Now we know: The Trump administration is investigating UC Berkeley for its failure to disclose foreign funding from China. Donor records obtained by our Alana Goodman provide a window into why that might be: Berkeley received sizable donations “from a blacklisted Chinese research university, Chinese Communist Party officials, and a Beijing state-owned chemical company.”
One donor is the University of Science and Technology of China, which landed on a U.S. sanctions list for attempting to steal American quantum technology. Another is Vincent Cheung Sai Sing, “a longtime member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference for Shanghai City, an advisory body to the Chinese Communist Party.”
Berkeley provided the records only after the Trump administration launched its probe—before that, Berkeley stonewalled the request for months.
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Crime pays: Harvard Law School student Ibrahim Bharmal is just days removed from being ordered to complete 80 hours of community service and attend an anger management class over the assault of an Israeli classmate. His reward? A $65,000 Harvard Law Review scholarship.
That’s according to Ira Stoll of The Editors, who reported Thursday that Bharmal is one of this year’s recipients of the Harvard Law Review Fellowship, a program that awards “recent Harvard Law School graduates” with a $65,000 stipend to fund their work “in a public-interest related role at a government agency or nonprofit organization.” Bharmal, a Harvard Law Review editor, will work… wait for it… at the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
A “faculty committee interviews the finalists to select fellows,” according to a fellowship advertisement reviewed by the Free Beacon‘s Collin Anderson, “indicating Harvard faculty members signed off on Bharmal as a recipient.”
“The move comes at a tumultuous time for both the Harvard Law Review and Harvard Law School,” writes Anderson. The Trump administration is probing both entities over internal documents, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, that show editors at Harvard Law Review use race to select both editors and articles for publication. At least one private attorney, former Texas solicitor general Jonathan Mitchell, plans to sue the journal over the practice, ordering its editors on Friday to preserve documents that he plans to subpoena.
READ MORE: Harvard Law Review Awards $65k Fellowship to Student Charged in Assault of Israeli Classmate: Report
The cackle queen returns: Kamala Harris gave a paid speech to a group of Democratic activists in San Francisco, where she did what she does best: recite “bland talking points about the importance of ‘we the people,'” our Andrew Stiles writes. Harris mostly attacked Donald Trump for sowing “fear,” punishing “truth tellers,” and ushering America into a “high-velocity event where a vessel is being used for the swift implementation of an agenda that has been decades in the making,” whatever that means.
Kamala’s signature cackle came out later in the speech, when she “requested permission to ‘digress for a moment’ and asked members of the audience if they had seen ‘that video from a couple weeks ago, the one of the elephants at the San Diego Zoo during the earthquake,’ urging those who had not to ‘Google it.'” It shows the elephants huddling into what CBC News described as an “alert circle.” Harris said that video described her thinking since she lost to Trump. Huh?
“It is presumed that Harris’s speaking fee for the Emerge America event was several times the U.S. median income of roughly $80,000,” writes Stiles. “Tickets to the event itself ran as high as $50,000, while those watching via livestream had to fork over $25 for a ‘digital ticket.’ The address was billed as Harris’s ‘most extensive’ public remarks since the election.”
READ MORE: Kamala Cackles Back at Trump
Away from the Beacon:
- Renaissance man: With Mike Waltz moving over to U.N. ambassador, and Marco Rubio taking his place on an interim basis, Rubio is now: Secretary of State, National Security Adviser, acting USAID administrator, and acting archivist.
- Sign of the times: “Luigi the Musical,” a play not about Mario’s brother but rather the cold-blooded killer of a father of two, is set to start in San Francisco.
- Get your popcorn ready: Joe Biden will conduct his first interview since leaving the White House next Thursday live on The View. Jill Biden, the nation’s first female president, will be at his side.
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