So, I have a confession to make. I went to college -- and graduate school -- at Georgetown University. Why would I frame that as a 'confession'? It wasn't this way. Once upon a time, I was proud as hell that I was a Hoya. It was a great academic institution, and my closest lifelong friends are the ones I made while in college.
Not only that, but I 'bled Hoya blue,' as we used to say. The basketball players I went to school with or watched after graduation are legendary. No, not Patrick Ewing, but Alonzo Mourning? Dikembe Mutombo? Allen Iverson? Jeff Green? I lived to watch those men and those teams play. Season tickets, every year. And when the mouthbreathers from Syracuse used to shout, 'What the hell's a Hoya?', we were always ready to shout back, 'Your future employa'.'
(Syracuse still sucks, by the way. Nothing will ever change that.)
And above everything, I was proud because my father always wanted to go to Georgetown. But he couldn't afford it. So, it always gave me a thrill when he would come to visit, and we could talk about school and go to a game together. We watched the Patrick Ewing teams win the national championship (and lose in two other of the greatest national championship games ever played) when I was younger. Then, a few years before he passed, my father and I got to enjoy the Hoyas returning to the Final Four in 2007. (Ohio State ... you also suck by the way. LOL.)
So, why am I embarrassed today to admit I went to Georgetown? No, it doesn't have anything to do with the steady decline of the basketball program. It has everything to do with the precipitous decline of Georgetown as a respectable academic institution.
People will always pay attention to Harvard first, of course, and other Ivy League schools, but in the 21st century, Georgetown has embraced wokeness just as much as any other elite university. Each of its schools has its own DEI department. Georgetown embraces activist professors, rather than teachers who stress academic rigor and integrity. In 2019, Georgetown adopted reparations, giving out hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to 'descendant' individuals and organizations. Finally, of course, even though it is a Catholic university, Georgetown fully embraces student pro-abortion activism. And this is just a partial list.
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It is not a coincidence that much of this wokeness coincides with the ascendency of Jack DeGioia to the university presidency in 2001 -- the first non-Jesuit to hold the position in the history of the oldest Catholic university in the United States. DeGioia is a child of the WEF, a member of the organization's Global Agenda Council on Values and Global University Leaders Forum. You can guess what that means for the direction he steers the school in.
So, I was hardly surprised this week to learn of yet another disgraceful report coming out about Georgetown, this time from the university's law center. Because it turns out, not only has Georgetown embraced wokeness, but the Law Center is also at the heart of what we have come to know today as 'lawfare.' I suppose those two go hand in hand.
On St. Patrick's Day, Deroy Murdock (another once-proud-but-no-longer Georgetown alum), writing for The American Spectator, issued an alarming report that reveals that so many of the corrupt actions taken by the 'deep state' in recent years to take down former President Donald Trump can be traced back to ... yes, Georgetown University and its Law Center.
HOYAGATE!
— Michael R. Caputo (@MichaelRCaputo) March 18, 2024
Good Lord! Who knew so much Get Trump activity is organized quietly from @Georgetown University?👇
This can’t be legal with their tax exempt status They got a billion from taxpayers?@rosa_brooks at @GeorgetownLaw has some explaining to do.https://t.co/waq61v7fM9
At the center of many of these actions is the Transition Integrity Project, co-founded by Rosa Brooks, an associate dean at the Law Center. You will not be surprised that Brooks was also a senior advisor in the Obama and Biden administrations. Murdock writes:
Brooks confirmed her commitment to democracy just 10 days into the Trump Administration. In her Foreign Policy magazine article headlined 'Three ways to get rid of Trump,' she offered another idea. 'The fourth possibility is one that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America: a military coup.'
That might sound shocking -- and it should -- but it should not be surprising coming out of TIP. The group was formed specifically to look at ways to 'get around' election results. They did this through various 'war games' scenarios, which included fomenting unrest and worse.
The web runs much deeper than Brooks though. Hillary Clinton's 2016 advisor and Obama's Chief of Staff John Podesta was also a part of TIP. Podesta is also a professor at the law school.
Podesta's wrongdoings over the years are literally too long to list here, but as a member of TIP, Murdock focuses on his role in TIP as a Biden surrogate in the war games. One of the scenarios involved actual secession.
