Harvard Stands Up And Rejects Trump's Extortion

Under the pretense of fighting antisemitism, the Trump administration threatened to pull billions of dollars in research funding from Harvard. The Ivy League school didn't blink.

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The Trump administration has been on an extortion bender. Trump’s White House has extorted free legal services from powerful law firms with threatening executive orders, and they have either stripped or threatened to strip research funding from universities under the pretense of fighting antisemitism on college campuses.

One of the primary targets of the Trump administration has been Harvard.

The Trump White House wants to control what is taught, who can be hired, and who can be admitted to the schools that they are targeting.

On Monday, Harvard said no.

Alan M. Garber, the president of Harvard University, wrote in a published letter:

Late Friday night, the administration issued an updated and expanded list of demands, warning that Harvard must comply if we intend to “maintain [our] financial relationship with the federal government.” It makes clear that the intention is not t…