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Obama calls Trump's freeze of Harvard funding 'unlawful'
BBC ^ | 04-15/2025 | Ana Faguy

Posted on 04/15/2025 11:06:15 AM PDT by BenLurkin

President Donald Trump is freezing more than $2bn (£1.5bn) in federal funds for Harvard because it would not make changes to its hiring, admissions and teaching practices that his administration said were key to fighting antisemitism on campus.

Obama, a Harvard alum, described the freeze as "unlawful and ham-handed".

He called on other institutions to follow Harvard's lead in not conceding to Trump's demands.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; arrestobama; insurrectionist; obamaisafag; seditionist
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To: BenLurkin

Substitute racism for antisemitism and see what the “ law” says

Substitute confederate flags for palestinian flags
Substitute the Aryan brotherhood for hamas
Then lets talk about what the “ law” permits on govt-funded campuses

Its all free speech..right?


21 posted on 04/15/2025 11:16:05 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: BenLurkin

Barak Obama (or whatever his real name is)
should be an Expert about Unlawfulness

from whatever we’ve seen or heard,
his presence in USA? uncertain on this one

his certification papers as supposedly “qualified” to become President (thanks to Nancy Pelosi)

his occupancy in our White House as the American “President”
his use of someone else’s social security number
his shipping $6 BILLION in “unmarked cash bills” by special jet to the Terrorist Murder Gangsters ruling Iran, thereby enabling their nuclear bomb building project and their ICBM delivery systems project too (to drop the nukes on American cities)
his .... you name it....he should, by all accounts, be an expert about illegality

yet on this one, he’s simply wrong.


22 posted on 04/15/2025 11:16:05 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: BenLurkin

Good ol’Barry, the “ constitutional scholar” that he is, lol!


23 posted on 04/15/2025 11:17:27 AM PDT by GrumpyOldGuy
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To: BenLurkin

Doesn’t this self-aggrandizing, ignorant, ass clown ever go away? His mother should have named him Herpes...


24 posted on 04/15/2025 11:20:41 AM PDT by Common Sense 101
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To: BenLurkin

d’oge em...


25 posted on 04/15/2025 11:21:30 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: BenLurkin
Go away, Obama, you bloviating jackass.


26 posted on 04/15/2025 11:21:30 AM PDT by Allegra (🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈)
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To: GrumpyOldGuy

Good old Bath House Barry who has the breath that smells of dingleberry.


27 posted on 04/15/2025 11:22:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: BenLurkin

Americans are concerned that it is
100% likely that Harvard KNEW Obama was a phony,
was uneducated, was not even an American
... but they were paid off greatly $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
and gave him a law degree.


28 posted on 04/15/2025 11:23:11 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: BenLurkin

The national socialist deepstate traitor speaks out. And nobody pays attention.


29 posted on 04/15/2025 11:23:26 AM PDT by Mlheureux
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To: BenLurkin

Obama needs to keep his opinions to himself. A search for Barack Obama shows he was admitted to the Illinois State Bar Association on December 17, 1991, but that he is no longer authorized to practice law. His entry shows under “Illinois Registration Status” that the former president is “Retired - not authorized to practice law or provide pro bono services” and that his last registered year was 2008, the year he was elected president.

So by publically providing information to the college or any political party claiming legal opinions he is violating not being allowed to provide pro bono services as per the determination of his only past bar registration in Illinois. He should be called on it. He has broken the law.

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/fact-check-the-obamas-did-not-surrender-their-law-licenses-because-of-malpracti-idUSKBN238352/

wy69


30 posted on 04/15/2025 11:24:20 AM PDT by whitney69
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To: BenLurkin

He’s as relevant as a junebug in July. The line he crossed was when he went to visit that group of black men and went all condescending scoldy with them.


31 posted on 04/15/2025 11:33:00 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: BenLurkin

Translation: “It’s unlawful not to fund those who hate you.”


32 posted on 04/15/2025 11:34:52 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: BenLurkin

Who asked him?


33 posted on 04/15/2025 11:35:04 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: BenLurkin

So Harvard really isn’t a private university now is it? They should get $0 tax money.


34 posted on 04/15/2025 11:40:30 AM PDT by for-q-clinton
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To: BenLurkin

Right, it’s illegal to stop sending my tax money to Obama’s alma mater 🙄


35 posted on 04/15/2025 11:44:05 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: BenLurkin

Where is it written in the law that a ‘tax exempt’ institution that accepts federal funding while remaining very politically active has the right to federal money without strings?

Harvard’s endowment was >$53 billion last year, but they pay no taxes on their endowment and they can receive securities as ‘gifts’ without tax consequences.

My solution would be to take away their tax exempt status UNLESS they took 10% of that endowment per year ($5.3 billion) and funded free Harvard education online that would require them to give a Harvard degree to anyone who took the courses and passed a standardized test that the rest of the Harvard graduates had to take to ensure proficiency. Then for just 10% tax on their endowment/year anyone who put in the effort and passed the exam could have a Harvard degree.

I guarantee that the average knowledge of Harvard graduates would go up.


36 posted on 04/15/2025 11:44:47 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: BenLurkin

And as a former constitutional law (reader only) shouldn’t he know?

Oh, wait, the IL Bar lifted his license.

Never mind; carry on.


37 posted on 04/15/2025 11:48:50 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: plain talk

Is Chomsky in on any of that gravy?


38 posted on 04/15/2025 11:49:29 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: BenLurkin

Harvard needs the money to teach remedial math to many newly accepted students, but refused to accept thousands of highly qualified Asian and White applicants.


39 posted on 04/15/2025 11:51:53 AM PDT by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: BenLurkin

Who?


40 posted on 04/15/2025 11:51:59 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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