We can’t lose our case with Harvard, Trump declares
- Harvard admitted “troublemakers”
President of the United States, Donald Trump, has vowed to drive its legal battle with Harvard University to success, insisting that his administration of the government would not watch the institution continue admitting trouble makers influenced by the radical left.
In clarifying that he never wanted to stop foreign students from coming to his country, Trump blamed the Harvard University for enrolling foreign “students who are causing trouble” in the country despite receiving over $5.0 billion in government grants.
“We want students, I want foreign students here… Our country has given Harvard $5 billion plus over a short period of time. Nobody knew that; we found that out. I wouldn’t say that was a DOGE thing,” Trump said.
Trump regretted that despite billions in federal grants to Harvard, “we ended up in litigation for other reasons because they’re very anti-semitic. And in finding out and in going through the books, we found out that the country gave them $5 billion plus, much more than that, actually, and we’re having it out with them, and let’s see what happens.”
“It’s a very sad case. It’s a case we win. We can’t lose that case because we have the right to make grants. We’re not going to make any grants like that, but I don’t think Harvard has been acting very nicely,” he added.
The dispute between Harvard University and the government escalated after the Trump administration moved to block Harvard University from enrolling international students, leading to a legal battle after advocating that the institution should cap the number of foreign students it admits at 15 per cent.
Trump noted that many foreign nationals admitted by Harvard are “troublemakers”, disrupting the country.
“We don’t want to see shopping centers explode. We don’t want to see the kind of riots that you had,” he stated, adding that “many of those students were troublemakers caused by the radical left.”
A federal judge had temporarily halted the Trump administration’s ban after Harvard University filed a suit in federal court.
Harvard argued revocation of its certification in the Student and Exchange Visitor Program was “clear retaliation” for its refusal of the government’s ideologically rooted policy demands.
