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By ‘settling’ with the Trump administration, they basically threw their students and community under the bus.” Columbia graduate and activist Mahmoud Khalil joins Antonia Hylton on The Beat with Ari Melber to share his reaction to the $200 million settlement between Columbia University and the Trump administration.
There are concerns about how the recent settlement between Columbia University and the Trump administration could impact dozens of other schools under investigation for antisemitism on campus.
For Columbia, the cost of mollifying Trump was steep. Claire Shipman, the university's president, agreed the school would pay a $200 million fine to resolve funding disputes, plus an additional $21 million designated for university employees who said they'd faced discrimination or harm amid campus protests related to the Israel-Hamas war.
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As a real-estate mogul, Trump long ago perfected the art of imposing his will through aggressive — and expensive — legal maneuvering. But no one else has ever really used it as president.
The latest: Today, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) requested the Trump administration give a closed-door briefing on the Jeffrey Epstein case files. More: Schumer criticized the administration’s lack of transparency, and pointed to a Wall Street Journal report that Justice officials told Trump his name was in the files.
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York recommended that President Donald Trump take the fight to “woke” universities next since his first six months as president. York appeared on the Hugh Hewitt Show on Tuesday to offer commentary on Trump’s first six months in office.