A letter with demands from the administration of US President Donald Trump was sent to Harvard University on April 10 by mistake, sources told The New York Times.
According to their information, the sending of the list was not coordinated. In addition, the newspaper's sources specify that the letter could not only have been sent prematurely, but was intended for internal use in the Joint Task Force on Combating Anti-Semitism.
The US President's administration did not abandon the demands after Harvard publicly refused to accept them on April 14. Moreover, “Harvard's lawyers were negligent in not calling the anti-Semitic group with which they had been communicating for weeks. "Instead, they portrayed themselves as victims," said White House political strategist Mae Mailman.
On April 14, the U.S. Department of Education announcedthat it was freezing $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard University and $60 million in long-term contracts. Harvard President Alan Garber said the school would not accept the Trump administration's demands for changes to its policies to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitism.