HOWIE CARR IS TOO STUPID TO GET INTO HARVARD, SO INSTEAD BABBLES
NONSENSE! HE'S TOO LAZY & TOO UNINFORMED TO RESEARCH THE ISSUES....
WHICH IS ALWAYS THE CASE!
DO YOU EVEN COMPREHEND THE MEDICAL RESEARCH THAT WAS BEING DONE?
OF COURSE NOT! TOO LAZY TO INVESTIGATE!
HAVE YOU EVEN REVIEW THE MINDLESS & ILLEGAL MANDATES THAT TRUMP SOUGHT TO IMPOSE?
IT'S CALLED FASCISM! IT'S INCLUDED IN PROJECT 2025 - HAVE YOU READ IT?
THE BLOVIATOR JUST BABBLES & TOO MANY LAZY THINKERS EMBRACE THE
BABBLE FROM THE BOSTON HERALD PROPAGANDA RAG!
THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS....BUT YOU'D NEVER KNOW IT FROM THE
BLOVIATORS!
TRUMP WANTS TO SILENCE THE FIRST AMENDMENT---HAVE YOU EVER LOOKED IT
UP? TRUMP WANTS TO SILENCE FREE SPEECH...YOU DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM
WITH THAT? TRUMP WANTS TO SILENCE ANYONE WHOSE OPINION DIFFERS
FROM HIS IGNORANT RANTS....
HIGHER EDUCATION SEEMS TO ENFORCE CRITICAL THINKING ABILITIES THAT
ARE ABSENT AMONG POORLY EDUCATED PEOPLE....INCLUDING THE BLOVIATORS!
TRUMP COULDN'T READ THE CONSTITUTION!
THAT DEFINES STUPID! HAVE YOU READ IT?
Trump Struggled to Read the Constitution, Said It Was ‘Like a Foreign Language’: Book
President Donald Trump struggled to read through a passage of the U.S. Constitution while filming a documentary produced by Alexandra Pelosi, according to a recent book written by Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig.
While seemingly self-inflicted, Trump tended to blame those missteps on others in the room with him—including the film crew.
“You know, your paper was making a lot of noise,” Trump complained of the script. “It’s tough enough.”
The following excerpt from A Very Stable Genius details an extended bit of grousing:
With LED lights on stilts in front of him, Trump took his seat. “You’re lucky you got the easy part,” Pelosi told him cheerfully. “It gets complicated after this.” But the president stumbled, trying to get out the words in the arcane, stilted form the founding fathers had written. Trump grew irritated. “It’s very hard to do because of the language here,” Trump told the crew. “It’s very hard to get through that whole thing without a stumble.” He added, “It’s like a different language, right?” The cameraman tried to calm Trump, telling him it was no big deal, to take a moment and start over. Trump tried again, but again remarked, “It’s like a foreign language.”
Pelosi, daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had set up the reading as part of a documentary titled The Words That Built America—which the book describes as a “conceit” premised on the idea that America’s “founding documents remained a unifying force for the nation’s factions” in the aftermath of the relatively ugly and decidedly divisive 2016 presidential election. Filming occurred in the White House Blue Room some six weeks after Trump was sworn in on the same document he reportedly struggled to read.
Former acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal described the president’s apparent lack of familiarity with the nation’s founding charter as “meta.” Trump has been denounced and condemned by critics of various ideological stripes throughout his political career for disrespecting and ignoring the U.S. Constitution in word and in deed.
Katyal’s commentary suggests a self-referential and personally-reinforcing feedback loop undergirding Trump’s disdain for constitutional competence and diligence.
Law&Crime previously reported on another controversial—and arguably more substantive—excerpt from the same book. According to Rucker and Leonnig, Trump pressured his former secretary of state Rex Tillerson to devise a workaround for and assault on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act—the U.S. federal law which prohibits American businesses from bribing their way into the graces of potential foreign clientele.
CORRUPT & BRAIN DEAD PAM BONDI WAS A FOREIGN AGENT & IMMEDIATELY DISBANDED ENFORCEMENT:
Misconduct Laws
“It’s just so unfair that American companies aren’t allowed to pay bribes to get business overseas,” Trump reportedly said. “We’re going to change that.”
Trump, of course, has already rubbished the book.
”Another Fake Book by two third rate Washington Post reporters, has already proven to be inaccurately reported, to their great embarrassment, all for the purpose of demeaning and belittling a President who is getting great things done for our Country, at a record clip,” the president tweeted over the weekend. “Thank you!”
The 45th president’s apparent stumbling over constitutional verbiage, however, is said to be on film. So, take those slams against the authors with a margarita rim’s worth of salt in this instance. And, for what it’s worth, Trump was eventually able to cut his segment once through without mangling the words.
Again the Rucker-Leonnig book:
“Every time he stumbled, he manufactured something to blame people,” another person in the room recalled. “He never said, ‘Sorry, I’m messing this up.’ [Other] people would screw up and say, ‘Ohhhh, I’m sorry.’ They would be self-effacing. He was making up excuses and saying there were distracting sounds.… He was definitely blaming everyone for his inability to get through it. That was prickly, or childish.” Though stiff, he eventually made it through without any errors.
[image via screengrab/C-SPAN]
Obama Comes Out Swinging Against Trump’s ‘Ham-Handed’ Harvard Demands
TRUMP'S MANDATES ARE ILLEGAL & INTENDED TO CONTROL EDUCATION BY MANDATING A MONITOR! THE MORE YOU UNDERSTAND, THE MORE IRRATIONAL TRUMP'S RANTS ARE!
Alan Garber, the president of Harvard, announced on Monday that the university would not allow the federal government to regulate what happens on campus.
“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” he wrote in a statement published on the Harvard University website.
He added that the demands made clear “that the intention is not to work with us to address antisemitism in a cooperative and constructive manner.”
