‘I SEE NO APOLOGY’: Naval Academy Postpones Anti-Trump Lecturer, Critics Demand Answers

[FPrice]

The U.S. Naval Academy announced that it would postpone a lecture featuring a politically charged speaker who suggested she would use the event to attack former President Donald Trump, less than a month before the 2024 presidential election. While the academy postponed the speech, critics demanded answers as to why it selected the speaker in the first place and whether the selection violated Defense Department protocol.

Last week, four researchers at The Heritage Foundation wrote pieces in The Daily Signal, highlighting the past remarks of Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a history professor at New York University whom the Naval Academy invited to deliver its annual Bancroft Lecture on Oct. 10. On Monday, the academy told The Federalist that the lecture had been suspended. The academy confirmed the same in a statement to The Daily Signal Tuesday.

‘I SEE NO APOLOGY’: Naval Academy Postpones Anti-Trump Lecturer, Critics Demand Answers

Following criticism from Heritage Foundation scholars, the Naval Academy postponed an anti-Trump lecturer, but provided no answers.

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[Rat187]

Ruth Ben-Ghiat...

"Whether or not Trump really has the constitutional right to grant himself clemency is beside the point for some critics. That the president is publicly flexing these powers in the first place is more troubling for New York University professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a scholar on fascism and authoritarian leaders. It's in the tradition of the trial balloons he's been launching since his campaign, which warn the public and his GOP allies that he feels he's above the law," she said."

 

[dustoff22]

The person or group who invited her must have researched her on-going anti-Trump crusade. What the hell were they thinking? That it went so far as to invite her tells me that there's a very unhealthy infection amongst leadership at the USNA.

 

[Picton]

The person or group who invited her must have researched her on-going anti-Trump crusade. What the hell were they thinking? That it went so far as to invite her tells me that there's a very unhealthy infection amongst leadership at the USNA.

"The Bancroft Lecture series is held each year in October and was established by the Naval Academy’s History Department to honor the academy’s founder, George Bancroft. The Bancroft Lecture series is supported by private gift funds donated through the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation and celebrates the anniversary of Bancroft’s birth (Oct. 3, 1800) and the anniversary of the founding of the academy (Oct. 10, 1845)." That was a 2015 USNA press release.

Most of what I'm seeing online claims that the Bancroft Lecturer is chosen by the Academy's history department; it's always a history lecture, and it doesn't seem to have much to do with naval history necessarily. I don't know what the process is, but I might soon. Congress might look into this, since any active-duty person involved in a political lecture was going to be in BIIIIIG trouble.

 

[Kevin_NH]

Who at the naval academy thought it was a good idea to bring a guest speaker hell bent on insulting the guy who could soon be their capo dei capi? (to put it in terms that Ruth, professor of Italian, would understand).