White House says UNC fraternity was ‘admirable’ in protecting American flag
The Biden White House commended a University of North Carolina fraternity Friday for protecting an American flag during recent campus protests.
Members of the UNC Pi Kappa Phi chapter were photographed preventing an American flag from touching the ground amid attempts to replace it with a Palestinian flag.
The photos went viral, and a third-party-run GoFundMe raised more than $500,000 to throw the fraternity the “rager” party “they deserve” for protecting the flag.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre faced a question during Friday’s briefing about President Joe Biden potentially donating to the group, even though the GoFundMe page stopped...