The campaign by staff and students at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University to dump visiting scholar and former Trump administration Cabinet member Richard Grenell turned ugly last month when an “assassination†threat was lobbed at him on social media.
Sources following the case said that President Trump’s former acting intelligence czar and former ambassador to Germany was targeted by two female students in now deleted tweets. One suggested killing Grenell, and another offered to help, said the sources.
Campus and county police investigated the threat and determined that neither of the students had dangerous weapons.
A CMU spokesman refused to comment on the details of the investigation but did tell us, “CMU investigates alleged incidents like this and contacts interested parties as part of such investigations.â€
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Back in August, the student and faculty outcry about Grenell reached a fever pitch because he continued to talk Trump up online. The university’s president called for an investigation. He cleared Grenell of violating any school policies but, in vowing to protect free speech, seemed to signal that anti-Grenell hate would also be allowed.
Online, Grenell has blasted the liberal and media-fed “cancel culture†that is trying to silence conservatives and even get them fired.
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