{"id":2563870,"date":"2026-02-03T14:44:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/completely-wrong-trump-demands-1-billion-from-harvard-contradicting-new-york-times-report\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T14:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:47:06","slug":"completely-wrong-trump-demands-1-billion-from-harvard-contradicting-new-york-times-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/completely-wrong-trump-demands-1-billion-from-harvard-contradicting-new-york-times-report\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Completely Wrong\u2019: Trump Demands $1 Billion From Harvard, Contradicting New York Times Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcompletely-wrong-trump-demands-1-billion-from-harvard-contradicting-new-york-times-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2563870&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article reports that Donald Trump is demanding $1 billion in damages from Harvard University and dismissing a New york Times story about his governance\u2019s position on a potential settlement over anti-Semitism and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-nominee-for-civil-rights-position-rejects-presumption-of-innocence-defends-tweet-claiming-trump-era-regs-allow-students-to-rape-with-impunity\/\" title=\"Biden Nominee For Civil Rights Position Rejects Presumption Of Innocence, Defends Tweet Claiming Trump-ERA Regs Allow Students To \u2018Rape\u2019 With \u2018Impunity\u2019\">civil rights concerns<\/a> on campus.Trump criticized Harvard as \u201cstrongly antisemitic\u201d and accused the Times of publishing \u201cnonsense,\u201d insisting that the story is wrong and that negotiations continue. The Times had suggested the White house was no longer pressing for a $200 million payment, but Trump characterized that account as inaccurate and described Harvard\u2019s proposed settlement as an attempt to avoid a larger payout. The context includes historic tensions over anti-Semitism at Harvard, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >previous federal funding actions<\/a> by the Trump administration, and ongoing negotiations about potential penalties, with some officials signaling that a deal may eventually be necessary. Separately, the administration had earlier cut about $450 million in federal grants in May, citing separate reports of racial discrimination at Harvard, while the Times defended its reporting and Harvard did not comment.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"&lsquo;Completely Wrong&rsquo;: Trump Demands $1 Billion From Harvard, Contradicting New York Times Report\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/climate-change-was-supposed-to-make-dc-winters-more-southern-and-its-colder-than-its-been-in-three-decades\" data-post-url id=\"print-2111329\">\n<div>\n<h2>&lsquo;Strongly Antisemitic Harvard University has been feeding a lot of &ldquo;nonsense&rdquo; to The Failing New York Times,&rsquo; Trump wrote on Truth Social<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tHarvard (edited from Scott Eisen\/Getty Images), Donald Trump (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump announced that he&nbsp;is seeking&nbsp;$1 billion in damages from Harvard University and flatly rejected a&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;report claiming that his administration had backtracked on demands for a financial payment to resolve&nbsp;charges of&nbsp;anti-Semitism and&nbsp;civil rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Strongly Antisemitic Harvard University has been feeding a lot of &#8216;nonsense&#8217; to The Failing New York Times. Harvard has been, for a long time, behaving very badly!&#8221; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116004776659519984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted<\/a> Monday night on Truth Social. &#8220;We are now seeking One Billion Dollars in damages, and want nothing further to do, into the future, with Harvard University.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s post came in response to a <em>Times<\/em> report that the White House was no longer demanding a $200 million payment from Harvard to resolve claims that the university let anti-Semitism run rampant on campus. Anti-Semitism at Harvard, which had been mounting before Oct. 7, 2023, was exposed by the university&#8217;s response to the attacks, which prompted bipartisan condemnation and congressional and federal investigations. After Trump took office, he froze federal funding for the university. A judge restored some of it, but the federal government is appealing, and even if existing funds are restored, a cutoff of future funds would be painful to Harvard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Failing New York Times story was completely wrong concerning Harvard University,&#8221; Trump said in a follow-up <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116004978871320100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a>. &#8220;I hereby demand that the morons that run (into the ground!) the Times&#8217; change their story, immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The president also said Harvard tried pitching a &#8220;convoluted job training concept, but it was turned down in that it was wholly inadequate and would not have been, in our opinion, successful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;This should be a Criminal, not Civil, event, and Harvard will have to live with the consequences of their wrongdoings. In any event, this case will continue until justice is served.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harvard had already rejected the Trump administration&#8217;s demands to cut a $200 million check to the U.S. Treasury. Some university officials, however, believe the Ivy League school has no other option and will eventually need to strike a deal.        <\/p>\n<p>Madi Biedermann, the acting chief of staff for the Department of Education, told the <em>Times<\/em> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-hamas-no-longer-is-capable-of-carrying-out-another-oct-7\/\" title=\"Biden declares Hamas unable to repeat Oct. 7 attack\">negotiations remain ongoing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard has continued to face new accusations of anti-Semitism and discrimination even after the White House started pressuring the university. In May, for example, the Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/trump-administration-to-cut-additional-450-million-in-grants-to-harvard-citing-free-beacon-reports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stripped<\/a> $450 million in federal grants, citing two <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> reports, one on <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/exclusive-internal-documents-reveal-pervasive-pattern-of-racial-discrimination-at-harvard-law-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racial discrimination<\/a> at the <em>Harvard Law Review<\/em> and the other on a fellowship that the law review <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/harvard-law-review-awards-65k-fellowship-to-student-charged-in-assault-of-israeli-classmate-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">awarded<\/a> to a student accused of accosting an Israeli classmate.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement,<em>&nbsp;Times<\/em>&nbsp;spokeswoman Nicole Taylor defended the newspaper&#8217;s story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Trump and the administration have demonstrated a pattern of criticizing accurate reporting that illuminates new facts about their efforts,&#8221; she said, noting that the story was &#8220;based on extensive reporting, including conversations with Harvard and Trump officials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harvard did not respond to <em>Free Beacon<\/em> requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump sues Harvard for $1B; denies NYT backtrack claim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4147,"featured_media":2563871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MixCollage-11-Jul-2025-12-04-PM-1338.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[14280,13420,6240,33263,3634],"class_list":["post-2563870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-billion-dollar","tag-fact-check","tag-harvard","tag-new-york-times","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MixCollage-11-Jul-2025-12-04-PM-1338.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2563870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2563878,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563870\/revisions\/2563878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2563871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2563870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2563870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2563870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}