‘They lie, and people die. That’s exactly what they do,’ Uju Anya suggests
The assassination attempt on President Donald Trump “was staged,” according to a Carnegie Mellon University professor.
“It was staged,” Professor Uju Anya wrote Saturday evening, soon after the shooting. “Like a stupid Tubi movie set in the Bronx with palm trees in the background.”
“They lie, and people die. That’s exactly what they do,” Anya wrote shortly after on X (formerly Twitter). “That’s the record. Whatever ‘attack’ on him they set up to stoke his followers’ fears and sentiments threat and persecution has now cost lives.”
The post is still up as of Wednesday morning. “And people died behind this farce. Actual people’s lives gone for them to stage this stupid show,” Anya also wrote, as reported by Campus Reform. Reporter Emma Arns also writes for The College Fix.
“People dying doesn’t make the attack any less staged. Someone who thought the attack was real could’ve killed others trying to prevent harm,” the professor also wrote. “Also, someone could’ve shot the shooter to hide the plot.”
She is a “second language acquisition” professor according to her bio.
“My primary fields of inquiry are critical applied linguistics, critical sociolinguistics and critical discourse studies examining race, gender, sexual and social class identities in new language learning through the multilingual journeys of African American students,” her bio states.
“I also have expertise in diversity, equity and inclusion in instructional practices and curriculum design, language study abroad, applied linguistics as a practice of social justice, intercultural communication and service-learning in secondary and university-level language programs,” she states on her bio.
Anya previously celebrated the death of Queen Elizabeth.
Anya’s family is from Nigeria, a former British colony. “That wretched woman and her bloodthirsty throne have [f**ked] generations of my ancestors on both sides of the family,” she wrote at the time.
She criticized the United Kingdom’s involvement in a civil war in Nigeria.
While Anya suggested the shooting was staged, along with a handful of other academics, another professor suggested the former president “took a bullet” “for his own personal aggrandizement.” Other professors were disappointed that Trump survived.
Campus Reform reported:
A professor at a California community college took to her Threads account after the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump to suggest he took a bullet for his own “personal aggrandizement.”
“‘He took a bullet for his country!’ No he didn’t,” wrote Inna Kanevsky in a since-deleted Threads post. “He took it, like everything else he took and keeps taking, for himself. For his own personal aggrandizement.”
George Mason University Professor Ilya Somin condemned the violence against Trump, but also expressed disappointment that the assassination attempt might help the former president.
“The attack deserves condemnation. But it should not obscure the evil of Trump himself, including his role in promoting political violence,” Somin wrote at Reason.
“I fear Trump will get a sympathy boost from this event. It may be only a couple percentage points in the upcoming election,” the law professor wrote. “But that could be decisive in a close contest. If so, it is even more imperative than before that the Democrats replace Biden with a stronger candidate.”
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