The Official President Trump Thread - Second Term Edition

lol, UFC is awesome and nothing like you described. Good Lord, it's ok to like something even if a guy you didn't vote for, or a guy who voted for a guy you didn't vote for, also likes it. I swear libs are so....immature.

 

The ship has sailed over the concept of respecting people who cheer and defend Donald Trump still to this day because that means you are cheering the dismantling of our basic civil liberties like speech and due process.

You are an enemy of the people if you support Trump still

 

Trumps wants to send American citizens to brutal El Salvadorian prisons. What could go wrong?

 

@Nook the europeans are giving their staff burner devices cuz they dont trust us

 

Depressing - but I cannot blame them for having that fear based on what we have already seen.

When people are being sent without any due process to third world prisons - and then not returned when the SCOTUS says to return them, it is a massive red flag.

 

I think that all of the yearly physicals done on presidents are basicly a dog and pony show on both sides.

 

[Politico] Harvard University rejects Trump administration demands to change policies

The university notified the administration that it will not comply with the list of demands, putting $9B at risk.

Harvard University is rejecting Trump administration demands to adopt policy and curriculum changes to keep billions in federal grants, saying it would not accept requirements that violate its constitutional rights.

Harvard President Alan M. Garber said in a statement Monday that the unprecedented demands, which include requirements to change disciplinary policies to address antisemitic acts during last year’s protests over the Israel-Hamas war, are unnecessary and infringe on its free speech rights.

“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 in the message to the campus community.

Harvard’s response, in the face of a threat of losing $9 billion in federal grants, represents a rare show of resistance to efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to punish major institutions and law firms he views as hostile.

The loss of federal funding would deal a significant blow to Harvard and affiliated institutions, such as Mass General Brigham and Boston Children’s Hospital. Other schools, including Columbia University, have opted to accept administration demands to avoid the cuts.

Institutions across the country are facing probes focusing on diversity initiatives and allegations of antisemitism on campus. Trump has particularly singled out Ivy League schools that he has denounced as left-leaning and elitist. The administration has said it is also either reviewing or pausing grants to Brown, Princeton, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania.

Princeton President Chris Eisgruber, like the leader of Harvard, has said he would resist administration demands.

Former Harvard President Larry Summers told a group of students and alumni last week that the school is positioned to resist because of its nearly $52 billion endowment. “With all of those assets — If Harvard can’t resist, who can?” he said.

The administration sent an updated list of demands Friday to Harvard that would require the university to restructure its governance, eliminate diversity as a consideration in admissions, institute new disciplinary measures for student protesters, and decertify pro-Palestinian student groups. Garber said the school had already adopted measures to address antisemitism and other misconduct that occurred during raucous protests over the war in Gaza.

“The administration’s prescription goes beyond the power of the federal government,” he said. “It violates Harvard’s First Amendment rights and exceeds the statutory limits of the government’s authority under Title VI. And it threatens our values as a private institution devoted to the pursuit, production, and dissemination of knowledge.”

White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said in a statement that the administration was seeking to end “unchecked” antisemitism and that Harvard’s response puts its federal funding in jeopardy.

“Harvard or any institution that wishes to violate Title VI is, by law, not eligible for federal funding,” Fields said.

The letter the administration sent Friday — from the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services and General Services Administration — accused Harvard of failing to “live up to both the intellectual and civil rights conditions that justify federal investment.”

Harvard’s response to the administration defended the university’s commitment to fighting antisemitism on campus, and said the administration disregards” the changes already made by the university. The university’s lawyers said the demands “invade university freedoms” long recognized by the Supreme Court.

“The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,” the lawyers wrote in response. “Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government.”
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Thanks for the post.
I wonder how many Harvard grads work and hold high positions within this administration.
Would be tough to yank funds from your Alma mater.
JD Vance is Yale.
Hmmmm.

 

1/3 of the supreme court are big Harvard alumni.

 

Everyone has chosen sides.

Social Cons didn't want politics in the NFL or NBA, and they still bm about it saying they don't watch because of it rather than a declining product.

 

In 2015, Trump had the doctor state that he "would be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency".

BOWF SIDEZ

 

And Princeton and Stanford have expressed their support for Harvard taking a stand. Any private university that wants to be taken seriously needs to lock arms with Harvard right now. The research conducted at these universities drive innovation across all fields. Medicine, science, tech, law, economics, the arts, and on and on … none of these fields would be where they are without leading contributions from our top private universities. One of the reasons that the US is (or was) the envy of the world is the opportunity to come here and obtain the highest education and better yourself. Attacking our top universities is an attack on the country itself. Pure vanity by Trump. And Trumpers hate these top universities because they hate education, knowledge, science, tech, law, economics. Hell, they hate facts.

In the same way, this country’s top law firms need to lock arms and go scorched earth against the Trump administrations unconstitutional EOs against them. Susman Godfrey, the best litigators in the country, are fighting back and winning. I’ve worked with those guys in the highest stakes litigation and they absolutely will not back down. They took down Fox News in the Dominion Voting machines defamation case and will not stop. Wilmer Hale, Perkins Coie and Jenner Block also standing up against Trump and for the Constitution and rule of law. These firms can and will run circles around the DoJ.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/busin...trumps-executive-order-against-susman-godfrey

 

If the President does it, it is not illegal -- President Dick Nixon

 

New York Times:

‘Alien Enemies’ or Innocent Men? Inside Trump’s Rushed Effort to Deport 238 Migrants

The Trump administration sent them to a prison in El Salvador under a wartime act, calling them members of a Venezuelan gang. But a New York Times investigation found little evidence of criminal backgrounds or links to the gang.

Yet most of the men do not have criminal records in the United States or elsewhere in the region, beyond immigration offenses, a New York Times investigation has found. And very few of them appear to have any clear, documented links to the Venezuelan gang.

As they were being expelled, the detainees repeatedly begged officials to explain why they were being deported, and where they were being taken, one of their lawyers told the courts. At no point, the lawyer said, did officers indicate that the men were being sent to El Salvador or that they were removed under the Alien Enemies Act.

The Alien Enemies Act gives the U.S. government broad powers to detain people during times of war, but Supreme Court rulings make clear that detainees have a right to challenge the government, and are entitled to a hearing, before their removal.

Last month, an appeals court judge criticized the lack of due process under the Trump administration. “Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemy Act,” said Judge Patricia Millett.​

 

Bro, it is who you know ...

 

How long will it take Trump to declare Democrats a "terrorist" organization forcing him to take "emergency" action?

This is hyperbolic but not far from the truth.

 

How long before Mad King Don declares that the three separate but equal branches of government is a misreading of the US Constitution?