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Tue, 25 Mar 2025
The Trump Administration secures a series of concessions from Columbia University, University of Maine System, and a top left law firm. The Atlantic drops a bombshell about a Trump administration national security group chat that their editor-in-chief somehow was added to accidentally. ICE arrests 370 illegal aliens in Boston during a five-day sweep targeting sanctuary city policies that federal officials say endanger public safety. President Trump slams Colorado Governor Jared Polis over an unflattering portrait in the State Capitol, calling it “purposefully distorted."Done with Debt: https://www.DoneWithDebt.com & tell them Megyn sent you!120/Life: Go to https://120Life.com and use code MK to save 15%
Chapter 1: How did the Trump administration secure wins against major institutions?
The Trump administration securing a slate of wins against Columbia University, the main university system, and Democrat-linked law firm Paul Weiss.
I don't know anything about it. I'm not a big fan of The Atlantic. To me, it's a magazine that's going out of business.
Chapter 2: What is the controversy involving The Atlantic's editor-in-chief?
Editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, says he was accidentally added to a group chat discussing high-level war plans among Trump administration top security officials. Border Czar Tom Homan rounds up hundreds of criminal illegal aliens in Boston. And President Trump has a bone to pick with Colorado's governor over something you probably didn't see coming.
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Chapter 3: How is the Trump administration addressing on-campus anti-Semitism at Columbia?
President Trump securing a recent slate of victories against Columbia University, the state of Maine, and the law firm Paul Weiss. Columbia University facing the loss of $400 million in federal funding, giving in to the Trump administration's demands aimed at curbing on-campus anti-Semitism.
The university rocked by violent anti-Israel protests since the start of Israel's war against the Hamas terrorist organization that killed 1,200 Israelis on 10-7-23. The university agreeing to implement a mask ban on campus Protesters had used masks to shield their identities and to require that protesters identify themselves when asked or face disciplinary action.
The New York Post reporting 36 campus cops also now empowered to arrest students or remove them from the campus when necessary. Previously, these actions required direct authorization from the university president. The school says it will also appoint a senior vice provost to review the Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies Department.
The provost will be responsible for reviewing curriculum, ensuring program offerings are comprehensive and balanced. Columbia officials not fully complying with all Trump administration demands. The university is restructuring the university judicial board rather than fully abolishing it.
Critics of the judicial board accuse it of taking insufficient disciplinary action against students accused of anti-Semitic behavior. The New York Times' The Daily podcast explaining, even with the concessions, Columbia University is not totally in the clear.
That $400 million does not just automatically return. These concessions that Colombia made were essentially their effort to get the government to come to the negotiating table.
It wasn't even like, do all of this and you'll get your money back. It was do all of this and maybe we'll talk to you about getting your money back.
That's exactly right.
The Department of Education reporting Columbia holds roughly $5 billion in federal grant commitments. The original $400 million cut just an initial warning to the university. The Trump administration is serious about ending on-campus displays of anti-Semitism as the law requires.
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Chapter 4: What is the University of Maine's response to Trump's executive order?
On Wednesday, the USDA reinstating the funding, saying the university system is now in full compliance with the executive order. But the issue is not yet fully resolved statewide. The Maine Principals Association, which oversees public school sports, is under federal investigation for allowing a male athlete to compete in the high school girls' pole vault championship.
The MPA has not yet agreed to federal demands. The HHS Office of Civil Rights setting a Thursday deadline for the MPA, the Maine Department of Education and Greeley High School to come into compliance with Title IX.
President Trump this weekend posting to Truth Social, writing, quote, We need a full-throated apology from the governor herself and a statement that she will never make such an unlawful challenge to the federal government again. before this case can be settled. I'm sure she will be able to do that quite easily.
Governor Mills previously threatened to take the Trump administration to court in order to protect the rights of boys in her state to compete in girls' leagues. Instead, she already surrendered at the university level, so we'll see. Paul Weiss, a powerful law firm with deep ties to Democrat politics, caving to the demands of the Trump administration, and then some.
On March 14th, President Trump signing an executive order reading in part, quote, global law firms have for years played an outsized role in undermining the judicial process and in the destruction of bedrock American principles. The president identifying Paul Weiss as one such firm with specific examples.
