Trump Seeks $1 Billion Damages from Harvard

President Donald Trump announced late Monday on his Truth Social platform that his administration intends to seek $1 billion in damages from Harvard University, escalating an ongoing dispute over the institution's policies and federal funding. The statement came in response to a report indicating that the administration had withdrawn a previous demand for a $200 million payment as part of settlement talks with the Ivy League school in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In his post, Trump described Harvard as having engaged in "serious and heinous illegalities" and criticized a proposed job training program as inadequate. "They wanted to do a convoluted job training concept, but it was turned down in that it was wholly inadequate and would not have been, in our opinion, successful," Trump wrote. "It was merely a way of Harvard getting out of a large cash settlement of more than 500 Million Dollars, a number that should be much higher." He added that the matter should be treated as a criminal rather than civil case and vowed to pursue it until "justice is served." Trump also targeted Harvard President Alan Garber, stating that Garber "has done a terrible job of rectifying a very bad...