Critics — including students and alumni — questioned why the university, in Greenville, N.C., would provide the president with a platform, especially given the furor over his recent tweets telling the four Democratic lawmakers to “go back” to the “crime-infested places from which they came.” Three of the four women were born in the United States, and all four are American citizens.
East Carolina officials, though, probably weren't in a position to say no to Trump.
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