Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about Trump claiming the Harvard letter was a mistake,

and not in the way we think it was a mistake.

In a move that most are reading as Trump surrendering to Harvard,

Trump administration officials are suggesting that the letter that sparked

a massive confrontation between Ivy League schools in the White House was just a great big oops-a-dazy.

According to reports, the April 11th letter that made a list of demands was unauthorized.

This claim was made after Harvard publicly and forcefully

rejected the demands. The letter was on official letterhead and was signed by Josh Grunbaum,

the commissioner of the General Services Administration, Sean R. Kebney, the acting general

counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services,

and Thomas Wheeler, the Acting General Counsel of the Department of Education.

The response from a Harvard spokesperson was polite, with a hint of skepticism.

Quote, the letter that Harvard received on Friday, April 11, was signed by

three federal officials, placed on official letterhead, and was sent from the email inbox of a senior

federal official, and was sent on April 11 as promised. Recipients of such correspondence from the U.S. government, even when it

contains sweeping demands that are astonishing in their overreach, do not question its authenticity

or seriousness. They went on, quote, it remains unclear to us us exactly what among the government's recent words and

deeds were mistakes, or what the government actually meant to do and say. But even if the letter

was a mistake, the actions the government took this week have real life consequences on students,

patients, employees, and the standing of American higher

education in the world. If the current explanation from White House Insiders is to be believed,

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