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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....

President Donald Trump's desire to punish Harvard University at all costs for defying him on MAGA culture issues is causing headaches among Wall Street's private equity firms and hedge funds, according to a report in The New York Post.

In addition to barring the Ivy League university from admitting international students, Trump has pulled billions of dollars in federal funding and is seeking to cancel contracts the school negotiated with the federal government.

"On The Money's" Charles Gasparino, a Fox Business reporter, claimed that Trump's retaliation has Wall Street investors predicting "a huge hit to their businesses."...

President Donald Trump's dealings with everything from Ukraine to Ivy League universities amount to blatant extortion, Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker wrote Friday.

"Trump isn’t a dealmaker; he is closer to an extortionist," Parker wrote. "At least he meets the definition of the term: someone who uses coercion or punishment to get what he wants."

Parker explained how Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's "first lesson in the art of the deal" came in 2019, "when Trump essentially threatened to withhold $400 million in military aid if Zelensky didn’t investigate — or at least say he was investigating — Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine."...

A special correspondent with The Daily Beast connected President Donald Trump's first New York real-estate deal in the 1970s to his desire to punish Harvard University today for defying his authority.

According to writer Michael Daly, the common link between the two episodes is the billionaire Pritzker family; Jay Pritzker ran afoul of Trump when the two entered into an ill-fated partnership to manage New York's Hyatt Hotel in 1975, while niece Penny Pritzker currently serves as Harvard's most senior member on its board of governors.

Trump vowed revenge on the Pritzkers for asking him to pay his part to upgrade the hotel "at a time when [Trump's] dependence on junk bonds and outsized sense of his own brilliance in other projects had left him at the brink of ruin," Daly wrote. "He narrowly escaped and revealed a taste for revenge that has become familiar to many of us in recent days." ...

Notable Harvard alumni applauded their university Monday after news that the Ivy League school would not capitulate to the Trump administration's anti-DEI initiatives for $9 billion in federal funding.

Trump threatened to pull the $9 billion if Harvard did not do away with their diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, or crack down on student protests like the pro-Palestinian demonstrations against the continued retaliatory bombing of Gaza.

The university released a statement saying, "The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government." ...

(Reuters) - Former Harvard President Claudine Gay said she received emailed death threats and was called the "N-word" countless times prior to resigning after her congressional testimony on antisemitism and plagiarism allegations. Gay made the comments in a New York Times opinion piece on Wednesday, a day after she yielded to pressure from Harvard's Jewish community and members of Congress to step down over the Dec. 5 congressional hearing and allegations about her academic work. "My character and intelligence have been impugned. My commitment to fighting antisemitism has been questioned. My i......