According to TIP’s final report, released August 3, 2020 — at least three months before Trump’s alleged conspiracy to 'overturn the election' — Podesta/Biden melted down after Trump’s hypothetical re-election. In a 'frankly ridiculous move,' as one TIPster called it, Podesta/Biden followed 'advice from President Obama' and threatened that California, Oregon, and Washington State would merge as Cascadia and secede from the Union.
Of course, 'they're just fictional scenarios,' some might say. OK, fair enough. But isn't it interesting that many of these scenarios involved accusations that Democrats universally began slinging at Donald Trump after he lost the 2020 election?
Projection, it seems, ran rampant coming out of TIP.
Another of Podesta/Biden's TIP recommendations was to eliminate the Electoral College. Sound familiar?
Murdock goes on to list several other political activists within Georgetown University Law Center who were either part of TIP, or otherwise engaged in 'lawfare':
- Disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok, an adjunct professor at Georgetown, who vowed to his lover Lisa Page that they would never let Trump win the election.
- Former Deputy Attorney General Donald Ayer, another adjunct professor, who penned articles with such incendiary titles as 'The DOJ Must Prosecute Trump,' and 'Don’t Let Donald Trump Take His Case to Federal Court.'
- Jacob Glick, a counsel at Georgetown Law, also served as an investigative counsel for the corrupt and discredited January 6 Committee, which hid and destroyed evidence.
And finally, there is Mary McCord, a visiting professor at Georgetown and executive director of the law school's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP). Murdock details how McCord is at the center of nearly every lawfare effort to 'get' Trump.
'Mary McCord submitted the original false FISA application to the court using the demonstrably false Dossier. Mary McCord participated in the framing of Michael Flynn. Mary McCord worked with ICIG Michael Atkinson to create a fraudulent whistleblower complaint against President Trump; and Mary McCord used that manipulated complaint to assemble articles of impeachment on behalf of the joint House Intel and Judiciary Committee. Mary McCord then took up a defensive position inside the FISA court to protect the DOJ and FBI from sunlight upon all the aforementioned corrupt activity.'
None of these people are honest actors. All of them operate out of malicious intent.
And they all work at Georgetown.
'So what,' you ask? Well, that's a good -- and fair -- question. Other than being a cesspool of hyper-partisans, Georgetown University has listed itself as a 501(c)(3) institution since 1973. As such, it has enjoyed tax-exempt status for 50 years.
There's just one problem with that. According to the IRS, 'Under the Internal Revenue Code, all section 501(c)(3) organizations are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office.'
Georgetown also receives Pell Grants and many other taxpayer-funded federal subsidies such as research fees and grants. And that's not even mentioning the nearly $1 billion in federal financial aid the school has received in just the past six years alone.
Geogetown's endowment currently stands at more than $3 billion, by the way. Nothing compared to Harvard but certainly big enough that it would seem the university is hardly in need of federal funding.
Murdock concludes his report with a simple, but necessary request:
Should a university that has collected $970,359,921 from federal taxpayers in just six fiscal years enjoy even more such largesse and serve as the Vatican of Trump Hatred? Or should it choose between these conflicting objectives?
Congressional investigators should answer these questions and give Georgetown University the tough love it needs to become, once again, the center of balanced intellectual inquiry that I recall so fondly.
I don't know if I have any confidence that Georgetown can ever again become what it once was: a beacon of academic pursuit 'on the Hilltop.'
But even if it can't, there is no reason that Georgetown -- and many other schools just like it -- should not be the subject of a serious Congressional probe based on this report. The rot there may run too deep to ever clean out entirely, but even if that's not possible, removing its federal funding could at least prevent taxpayers from being forced to finance institutions like Georgetown whose faculty consider themselves to be 'star chambers' and who seem to hate at least half of America, if not more.
So, even as I disavow Georgetown as my alma mater -- likely forever -- I say, let the investigations begin.
[Author's Note: Oh, by the way, I also went to Georgetown University at the same time as a certain First Son who likes to snort grated parmesan cheese and serve on Ukrainian energy boards. I won't go into detail here, but I can say this much: that individual was ALWAYS a drug addict and ALWAYS an embarrassment. And he never would have even sniffed -- no pun intended -- admission to Georgetown at the time if he didn't share a last name with a then-Senator from Delaware.
But that's a story for another time.]
