The New York Times on Friday admitted that President Donald Trump “holds the levers of power” in his battle with Harvard University, which the Times added has “no way out.”
Trump is taking on Harvard over the Ivy League’s DEI (“diversity, equity, and inclusion”) policies, its handling of antisemitism on campus, and biased hiring and admissions policies. The Trump administration is working to block billions of federal dollars to Harvard, and more recently halted the university’s ability to enroll international students, though that’s been temporarily blocked by a judge.
NYT correspondent Michael Schmidt, who painted Trump negatively, admitted that the federal government holds the levers of power, since Harvard takes so much money from the feds. Notably, Trump is cracking down on the school because they won’t adjust policies the Right views as discriminatory and…