A Virginia college dean has resigned after public outcry, but praise on Twitter from President Donald Trump, over a now-deleted post on his Facebook page that called voters for Joe Biden "ignorant, anti-American, and anti-Christian."
Paul Ewell has resigned as dean and from the faculty at the Virginia Wesleyan University Global Campus and told CNN in an email that he "apologized profusely" and had "nothing left to add.
His post, originally reported in The Virginian-Pilot, shows him imploring Facebook friends who voted for Biden to unfriend him. Ewell's account has since been taken down.
"If you were ignorant, anti-American, and anti-Christian enough to vote for Biden, I really don't want to be your social friend on social media," the post said. "I wouldn't hang out with you in real life, I don't want to hang out with you virtually either. You have corrupted the election. You have corrupted our youth. You have corrupted our country. I have standards and you don't meet them. Please remove yourself."
Trump on Sunday posted a link on his Twitter account to a story posted from NBC affiliate WWBT, adding just one word: "Progress!"
Virginia Wesleyan University confirmed Monday that it had accepted Ewell's resignation, and the university's chief marketing officer, Stephanie Smaglo, said there is no further information at this time. Ewell had been a VWU professor since 2008.
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