Is tRump 2.0 so out of touch that it accidentally sent threatening letters to Harvard University?
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No it’s the Harvard University admins who are to blame for responding to the threatening letter.
The Trump administration’s war with Harvard University is apparently all one big whoops.
A senior Trump official told Harvard University that the letter it received last week containing a list of demands was sent in error, The New York Times reports.
The letter included a series of demands regarding the school’s hiring policies, admissions, and curriculum—demands so extreme that Harvard officials felt they had little choice but to refuse.
Now, White House officials are claiming that the letter—who they say was sent by the acting general counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services, Sean Keveney
HHS? Why? Never mind.
—was sent in error. While its content was authentic, some insiders believe it was sent prematurely, while others thought it had been intended for internal use only.
A third group probably blames George Soros.
The letter directed Harvard to implement reforms to governance and leadership, as well as its hiring and admissions processes, if the school wanted to continue receiving federal funding. It demanded that Harvard implement merit-based policies and cease all “preferences based on race, color, national origin, or proxies thereof” as well as prevent the admittance of international students “hostile to American values” and discontinue all [diversity, equity and inclusion] programs.
Many of the demands laid out in the letter related to the antisemitism that the Trump administration alleges exists on many university campuses, including Harvard. One such demand was the reforming or removal of programs with “egregious records of antisemitism,” including programs in the Divinity School, the School of Public Health, and the Graduate School of Education.
Whomst amongst us hasn’t sent someone a threatening letter and then blamed the recipient for standing up and telling us to fuck off?
White House senior policy strategist May Mailman said that Harvard’s response was excessive, telling the New York Times, “It was malpractice on the side of Harvard’s lawyers not to pick up the phone and call the members of the antisemitism task force who they had been talking to for weeks.” She added, “Instead, Harvard went on a victimhood campaign.”
For its part, Harvard responded that there were no signs the letter was anything less than legitimate and admin-approved. University officials explained in a statement released on Friday that the letter was “signed by three federal officials, placed on official letterhead, was sent from the email inbox of a senior federal official and was sent on April 11 as promised.”
Ah-ha! But was it the live form vault copy of the letter??
At any rate, the latest round of stumblebumming is the direct result of Harvard saying “No. Fuck you.” And possibly an alum or two waving money under Dumpster Don’s nose to get his attention.
Consider this your overnight open thread. Unless it is daytime where you are.
