After Trump returned to the White House, the U.S. government significantly cut research funding, causing a major impact on the American scientific research sector. Trump accused this world-renowned university, which ranks highest in the world, of being an "extremely left-wing and anti-Semitic institution" and a "threat to democracy."

On April 21st, Harvard University, the wealthiest institution in the world, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in response to its threat to cut billions of dollars in research funding for the university. This funding cut is part of the government's campaign to target top-tier U.S. universities.

According to AFP reports, Trump posted a long article on his "Truth Social Network," accusing the world's highest-ranked prestigious university of being an "extremely left-wing and anti-Semitic institution" and a "threat to democracy." The Trump administration frequently defends its measures targeting higher education institutions and certain foreign students by accusing them of anti-Semitism.

In an open letter to Trump sent by five Jewish Democratic senators on Thursday, they criticized the government for using the fight against anti-Semitism as a disguised attack on national universities and public schools. Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader of the Senate, wrote: "We oppose the administration's policies to cut university funds and unjustly punish universities because they divert and weaken the fight against anti-Semitism."

Trump called for the dismissal of a lawyer who worked for his company, the Trump Organization, and represented Harvard University. Trump continued: "I hope that my very large and magnificent company, now run by my sons, can immediately get rid of him."

Eric Trump, Trump's son, told CNN that he has parted ways with William Burck, a respected lawyer in Republican circles who was hired as an advisor to the Trump Organization and was commissioned by Harvard University to defend it against attacks from the White House. Harvard and other universities refused to comply with a series of demands from the White House, so they condemned the Trump administration for freezing federal funds on Monday.

The U.S. president criticized universities as breeding grounds for progressive protests and hoped to have a say in student admissions, faculty hiring, and curriculum design. Harvard University led the opposition movement, with other major universities such as Yale and Princeton joining in, and jointly rejected "political interference" in a statement released on Tuesday.

Educational issues are one of the favorite battlegrounds for the American right wing. Trump's offensive against education is not limited to higher education. The U.S. president hopes to dismantle the Department of Education and transfer all authority in this area to the states, which already have significant jurisdiction over educational issues. On Wednesday, he signed a series of new decrees aimed at preventing the spread of progressive ideas in schools.

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