“An A$$hole Factory” - Bill Maher TORCHES Harvard Ties To CCP & Defends Trump
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🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Trump targets Harvard for CCP ties as reports reveal Chinese elites trained at its Kennedy School. Rubio tightens visa rules while Harvard faces backlash from all sides, with critics blasting its tax breaks, free speech issues, and foreign influence.
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| 0:00.0 | Harvard University of particular is Kennedy School of Government has been a key destination for Chinese Communist Party officials earning the nickname Party School in China. |
| 0:06.2 | As noted in 2014, Shankai Observer Commentary, if we were to rank the Chinese Communist Party's overseas party schools, the one deserving top spot has to be Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in the U.S. |
| 0:21.0 | The Trump administration led by Mark Rube be announced by Wednesday a plan to tighten visa |
| 0:25.4 | criteria for Chinese students with Communist Party ties, potentially revoking visas for those |
| 0:29.8 | in critical fields, prompting Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman mounding to state |
| 0:34.9 | seriously damaged the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese students. |
| 0:38.3 | Go ahead, Rob. |
| 0:39.5 | Meanwhile, as the Trump administration works to cap Harvard's foreign enrollment, |
| 0:43.4 | a new Wall Street Journal report outlines how much the university has become a training ground |
| 0:47.9 | for CCP leadership, all on the American taxpayers' dime. |
| 0:52.6 | The list goes on and on. |
| 0:53.9 | You have a former vice president, a former vice premier, the country's current top trade negotiator. |
| 0:59.8 | They have all passed through Harvard's elite programs. |
| 1:03.2 | According to the report, they affectionately call it their, quote, party school and not the party like the fraternity. |
| 1:09.5 | It's raising serious questions about how much |
| 1:12.0 | influence Beijing has gained inside our own institutions. Okay, Tom, your thoughts on this. |
| 1:20.4 | So my first thought is this. Brendan, what's up? I tell you, listen, over the next 10 years, |
| 1:26.9 | this is what I want to do. |
| 1:28.0 | I want you to get 20 of our best and brightest students, and I want to get them into universities in Beijing. |
| 1:36.3 | And I want them to study foreign policy over there. |
| 1:38.4 | And I want them to, you know, assimilate with classmates and get really close to people. |
| 1:44.7 | And really what we're going to do is a shadow spy network. |
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