PDS 4.15 Trump's Harvard Problem Just Got Bigger, Disturbing ICE News, & Big Tate, Diddy, Weinstein Updates

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🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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0:00.0	Harvard's now fighting back against Donald Trump, refusing to give in to his intimidation and demands,
0:04.8	and the president's now threatening to go even further than the $2.2 billion he already froze.
0:09.5	ICE arrested a Columbia student at his appointment for citizenship and what many are calling retaliation for his advocacy for Palestinians.
0:15.5	You've got huge Andrew Tate, Diddy, and Weinstein legal updates that could change a lot.
0:19.7	And then a good news story to help keep you
0:21.4	sane. We're talking about all that and much more on today's brand new Philip DeFranco show you
0:25.5	daily dive into the news, how it's being covered and how people are reacting to it, starting with
0:29.9	this. Harvard is now fighting back against President Trump refusing to give into his demands,
0:34.4	and they are quite literally paying the price for it. Because the federal government just froze about $2.2 billion in multi-year grants as the rip between the university
0:42.2	and the president has grown. Which, you know, is an insane amount of money, even for a school
0:45.5	like Harvard, which is already well-funded and would mean shutting down entire research teams and
0:49.8	programs. Right. And this, after the Trump administration demanded that Harvard de-platform certain speakers, ban masks at campus protests, defund pro-Palestinian groups, and do a check to make sure that no other faculty members plagiarized.
1:00.0	With that last one, probably there because Harvard's former president was forced to resign after plagiarism accusations.
1:05.0	Though obviously, all of this is on top of Trump's normal anti-D-EI crusade, kind of. You see, in the past, the administration has come out
1:11.6	as solidly anti-diversity, but in its letter to Harvard,
1:14.3	it's now pushing for some diversity.
1:16.2	Saying, quote, every department or field
1:18.0	found to lack viewpoint diversity must be reformed
1:20.9	by hiring a critical mass of new faculty
1:23.3	within the department or fields who will provide viewpoint diversity.
1:26.3	Every teaching unit found to lack viewpoint diversity must be reformed by admitting a critical mass of students who will provide viewpoint diversity.
1:33.3	AKA, they want conservatives to be the new diversity hires and demand that the school audits for this.
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