Conflicting views clash on Saint Anslem campus during Trump town hall

GOFFSTOWN, NH — Conflicting views about former President Trump clashed at Saint Anslem College during a controversial town hall held on campus.

Trump participated in the event at the college in the Manchester area on Wednesday night.

A petition attempting to stop Trump’s appearance at Saint Anslem gathered more than 1,000 signatures.

Saint Anselm President Joseph Favazza said Trump was invited because he is a front-runner for the Republican nomination and the former president of the United States.

“After everything that Joe Biden has done to our country, I feel we need someone to come back into the office and set things straight,” said Saint Anslem student Olivia Parzick.

The town hall came as Trump faces an indictment in New York, investigations into the January 2021 attack on the US Capitol and on the handling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence as well as potential charges from the investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia.

It also happened one day after a Manhattan federal jury found the former president liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.

“I’m concerned that a Catholic college would be sponsoring a man who is a serial liar, a philanderer, all kinds of trouble,” said Scott Schaeffer-Duffy, who opposed the visit

Trump called Tuesday’s verdict a “total disgrace” and has also said he will continue his campaign regardless of any legal trouble he faces.

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