A Pennsylvania school has rescinded an honorary diploma it gave to President Donald Trump three a long time in the past within the wake of Wednesday’s riot on the US Capitol by his supporters.
Lehigh College had given Trump the sheepskin in 1988, after he spoke on the faculty’s graduation ceremony.
An official assertion didn’t specify the grounds for revoking the honour, although some college and employees had lengthy known as for Trump to be stripped of the diploma.
“In a particular session Thursday of the Govt Committee of the Lehigh College Board of Trustees, the members voted to rescind and revoke the honorary diploma granted to Donald J. Trump in 1988,” the assertion learn. “The total Board of Trustees affirmed the choice in the present day.”
Jeremy Littau, a journalism professor on the faculty, lauded the choice — however stated it ought to have come way back.
“People, it is a large deal so far as our group is worried,” he stated. “After FIVE years of stress from our college, employees, college students and alumni, the Lehigh Board of Trustees lastly did the proper factor and revoked Donald Trump’s honorary diploma.”
