University student president faces impeachment after bringing Trump jnr to campus [View all]
Source: The Age
After the University of Florida's student body president helped bring Donald Trump jnr and Trump campaign adviser Kimberly Guilfoyle to campus last month to the tune of $US50,000 ($72,500), the university's student government has now moved to impeach him, arguing that the speaking engagement amounted to a misuse of student fees.
The student body president, Michael Murphy, was served with the impeachment resolution on Tuesday and accused of malfeasance and abuse of power - a development unfolding at the university just as President Donald Trump's public impeachment hearings begin on Capitol Hill.
For Trump, the key piece of evidence is his July phone call with the Ukrainian President. For Murphy it's an email, a short exchange with a Trump campaign consultant that his critics say is proof of misconduct.
The group of senators seeking Murphy's impeachment argue that the October 10 speaking engagement for Trump jnr and Guilfoyle, his girlfriend, was funded with mandatory student fees in violation of rules banning the use of public students funds to support or oppose a "political party at any level." In the eyes of critics, Murphy's correspondence with the Trump fundraising consultant ahead of the event bolsters their case that Trump jnr and Guilfoyle's appearance was a campaign event.
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