A leading political academic has resigned from his Oxford University post after he claimed that one of the university’s main patrons is also one of Donald Trump’s biggest financial backers. Rothstein said he resigned on Monday after concluding that Blavatnik had given a substantial donation to the Trump campaign, which he called “incomprehensible and irresponsible”. The spokesman added that despite the professor’s resignation “neither Blavatnik nor any of his companies ever made a donation to the Trump presidential campaign”. That report details that Blavatnik made donations to Marco Rubio and other unsuccessful Republican candidates but not Trump. The university was heavily criticised for accepting the original donation from Blavatnik.

Source: The Guardian August 28, 2017 15:02 UTC