{"id":446185,"date":"2026-02-03T08:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/446185\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T08:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:13:10","slug":"trump-says-seeking-us1-billion-from-harvard-in-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/446185\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says seeking US$1 billion from Harvard in \u2018damages\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump said on Monday his administration would seek US$1 billion in damages from Harvard University after a New York Times report said the college had won some concessions in ongoing settlement negotiations with the government.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe are now seeking One Billion Dollars in damages, and want nothing further to do, into the future, with Harvard University,\u201d Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump officials have accused Harvard and other colleges of promoting so-called \u201cwoke\u201d ideology while failing to sufficiently protect Jewish students during pro-Palestinian protests, filing legal complaints and demanding exorbitant payouts.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Critics have called it a pressure campaign by the administration on liberal universities.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/8776fb94-a93b-4912-b761-aa8b6414ce06_1980496d.jpg\" title=\"US President Donald Trump. Photo: AP\"\/>US President Donald Trump. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Fellow Ivy League institution Columbia University agreed to pay the Trump administration US$200 million last summer and pledged to obey rules that bar it from taking race into consideration in admissions or hiring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump said on Monday his administration would seek US$1 billion in damages from Harvard University&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,19757,12,20231,96648,101586,19721,3,209728,4637,21,19,22,20,71402,25,24,101585],"class_list":{"0":"post-446185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-columbia-university","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-harvard-university","12":"tag-ivy-league","13":"tag-jewish-students","14":"tag-new-york-times","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-palestinian-protests","17":"tag-truth-social","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-university-of-pennsylvania","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-woke-ideology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}