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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The head of a University of Virginia affiliate focused on presidential scholarship is defending his decision to hire a departing member of President Donald Trump's administration as a senior fellow.
Miller Center CEO William Antholis said in a statement Friday that he'd received significant backlash for hiring Trump's legislative affairs director Marc Short.
A petition has circulated opposed to Short's appointment by faculty and students still angry about the president's response to last year's white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, where a woman was killed.
Antholis said Short's one-year fellowship will bring to the center a "missing critical voice" of a Trump supporter while helping the center's scholars stay "at the cutting edge" of their fields.
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