Daily Signal Podcast: VDH: Elite Universities Final Cave to Trump

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4.6 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Elite universities know they’re in the wrong. For years, they’ve been: Charging upwards of 60% for “overhead” costs for federal research grants. Blatantly violating the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 Civil Rights ruling barring race-based admissions and hiring practices. Allowing rampant antisemitism on campus. Reliant on international students from illiberal regimes. […]

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0:27.7	information, go to amazon.com.uk.U.K. slash prime. Donald Trump is negotiating with the college
0:33.6	presidents and elite universities, places like Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton,
0:38.4	UC Berkeley.
0:39.3	He apparently wants them to make concessions in order for them to receive federal funds.
0:45.6	They're afraid of their students, they're afraid of their Marxist faculty.
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1:08.5	Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hanson for the Daily Signal.
1:12.5	Donald Trump is negotiating with the college presidents and elite universities in general, places like Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UC Berkeley.
1:24.5	And he apparently wants them to make concessions in order for them to receive federal
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