Trump freezes funds for Harvard. “This is a mockery where the left -wing people work”

Harvard is a mockery, where the left -wing left and should not receive federal funds – said US President Donald Trump on Wednesday. This is another attack on this leading university after freezing over 2 billion dollars of research subsidies.

In the entry published in the morning on the Social Social Trump social networking site, he mentioned a long list of grievances to the university, pointing to his employment of former mayors of New York and Chicago (Bill de Blasio and Lori Lightfoot) and other “Wokeers, radical leftists, idiots and + Students and the so -called +future leaders of “only defeat”.

“Many others, like those of the leftist fools, lectures on Harvard, and this reason Harvard can no longer be considered a decent learning place and should not be taken into account on any list of the best universities or college world.

This is his next attack on a leading American university after Trump's administration froze over $ 2 billion. grants for research at the university. It was a response to the rejection by the University of the University of the White House regarding the change of policy regarding diversity, including the request to accept more students and lecturers with conservative views.

“No government, regardless of which party exercises power, should dictate to private universities, what they can teach, who they can accept and employ, and what areas of study and research they can implement,” wrote Rector Alan Garber in response, claiming that the authorities' demands would deprive a private university of autonomy and constitutional rights.

On Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the White House Karoline Leavitt also said that President Trump was waiting for an apology from the university authorities for tolerating the anti -Semitic behavior of Propalestine demonstrators. Meanwhile, Trump suggested that the university may lose its status of a public benefit institution releasing it from taxes.

As a result of freezing the subsidy, work was suspended on a number of research projects at the university.

A year, Harvard receives about $ 9 billion in the form of subsidies and federal contracts. It makes him the greatest beneficiary of the funds for scientific research.

According to “US News & World Report”, the Harvard perpetual fund, of $ 50.7 billion, makes it the richest university in America. His financial force is also based on the donations of graduates, lucrative research grants and valuable real estate.

From Washington Oskar Górzyński (PAP)

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