White House officials say they sent Harvard April 11 demands in error, New York Times reports
White House officials say they sent Harvard April 11 demands in error, New York Times reports
The White House had not intended to send its revised — and more aggressive — set of demands to Harvard on April 11, according to a report by the New York Times published Friday evening.
Summary
The White House claimed it had not intended to send its revised, and more aggressive, set of demands to Harvard on April 11, according to a report by the New York Times published Friday evening.
Trump administration officials claimed that the demands, which were seen as excessive and illegal to Harvard’s administrators, should not have been sent and were “unauthorized.”
The Friday letter was supposed to clarify the initial list, but instead presented a much more aggressive array of demands that included derecognizing pro-Palestine groups, submitting to three years of federal audits, and agreeing to report international students who broke University conduct policies to federal agencies.
“Even if the letter was a mistake, the actions the government took this week have real-life consequences.”
that they had the 'revised, and more aggressive, set of demands' already written is telling enough.
"Whoops, you weren't meant to see that yet.."
This just screams 'I'm sorry mister Tyson, I didn't mean to punch YOU in the face.'
This is why we say, "Do not comply in advance". I don't buy this explanation for one second. Someone stood up the these MAGA-looneys and they're saying this to save face and try to dodge problems in court.
I don’t buy this explanation for one second.
Why would the demands have even been written up in the first place if they hadn't intended to send them?
Well yeah, the article specifically mentioned that Harvard admins saw the demands as excessive and illegal.
Harvard has a lot of clout, and I think it's reasonable to assume that someone very high-up at the school got on the phone with somebody very high-up at WH (if not POTUS himself) and straight up told them a narcissist's least-favorite word: "No."
"I didn't want you to do that anyways." crosses arms
Fucking maga clowns
They claim it was a mistake ….. so all the retaliatory funding freezes are cancelled, right? RIGHT?
So either incomprehensibly incompetent or unimaginably evil. You can pick one, or acknowledge both.
Have not even read the article, but they really are just fucking around and if there is too much pressure they say "whoopsie" to save face, and normalize the atrocities. Doesn't mean they'll stop trying to do the thing.
The MAGA Nazis are so stupid that they think "Sorry, we're incompetent!" is a valid explanation for their evil.
The place that should be held to the highest standard for employment making intern level of mistake daily is also telling how awful these people are at their jobs. Stuff like this would never be able to happen at a regular job and things like this require multiple people to sign off on to make sure mistakes are not made. If they are making mistakes like this, just imagine the stuff we don't see or hear about... yet.
Viewpoint DEI wtf