Rutgers professor under fire for online posts lamenting failed Trump assassination

[rangerrebew]

Rutgers professor under fire for online posts lamenting failed Trump assassination
By Social Links forChris Harris
Published July 27, 2024, 10:09 a.m. ET
 
A Rutgers University professor who “hoped” the failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump “inspired others” in since-deleted social media posts is now the subject of an internal review, The Post learned.

Tracy Budd took to Facebook hours after 20-year-old gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks took aim at Trump during a rally in Butler, Pa., miraculously only grazing his ear.

“Let’s hope today’s events inspire others,” the non-tenured Budd, whose LinkedIn indicates she first started working for her alma matter in 2001, wrote in a July 13 post.
 
This week, Tracy Budd deleted all of her social media accounts.
 
A second post soon followed.

“They shot his wig,” Budd, a former reporter for the Jersey Journal who makes over $72,000 at Rutgers, wrote, followed by the word, “Sad.”

https://nypost.com/2024/07/27/us-news/calls-for-rutgers-professors-firing-follow-trump-shooting-posts/

[rangerrebew]

Through all of undergrad (I graduated in 1971) and grad (after 4 years in the Navy) schools, I had no idea which way my professors leaned politically.  That was because they did what they were paid to do, teach a subject area without trying to indoctrinate young minds with their political views.  Today, it seems, they present political views and teach a subject if they have time.

[catfish1957]

Through all of undergrad (I graduated in 1971) and grad (after 4 years in the Navy) schools, I had no idea which way my professors leaned politically.  That was because they did what they were paid to do, teach a subject area without trying to indoctrinate young minds with their political views.  Today, it seems, they present political views and teach a subject if they have time.

When in college taking Poltical Science (1976) , even with the subject matter, I had no idea where the Professor stood ideologically.  That was the absolute norm back then. 

[Wingnut]

When in college taking Pollical Science (1976) , even with the subject matter, I had no idea where the Professor stood ideologically.  That was the absolute norm back then.

I got out in 78 and I only knew the ideology of one Prof.  My Poly sci Prof.  The guy was a card carrying Commie Democrat who offered extra credit for volunteering to canvass for Incumbent (IL) Governor Dan Walker and later for Jimmah the Peanut.  But hey, an "A" is an "A"