The order suspended security clearances for Paul Weiss employees, restricted their access to federal buildings, and directed federal agencies to cancel contracts with the firm. On Friday, following a negotiated agreement, President Trump revoking the executive order and laying out a number of concessions.
The law firm will dedicate $40 million in pro bono legal services throughout the remainder of President Trump's term to support mutually agreed upon causes, such as supporting veterans. Paul Weiss committing to adopting a policy of political neutrality and abandoning any diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. The firm also acknowledging the wrongdoing of former partner Mark Pomerantz.
In 2021, Mr. Pomerantz took a leave of absence from Paul Weiss to join the Manhattan DA's office, where he helped lead the criminal investigation into the Trump Organization's alleged inflation of asset values. Upon taking office in 2022, DA Alvin Bragg paused the case, saying he was not prepared to move forward with that one.
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Chapter 5: How did Paul Weiss law firm respond to Trump administration's demands?
Mr. Pomerantz, in turn, very publicly resigning from the DA's office, publishing a scathing resignation letter in March 2022 and a book titled The People vs. Donald Trump, using his platform to pressure Bragg and or others into resurrecting the probe. In April 2022, Mr. Pomerantz then returning to his position as of counsel at Paul Weiss.
It's unclear when Mr. Pomerantz's association with Paul Weiss officially ended, but it apparently has. Ultimately, New York Attorney General Letitia James, a fellow elected Democrat, filed civil charges in a case accusing Trump of inflating asset values to secure favorable loans.
In 2024, she secured a civil judgment imposing over $450 million in penalties against Trump, the Trump Organization, and its top executives. Trump allies and legal experts blasted that case as politically driven, as a witch hunt, with no clear victim. None of the banks who had allegedly been defrauded complained at all. Despite Mr. Trump's 2024 election victory, A.G.
James has refused to drop the case, which is now under appeal. Editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine Jeffrey Goldberg shocking Washington Monday with a piece headlined, The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans. Mr. Goldberg claiming he was added by National Security Advisor Mike Walz to a signal group chat with what appeared to be senior Trump administration officials.
National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes later confirming to Mr. Goldberg and to ABC News the authenticity of the group message chain. On March 15th, the Trump administration began bombing the Houthi rebel group in Yemen. Mr. Goldberg writing, quote, I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming.
The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, had texted me the war plan at 1144 a.m. Mr. Goldberg outlining days of communications on the encrypted messaging app Message Chain, which also included Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vice President J.D. Vance, and other high-ranking officials.
the officials engaging in a nuanced policy discussion weighing the pros and cons of launching the attack on the Houthis. The user identified as J.D.
Vance, pointing out the Europeans had the most to lose with the shipping disruptions being caused by the Houthis, questioning why America should take on this risk, writing, quote, I am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now. There's a further risk that we see a moderate to severe spike in oil prices.
Mr. Goldberg then claiming days later the group chat receiving a follow-up message from Defense Secretary Hegseth. Mr. Goldberg writing, quote, I will not quote from this update or from certain other subsequent texts. The information contained in them, if they had been read by an adversary of the United States, could conceivably have been used to harm American military and intelligence personnel.
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Chapter 6: What are the details of the Trump administration's accidental group chat leak?
What we're seeing here is just pure carelessness. It is recklessness. It is laziness. It's really a disgraceful situation.
If you think Signal is equivalent to U.S. government secure telecommunications, think again.
Democrats quickly leaping to comment. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer struggling to shore up his own support with progressives, slamming the administration from the Senate floor.
It's bad enough that a private citizen was added to this chain. But it's far worse that sensitive military information was exchanged on an unauthorized application, especially when that sensitive military information was so, so important.
Secretary Hegseth denying Mr. Goldberg's description of his communications. You're talking about a
deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again to include the, I don't know, the hoaxes of Russia, Russia, Russia, or the fine people on both sides hoax, or suckers and losers hoax. So this is the guy that peddles. in garbage. This is what he does. I've heard I've heard I was characterized. Nobody was texting war plans.
And that's all I have to say about that.
Thank you. President Trump learning about the story in a press conference with the governor of Louisiana from a reporter who brought it up.
I don't know anything about it. I'm not a big fan of The Atlantic. It's to me, it's a magazine that's going out of business. I mean, the attack on the hood. Well, it couldn't have been very effective because the attack was very effective. I can tell you that I don't know anything about it.
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