Suffolk Community College students call out professor for apparent rant on President Trump

Salvatore's father posted the video to Facebook, where it has been shared thousands of times. The comments are filled with people calling on the professor to be fired.

News 12 Staff

Sep 10, 2020, 10:11 PM

Updated 1,317 days ago

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Some Suffolk Community College students say a virtual class turned into a 10-minute verbal assault on the president.
Jessica Salvatore says she recorded audio of her humanities professor criticizing President Donald Trump.
"Give him a chance, give him a chance. Well he's had four years of a chance and he's done a crap job. He's ruining our country," the audio says.
"I was shocked. You're initially like, every professor says you're not supposed to disclose your political views. So I was shocked and then when I found out she was saying horrible things I was really appalled," says Jessica Salvatore.
The audio also includes clips of the professor allegedly saying, "If any of you do still think Trump is a good president, I beg you to go into your heart's center and think about it a little more."
Salvatore's father posted the video to Facebook, where it has been shared thousands of times. The comments are filled with people calling on the professor to be fired.
Suffolk Community College issued a statement saying in part that they "...are aware of the video and have reassigned the faculty member pending an investigation."
Joanne Tamburro saw the video and said she was mad but not surprised. She says her son went to Suffolk Community College in 2011 and had to write an opinion essay on Sen. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama. He got an F.
"I'm like you got an F? He's like, 'Yeah and everyone else got an A.' I said, 'Are there any other Republicans in the class,' he said no," says Tamburro.
Tamburro claims she went to "raise holy hell" and ended up getting the grade changed to an A.
 


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