“Although some of the demands outlined by the government are aimed at combating antisemitism, the majority represent direct governmental regulation of the ‘intellectual conditions’ at Harvard,” Garber added.
Feds pull more than $2 billion in funding after Harvard rejects 'unprecedented' demands by Trump administration
Harvard's president said Monday the school will not agree to demands pushed by the Trump administration as a condition for maintaining nearly $9 billion in federal funding. Hours later, the administration's antisemitism task force said it will freeze $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in multi-year contracts to the institution.
Harvard President Alan Garber told the campus community that lawyers for the school informed the Trump administration that Harvard "will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights" by adopting the changes to its admissions and hiring processes, student disciple and certain areas of study that the federal government ordered.
“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Garber wrote.
The federal government's Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism issued a statement Monday night saying it would freeze some funding because Harvard refused to adopt its demands.
"Harvard’s statement today reinforces the troubling entitlement mindset that is endemic in our nation's most prestigious universities and colleges — that federal investment does not come with the responsibility to uphold civil rights laws," the statement read.
“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach."
Alan Garber
President Trump, in a post on Truth Social, suggested on Tuesday that Harvard should lose its tax-exempt status, as well.
“Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting “Sickness?” Remember, Tax Exempt Status is totally contingent on acting in the PUBLIC INTEREST!” he posted.
Democratic lawmakers quickly came to Harvard's defense, applauding the university for rejecting the Trump administration's demands.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren in a statement Tuesday said she supports Harvard's "efforts to fight back" and encourages more universities to do so.
“We invest in education and scientific research to build a stronger country and thriving democracy," she wrote. "President Trump’s threats against universities are lawless, and denying funding for the next medical breakthrough will make us all poorer and worse off. Cutting research for cancer or heart disease does not help anyone."
Gov. Maura Healey weighed in on Harvard's stance earlier Monday. She extended her "congratulations and gratitude" to the school's leadership for "standing against the Trump Administration's brazen attempt to bully schools and weaponize the U.S. Department of Justice under the false pretext of civil rights."
"We all agree that antisemitism has no place in America and that it should be fought in the workplace, classrooms and everywhere," Healey said in a statement. "Complying with the Trump Administration's dangerous demands would have made us all less safe and less free."
Former President Barack Obama also posted on social media Monday, before the federal administration announced the funding cuts, applauding Harvard.
"Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions – rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking concrete steps to make sure all students at Harvard can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect."
Earlier this month, the federal government threatened pulling funding and contracts that would decimate research efforts across the institution and its affiliates if the school didn't eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programming and cooperate with law enforcement officials. And then late Friday, the task force sent an updated, and much more specific, set of demands to Garber and the Harvard Corporation that the administration said would help combat antisemitism on campus.
“The administration’s prescription goes beyond the power of the federal government,” Garber wrote Monday. “It violates Harvard’s First Amendment rights and exceeds the statutory limits of the government’s authority under Title VI.”
Harvard is the first major university to publicly push back against the Trump administration's orders. Last month, Columbia University found itself in a similar situation and acquiesced to the demands.
In his message to the school community, Garber linked to the feds' updated list of demands, as well as Harvard attorneys' response to the government.
He urged the community to read the feds' letter “to gain a fuller understanding of the unprecedented demands being made by the federal government” against Harvard.
Friday's list of demands expanded upon a prior, vaguer list. Federal officials have requested an audit of all faculty hiring and admissions data starting August through at least the end of 2028, as well as audits to ensure "viewpoint diversity." The list includes a review of programs the feds claim "most fuel antisemitic harassment or reflect ideological capture," and singles out a number of schools and centers including the Divinity School, Graduate School of Education, School of Public Health and Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
The administration also demanded that Harvard "reform its recruitment, screening and admissions" of international students by August and “immediately report” to authorities any student who “commits a conduct violation."
On protest matters, the federal government ordered "a comprehensive mask ban," the "meaningful discipline" of pro-Palestinian student protesters, plus the expulsion of Harvard graduate students involved in the Oct. 18, 2023 confrontation during a pro-Palestinian protest.
The demand letter was signed by officials from the General Services Administration, Health and Human Services and Department of Education.
“This was a historic moment for Harvard where they had to look and say how will we be remembered in history."
Ryan Enos
In his message, Garber reiterated that the university has taken steps to address antisemitism on campus, and "plan to do much more." But he said the majority of these demands “represent direct governmental regulation of the 'intellectual conditions' at Harvard.”
“We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement," Garber wrote. “The University will not negotiate over its independence or its constitutional rights.” Later on Monday afternoon, Garber's letter on the Harvard website was edited to read, "The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights." A Harvard spokesman did not immediately respond to request for comment on why it changed the language.
The letter to the federal government was signed by D.C.-based attorneys for the firms Quinn Emanuel and King & Spalding. That letter said the school is "open to dialogue" with the federal administration about measures it has already taken to address the campus experience and future steps.
In an interview, Harvard government professor Ryan Enos applauded Harvard’s response.
“This was a historic moment for Harvard where they had to look and say how will we be remembered in history," he told WBUR. "And at this moment they've done the right thing and the importance of that cannot be overstated."
Nikolas Bowie, the secretary-treasurer of the Harvard faculty chapter of the American Association of University Professors and a Harvard law professor, also praised the university response.
"I'm really grateful for Harvard's leadership to stepping up and recognizing that so long as the Trump administration is going to make unlawful demands of American universities, there's no limit to what it can demand, and therefore, the only rational response is to say, see you in court," he said.
On Friday, the Harvard AAUP chapter filed a lawsuit in federal court to block the administration's review of the school's federal funding, alleging the investigation impinges on free speech and academic freedom on campus.
This article was originally published on April 14, 2025.
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