Stockard on the Stump: Far right goes after Belmont despite conservative, Baptist roots • Tennessee Lookout

Stockard on the Stump: Far right goes after Belmont despite conservative, Baptist roots • Tennessee Lookout

Belmont University. (Photo: John Partipilo)Despite deep ties to Tennessee conservatives and Republican power players, Belmont University is finding itself targeted by the Trump administration and its allies. Belmont has long been intertwined with the GOP. Gov. Bill Lee was once on its board, and the state’s former Republican House speaker served as an adjunct professor, while its law school dean was the former U.S. Attorney General under Preside…