More pain for Harvard: Citing two recent Washington Free Beacon reports, the Trump administration on Tuesday announced it is cutting another $450 million in federal grants from Harvard University, this time citing both the school’s continued racial discrimination as well as its lackluster approach to combating anti-Semitism.
“Harvard University has repeatedly failed to confront the pervasive race discrimination and anti-Semitic harassment plaguing its campus,” the Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism wrote in a statement. It added that “Jewish students were subjected to pervasive insults, physical assault, and intimidation, with no meaningful response from Harvard’s leadership.”
The $450 million in terminated grants follows the $2.2 billion slashed from Harvard last week.
The Free Beacon reports highlighted by the Justice Department’s task force “revealed a pattern of what the department called ‘endemic race discrimination’ at the Harvard Law Review,” writes our Matthew Xiao. One pulled back the curtain on the pervasive racial discrimination at work when it comes to selecting members of the law review and the authors it publishes, the other revealed that a $65,000 fellowship funded by the law review went to an anti-Israel radical accused of assaulting his Israeli classmate.
READ MORE: Trump Administration To Cut Additional $450 Million in Grants to Harvard, Citing Free Beacon Reports
Rollin’ Joe: A forthcoming book from Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson reveals that by 2023, Joe Biden’s physical condition had declined so severely that aides privately discussed whether he might need a wheelchair if he won a second term. “There were internal discussions about putting the president in a wheelchair, but they couldn’t do so until after the election,” Tapper and Thompson write in Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.
As our Andrew Stiles notes, “Biden met often with elite historians who compared him to Franklin D. Roosevelt, who also required a wheelchair to get around.”
The president’s physician, Kevin O’Connor, reportedly warned that “a wheelchair might be necessary” if Biden suffered another fall like the one at the Air Force Academy in June 2023, when he tripped over a sandbag. That possibility was seen as “politically untenable” while Biden remained a candidate, so aides scrambled to limit his movement and reduce the risk of another fall.
Another sign of the lengths the White House went to in order to conceal Biden’s condition: The “significant spinal arthritis” behind his now-characteristic rigid gait was a major concern for O’Connor. “But that’s not what White House aides were telling reporters in 2024. They insisted that Biden was struggling to walk because he refused to wear a walking boot after fracturing his foot in November 2020 while playing with Major, one of his feral dogs,” Stiles writes.
That’s the physical side of things, of course. When will we get to the mental decline?
READ MORE: Rollin’ Joe: Democrats Plotted Wheelchair Presidency for Biden’s Second Term
Unprecedented sanctions: The Trump administration on Monday sanctioned three senior Iranian scientists “for their work advancing the Islamic Republic’s atomic weapons program,” our Adam Kredo reports. All three work for SPND, the regime’s primary nuclear weaponization agency, and conducted research on “nuclear explosive devices” and “missiles capable of delivering such weapons,” according to the State Department.
The administration also targeted Iran’s Fuya Pars Prospective Technologists, an “SPND-affiliated company that has attempted to procure from foreign suppliers, as well as indigenously fabricate, equipment that could be applicable in nuclear weapons research and development.”
“Monday’s designations are the latest in a bevy of sanctions against Iran but the first from the Trump administration to target the scientists behind Iran’s march toward a nuclear bomb,” Kredo writes.
“Iran continues to substantially expand its nuclear program and carry out dual-use research and development activities applicable to nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons delivery systems,” the State Department said, noting that “Iran is the only country in the world without nuclear weapons that is producing uranium enriched to 60 percent.”
READ MORE: Trump Admin Targets Iranian Nuclear Scientists in New Round of Sanctions
Away from the Beacon:
- Asked whether he was “being straight” with Americans in June 2024 when he described then-President Joe Biden as “in command and impressive,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sidestepped the question. “We’re just looking forward,” he said. We’ll bet he is.
- Constituents in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D., N.Y.) district told the New York Post they’re fed up with their “absentee” congresswoman, accusing her of chasing national fame while ignoring local concerns like traffic, safety, and housing. “This woman has done nothing for the community she was once again elected to serve,” said Lauro Vazquez of Woodside, Queens.
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