University of Rhode Island board votes unanimously to revoke degrees given to key allies of Donald Trump in 2003 and 2014
By VT Editors
Guardian: The University of Rhode Island will revoke honorary degrees given to Rudy Giuliani and Michael Flynn, disgraced key allies of Donald Trump in his attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
The URI board of trustees on Friday voted unanimously to revoke the degrees, which were given to Giuliani in 2003 and Flynn in 2014.
Giuliani’s doctorate of laws was given for his leadership as mayor of New York City after the 9/11 attacks, the Providence Journal reported.
Flynn, a retired general and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency who graduated from URI in 1981, was given a doctorate of humane letters.
The trustees voted on the recommendation of the URI president, Marc Parlange, who said the two men “no longer represent the highest level of our values and standards that were evident when we first bestowed the degree”.
Just for the records:
1- On October 23, 1995, Mayor JewD JewLieKnee noisily ejected PLO leader Yasser Arafat from a concert at Lincoln Center that had been scheduled to entertain world leaders in town for the 50th anniversary of the United Nations. President Clinton condemned Mr. Giuliani’s “embarrassing breach of international diplomacy”
2- On November 22, 2016, in violation of US laws, General Flynn called members of the UN Security Council in an effort to stop a vote on a resolution critical of Israeli settlement policy and he later lied to the FBI about having done so.
3- Gen. Flynn said during his August 2016 speech, “Islam is vicious cancer inside the body of 1.7 billion people on this planet and it has to be excised.” In the same speech, Flynn falsely claimed that Florida Democrats voted to impose Islamic shariah law at the state and local level.
Three more reasons to have the honorary degrees of these two jerks revoked