President Trump announced that his administration is demanding that Harvard University pay $1 billion in damages caused by its antisemitic actions.
“Strongly Antisemitic Harvard University has been feeding a lot of ‘nonsense’ to The Failing New York Times. Harvard has been, for a long time, behaving very badly! They wanted to do a convoluted job training concept, but it was turned down in that it was wholly inadequate and would not have been, in our opinion, successful,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “It was merely a way of Harvard getting out of a large cash settlement of more than 500 Million Dollars, a number that should be much higher for the serious and heinous illegalities that they have committed. This should be a Criminal, not Civil, event, and Harvard will have to live with the consequences of their wrongdoings.”
President Trump said Harvard President Alan Garber “has done a terrible job of rectifying a very bad situation for his institution and, more importantly, America, itself.”
“We are now seeking One Billion Dollars in damages, and want nothing further to do, into the future, with Harvard University,” Trump noted.
In September, a judge ruled against the Trump administration’s termination of $2.2 billion in federal research grants to the university. “The government-initiated onslaught against Harvard was much more about promoting a governmental orthodoxy in violation of the First Amendment than about anything else, including fighting antisemitism,” the judge wrote, adding, “There is, in reality, little connection between the research affected by the grant terminations and antisemitism.”
The Department of Justice has since filed an appeal.
