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President Donald Trump conceded an "automatic loss" in the Harvard federal funding case before Judge Allison D. Burroughs even ruled on Monday.

Trump posted to social media, "The Harvard case was just tried in Massachusetts before an Obama appointed Judge. She is a TOTAL DISASTER, which I say even before hearing her Ruling. She has systematically taken over the various Harvard cases, and is an automatic 'loss' for the People of our Country!"

Harvard sued the Trump administration for withholding $2.6 billion in federal funds as punishment for allegedly allowing antisemitism to run rampant on campus....

Harvard University claimed it would not “negotiate over its independence or its constitutional rights" as it turned down the Trump administration's demands that it end its DEI programming and limit student protests in exchange for $9 billion in federal funding, according to new reporting in Bloomberg.

In a letter to the Department of Education, the school's lawyers wrote that “neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government."

"Harvard remains open to dialogue about what the university has done, and is planning to do, to improve the experience of every member of its community," the letter read. "But Harvard is not prepared to agree to demands that go beyond the lawful authority of this or any administration."...

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's senior adviser insisted on Sunday that it was "not fair to say" that his boss wanted to defund Planned Parenthood just because he intends to strip the organization of all federal funding.