“Garber, in a conversation with one faculty member, said that the suggestion that Harvard was open to paying $500 million is ‘false’ and claimed that the figure was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials...” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Good! But someone is lying, and with the record the White House has, it’s real easy to believe Garber.
That’s not a leak. That’s an attempt at manipulation for political purposes which is lapped up by a press that has fallen from grace.
We have to dismiss anything coming from the WH until there is legit corroboration.
If any institution deserves to pay a hefty fine it’s the Wharton School.
How can you “leak” fiction?
The player in the prisoner's dilemma who doesn't rat when the other player does gets maximally screwed.
>>”The University is seriously considering resolving its dispute with the White House through the courts “. I like their odds, given that 4 of the 9 Supreme Court justices are from Harvard.
Forget the Harvard t-shirts you all bought. I promise to go t-shirtless for a period of time (wait for video of cops chasing me down street) if this is indeed true, that Harvard has upheld their integrity + told the facist to 🖕🏼 all the way off.
The art of the deal, eh? If the administration is to eliminate fraud waste and abuse, can we just dispense with the President for breaching all of the above?
Thank you for standing strong. Millions of us stand with you!👊
Why didn't he speak up about this sooner?
He’s playing it well: speak softly, mostly through court filings, and hire good lawyers. Each win in court will drive Trump and Miller crazier, and will make it more likely that they snap in ways that can shift public opinion even more against them.
Yeah!!!
Let's hope so!
The administration is a running fraud operation.
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The top administration people at Harvard should all come out and state their aren't open to blackmail efforts and refute any WH statement.
If it was “leaked” then there’s some basis for it though?
It probably was leaked to put pressure on Harvard to fight
If true about this news manipulation by the White House (and wouldn’t put it past them), WTF has happened to basic reporting, fact-checking, and considering the source before putting it out there?
Keep fighting
This seems to be a Trump tactic--like when he said the WH called FIFA about returning the gold trophy and the league just told him to keep it in the Oval Office. It's awkward for the FIFA or Harvard president to say the president is lying. sports.yahoo.com/article/trum...
Thank you! Nobody should be caving in to this administration.
Whew. I was about to send back my sweatshirt I purchased from them when they said f u trump.
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What great news! I was so disheartened by another capitulation. Stay strong, Harvard.
yeah, this was one of the White House's smartest lies yet. Freaked everyone out and made us distrust Harvard.
Same here! It was very disconcerting to hear Glad it's not true....
Right? It really shook me to think that they'd caved.
What’s shaking me is how many media outlets reported this as fact before The Crimson confirmed the contrary.
It's been shocking to see how many different institutions caved, all w/in just a few short mo's Numerous large law firms, universities, media outlets, one after the other If we get thru this, they need to be held accountable, somehow (tho I'm not sure what that would look like)
It's just been so much, so fast. I don't know how we could hold organizations responsible, but payback will certainly come in the form of tainted reputations. My husband's school caved and he wouldn't recommend it to anyone now. These organizations are being punished, they just don't realize it yet.
I agree that the best way to hold these institutions accountable, or at least ensure they pay some kind of price, is exactly that: they're boycotted or blackballed over their complicity It's happening to some extent w the media (tho not enough, imo)
Rachel did a nice, optimistic overview of the legal profession since being targeted by Trump The law firms who didn't fold won their court cases, DOJ lawyers fired by Trump started their own firm, admin officials reported for w ethics complaints, disbarment www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE32...
Hopefully enough people reinforce the idea that one never can give enough to an extortionist like Trump. It’s never enough never ever they always want more.
The wh is desperate for a deal.
It would have been better if he'd said "those Vichy numbskulls in Morningside Heights might be fine with abject surrender, but we're sure as hell not"
WH LIAR TEAM in action ... so lazy and predictable. What next for attempt @ distraction FROM RELEASING EPSTEIN FILES.
Very trumpian tactic to declare what he wants to be true as the truth until someone challenges it. We all should know this by now.
Yeah, it was only for 499 MILLION.
good on you, Harvard!!
GOOD! Don't cave to the temperamental tyrant. He is not the boss of everything in spite of what he thinks.
I’m still do not understand how he can extort this much from universities.
Trump lies… Again. Wow. Never saw that coming.
So is the figure closer to 400 million?
Another day, another lie
Put an NDA in an agreement with Trump and you won't have to pay him shit... or he'll have to pay you.
As I suggested, days ago. bsky.app/profile/curi...
There were three experienced NYT reporters on that story. Pretty big gaffe, if true.
This is why it's actually suicidally stupid to agree to meet with and negotiate with Trump's team in the first place. It's all bad faith and even if you are dumb enough to give them everything they demand they celebrate any capitulation by claiming victories you never even talked about anyway.
beginning to think that our society's very smartest boys are actually not especially bright
As a whole, we are a lot stupider than we seem.
Sounds a lot like that $500 Billion the WH said the Japanese agreed to pay until someone asked the Japanese and they called BS! See the pattern? The Trump WH lies all the time. They mostly lie.
Garber, in a conversation, didn't say that Harvard leaked any denials when the story broke over a week ago and he lost an upper hand.
I did not buy a Harvard t-shirt and wear it to have the Ivy League college cave in to the Dictator in Chief. Harvard will stand proud!
Not another lie....
Wow the gas lighting from this administration is astronomical. Just lies lies lies every time
IT IS NOT A “DISPUTE”. It is an attempted hostile takeover.👍🏻
Would have been more accurate to say “planted” rather than “leaked”
I like the Big Ten's, not at all associated with kissing way of dealing with trumps threats. bsky.app/profile/asca...
Yeah, um, Harvard is going to pay me $500 million too. 😝
“It’s a *billion* dollar deal!” Seriously, any amount over zero dollars is abject cowardice and surrender which will *not* be forgotten.
My maximum acceptable amount is somewhere in the vicinity of the $3 the NFL had to pay the USFL after Trump killed the league but won an antitrust judgment (treble damages).
The article refers to Harvard making a deal. We shouldn't normalize this using Trump-speak. Let's call it what it really is: deal = extortion.
We're so back
I sure hope Harvard is being truthful about this.
I'm just gonna keep that Harvard tee shirt in my shopping cart for now...
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Good for them
If it's false, that's something that should be said out loud, not just in passing to a random faculty member
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Dirty deeds. Done dirt cheap.
Imagine that . . . fake news coming from the White House
Just 490
I hope this is true.
Phew, thank goodness!
There should be No DEAL at all. Stop shrinking to this creep.
It's either false, or leaked. You can't leak a lie.
I had rather assumed Ivy League universities at least were in communication with one another as soon as Trump moved against Columbia. Evidently they were not.
It's pathetic that someone like Donald Trump can attack great and powerful institutions like Harvard. His unsatiated greed and his unwavering belief in his own delusions of grandeur are as extraordinary as they are destructive and dangerous. He's ruthless. He's an embarrassment. He must be stopped.
Not a single word out of Trump Admin is true
Obviously
Phew!
hold. the. fucking. line. harvard ✊
Stay strong, Harvard! #DoNotCapitulate
Hold the line👊🇺🇲
I hope they dog walk Columbia this fall🏈🏈🏈
Trumpy lied???
Hope it's a lie. People need to stop bending the knee to this moron and stuffing his pockets.
This is what DJT does with trade 'agreements' too. Admin gives a wholly incorrect version of agreement, & basically dares other party to deny it. His MO: say/leak what you want, get your story out fast & first, let others try to catch up, daring them to publicly deny. Let's wake up, people & media.
