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Student seeks Senate ethics probe over Slotkin's campus remarks

Michael Bicksel tells Fox & Friends he interpreted the senator's comments about Trump administration jobs as a threat to students considering public service.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 263,634 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (23,259).

'CAMPUS CRAZINESS': Student files ethics complaint against Dem senator

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0:10Archive footage shows Slotkin discussing discouraging young people from taking jobs in a Trump administration.
0:32The segment displays Slotkin's response on X alongside an excerpt of Bicksel's ethics complaint.
0:54Bicksel says he interpreted the remarks as a threat against students considering Republican administration jobs.
1:58Bicksel says he wants a Senate ethics investigation into Slotkin.
2:47Bicksel invokes the University of Chicago's free-speech tradition.

He wants an investigation. University of Chicago student Michael Bicksel tells Rachel Campos-Duffy that his ethics complaint against Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin should lead to a formal Senate inquiry.

The Fox & Friends interview, posted by Fox News Clips, centers on remarks Slotkin made at the university's Institute of Politics about discouraging young people from working in a Trump administration. The segment plays footage of her appearance, then displays her response on X alongside an excerpt of Bicksel's complaint to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics.

Bicksel says he understood the remarks as a threat against students considering work in a Republican administration. "I clearly took it as a threat, and I don't think there's any other way to take it," he tells Campos-Duffy. The segment also presents Slotkin's defense, which the host reads in part as: "Follow the law, and we don't have a problem."

The interview has drawn roughly 150,000 views in ten hours. Its projected first-day audience is more than eleven times the channel's usual for comparable videos, though that full day has not yet elapsed.

Asked what he hopes to accomplish, Bicksel calls for an ethics investigation rather than describing a finding against the senator. The conversation ends with campus reaction and his reference to the University of Chicago's free-speech tradition.

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