Incompetence or a fabricated retreat? With this administration, both are entirely possible.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/business/trump-harvard-letter-mistake.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/business/trump-harvard-letter-mistake.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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They are just rampaging through everything and everyone to see how many things they can knock down or take over.
If something doesn’t collapse or fall, it’s not worth a protracted battle.
Stand firm and the people will back you.
So …the mistake was sending it too soon? 🙄😂
you get
when you put a
convicted felon
in charge.
The most important is the autocratic push behind the letter: Harvard was labeled guilty of a number of accusations, with no proof or formal procedure, with some of them related to… 1/
Ups, all was a mistake!!
2/
Typical behavior in autocratic regimes: some officials take action allegedly in the name of the infallible chief. If thereafter there are negative unintended consequences for the chief, he never authorized it. The individuals who took the action… 3/
I expect no accountability in this case for the fanatics who signed that Harvard vomitive letter.
Maybe the fascists will blame and fire a long standing public servant who had no involvement with it.
That’s how fascists behave.
4/4
Big question: why was the email created in the first place? The intent was obviously there, so nothing else matters.
What is more likely than not, is 47 and his gaggle of white people aren’t ‘the best’ authoritarians.
#FAFO
Trump to Harvard: It was all a misunderstanding.
#StandUpToBullies
Or
This letter will look really bad in court. Let’s disclaim it.
Or ….
Where they for their head handed to them
In court. The WH would be empty.