It Looks Like Trump's White House Lied to NYT About Harvard Deal

[Eugene]

Source: The New Republic

It Looks Like Trump’s White House Lied to NYT About Harvard Deal

Robert McCoy
Mon, August 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM EDT
1 min read

A new report from Harvard’s student newspaper suggests that Trump administration officials planted a lie in The New York Times about the university capitulating to the president.

The Times reported last Monday that Harvard has “signaled a willingness” to shell out up to $500 million to settle with the Trump administration, which accuses the university of being “run” by “antisemitism and DEI.” The story, based on “four people familiar with the negotiations,” seemingly detailed a prominent domino falling as Ivy League universities and other institutions increasingly submit to the president’s shakedowns.

But reporting by The Harvard Crimson cuts against the Times’ story and even suggests that it may have been based on misinformation propagated by Trump’s team.

Citing anonymous Harvard faculty members, the Crimson reported Sunday that President Alan Garber told others that it’s “false” that the university is considering a $500 million settlement, and a deal “is not imminent.” In fact, per the Crimson, the university is actively considering fighting the matter out in court rather than settling. The president also reportedly told a faculty member that the rumor about a hefty potential payment was leaked to the media by the Trump administration.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/looks-white-house-fed-lies-170811249.html

[Irish_Dem]

1. The Trump Crime Syndicate caught lying?

Who would have guessed it?

[BoRaGard]

2. A perennial if ever there was one

[Ray Bruns]

7. I'm shocked!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Just like he lies about his trade deals

[tanyev]

4. NOOOOO! Now I can't believe anything the Trump White House says!

[malaise]

11. Hahaha

😂😂😂

[Prairie Gates]

5. NYT really needs to apply the "Fool me once" rule

To their own stupid asses.

Imagine being a New York Times reporter and editor and being outclassed and publicly shown to be bad at your job by a bunch of college kids at the Harvard Crimson. Embarrassing, but they seem to be beyond shame at this point.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. This is part of their method.

How many times have they done this to foreign leaders? Saying that a deal was made, when it wasn't. Trump is continually lying and his staff just goes along with it, even to the point of having embarrassing video out there as he repeats what they tell them infront of the camera.

They are pathological liars, but what I don't understand, is why do they think this improves their negotiating hand?

[LuvLoogie]

8. This is going to keep happening at the NYT

as long as the trumplickers are in charge there.

[NNadir]

9. And of course the NY Times published it with no fact checking.

The NY Times is now the "All the Fox News unfit to print."

[underpants]

10. Gosh I wonder if Harvard knows any really good lawyers

Watch Trump use one of the lackey pro bono law firms to do his bidding.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

12. Trump is a lying fool. He lives to lie. Obviously, his bible thumping isn't working on--himself!

[Bristlecone]

13. The Failing NYT - truly

[nuxvomica]

14. The NYT listed three reporters on that story

Including Nicole Wallace's husband Mike Schmidt, but apparently no one reached out to Harvard? This reminds me of the time Dick Cheney had a story planted in the NYT, via Judith Miller, about Iraq running a nuclear weapons program and later cited that story on Meet the Press to justify the Iraq invasion. Miller later claimed that her job was to simply report these leaks and not assess their veracity. Apparently that's still the rule at the Times.

[Martin68]

15. I was wondering why it had been announced that Harvard had capitulated.

[peggysue2]

16. Liars got to Lie

This is not unlike The Mad King suggesting his tariff 'deals' include massive signing bonuses, proof that tariffs will make us rich.

Serial lying in action!

Americans are starting to wake up. Agent Orange and his zombie legislators have been on a rampage to benefit themselves and the billionaires. No one else.

Republicans are now the Guardians of the Elite and Pedophiles.

[ITAL]

17. The NYT needed to do their due diligence by asking Harvard folks

Of course, given plenty of schools (and other entities) had already folded, I can see why NYT reporters would have believed it. Especially if those same White House type sources had informed them that law firm X or Ivy League University Y was going to capitulate, and then they did so a few days later.

[Mblaze]

18. The clue that it's extortion

Is that pledging to end "DEI" and "anti-semitism" is not enough. Trump wants his millions.

[wolfie001]

19. NYTs' Maggie Haberman spoke to John Barron over the phone

Maybe that's how the scheme went down. Once the cat's out of the bag, good luck getting it back in. Facts are sooooo boring.

[BoRaGard]

20. Will the Times apologize for being SUCKERED by the republicons?

Or were they really suckered at all? Did they just deliberately go along with the foul lies spewing from the White House?

Get back to me when the Times publishes an apology

[wolfie001]

21. The apology will be buried 20 pages in

....or not at all.