Trump’s vitriolic social media posts become key factor in legal cases
Harvard’s lawyers are using the president’s Truth Social posts in their case against his administration, and they’ve been cited in other recent cases
Donald Trump’s social media posts have emerged as a factor in legal cases brought against his administration by institutions and law firms resisting his attempts to force them to submit to his presidential power.
The president’s vituperative rhetorical assaults on Harvard – whose professors he has denounced as “bird brains” – on his Truth Social platform are being highlighted by the university’s lawyers, who believe they show his attempts to slash its funding and cancel its right to enroll foreign students is fuelled by personal animus.
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