.st/NMEktI @UniofOxford
4:15 AM - Aug 29, 2017
11 11 Replies 19 19 Retweets 17 17 likes
Blavatnik, who holds both American and British citizenship, gave
Oxford the equivalent of nearly $100 million, funding the 2010
installment of a new school of government. Blavatnik's monetary
gift was one of the largest donations in Oxford's 900-year
history.
Rothstein told The Guardian he stepped down from his university
job after American academic colleagues allegedly told him that
Blavatnik donated $1 million toward Trump’s inauguration.
Following news of Rothstein’s resignation, a spokesman for
Blavatnik said although the industrialist did give $1 million to
the inauguration committee for Trump -- a bipartisan
congressional committee charged with organizing events leading
up to the inauguration -- the donation was not in support of
Trump himself.
The spokesman told The Guardian that “neither Blavatnik nor any
of his companies ever made a donation to the Trump presidential
campaign.”
Rothstein later responded that, to him, the donation qualifies
as support of Trump.
“I’m not going to be the Blavatnik chair of government and
public policy because I’m not going to give legitimacy and
credibility to this person,” Rothstein said, adding, “I am not
fond of a political leader who says there are fine and good
people in demonstrations where there are lots of Nazi and Ku
Klux Klan people.”
Since leaving the Oxford position, Rothstein said he has
received hundreds of messages in support of his decision. “I
have not received one negative mail -- they have only been
positive,” he said.
“I’ve never had so much applause in my life,” Rothstein said.
He also said that in the interim, he’s received a job offer from
another top university in Berlin.
Oxford was widely criticized for accepting Blavatnik’s
substantial donation. In 2015, a group of academics published an
open letter imploring Oxford to “stop selling its reputation to
Vladimir Putin’s associates.”
Blavatnik was named the U.K.’s wealthiest man in 2015, with a
net worth estimated at the equivalent of $22 billion. He made
his fortune through his company Access Industries, which bought
commodity goods and businesses in Russia following the fall of
the Soviet Union. His ventures now reach into real estate, film
and music.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/30/oxford-professor-
resigns-over-claims-top-university-donor-supports-trump.html
The UK Nazi gets a job offer from the Berlin Nazis.
Fitting.
#BeamMeUpScotty
Aug 31, 2017, 6:25:53 AM8/31/17
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On 08/31/2017 03:33 AM, Gary Roselles wrote:
> A top Oxford University politics professor resigned from his
> academic post Monday after claiming one of the school's key
> patrons supported Donald Trump.
Probably been diddling little boys and needed to run like the wind and
> A top Oxford University politics professor resigned from his
> academic post Monday after claiming one of the school's key
> patrons supported Donald Trump.
used that as an excuse so no one would look in his computers.
--
That's Karma
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