Lyon College President Resigns After Criticism For Remarks

This is rich…the following gleaned from the 2 linked articles below:

• Joseph King, president of (liberal) Lyon College in Batesville Ark since 2017, resigned today

• King had claimed the local area around the college was full of white supremists

• King alleged thousands of hostile Trump supporters held a rally last fall and vandalized his campus home

• Batesville Police Chief Alan Cockrill told Region 8 News that the rally and the alleged vandalism never happened

• Local Mayor, County Judge and Chamber of Commerce petitioned the school for his resignation after uproar of local population

• Had co-authored books on how to run a college (irony)

• (unrelated trivia) Batesville is where Hunter Biden's table-dancing baba-mama is from

www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/aug/26/mayor-county-judge-call-ouster-lyon-college-presid/

www.kait8.com/2021/08/26/city-county-leaders-urge-lyon-college-trustees-fire-president/