Trump seeks $1 billion from Harvard College in damages – Imperial Wire

U.S. President Donald Trump mentioned late on Monday that his administration is in search of $1 billion in damages from Harvard College.

“We at the moment are in search of One Billion {Dollars} in damages, and need nothing additional to do, into the long run, with Harvard College,” he mentioned in a put up on Reality Social, with out saying what particular harms the college had precipitated.

Trump’s administration in December appealed a decide’s ruling holding that it unlawfully terminated greater than $2 billion in grants awarded to Harvard and might not reduce off analysis funding to the Ivy League college.

Harvard has been a central focus of the administration’s broad marketing campaign to leverage federal funding to power change at U.S. universities, which Trump says are gripped by antisemitic and “radical left” ideologies.

Trump mentioned final yr that his administration was near a take care of Harvard that would come with a $500 million fee by the varsity, after months of negotiations over college insurance policies.