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That’s illegal.

And the courts will say, no, you can't do that. Plus, Trump is committing a felony. Why can't you fucking write something honest?

The party of small government

On its face, it is an arbitrary & capricious move.

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You should not print lies in the newspaper

He can't do this legally. That doesn't mean he won't if the judiciary and Congress continue to be spineless.

It’s a full employment act for Harvard’s lawyers

Trump does not have the legal authority to order the IRS to do this.

Right. Then the courts will rule he can't do this. And he will whine incessantly about radical left judges preventing him from breaking the law. Rinse and repeat.

How nice of CNN to not mention that this is expressly illegal

Sounds illegal. Maybe you should include that in your reporting.

They literally have a law school and rich alumni who contribute for the tax deduction.

Why, in your reporting, don't you also state that tweets or truths by an unhinged #F47 doesn't mean it is a done deal? He is NOT A KING! It's so damn frustrating that you don't!!

Trump says doesn't make it true.

Is this true CNN? I think it is, but you dont really go into any depth, it seems like it's a major story in and of itself if the President is ordering something illegal. Andy Rose and Taylor Romine the reporters who wrote this story should look into this.

This means Harvard isn’t kissing trump’s ass. Harvard needs to take back jared kushner’s store bought degree

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CNN: "chess match" since when is breaking the law to try to harm political opponents part of some game?

Hey CNN, this is a crime, inform your readers. Also any dem, just say it, we're prosecuting him day 1.

The Glorious Leader "Says". FU. JFC. Shameful shit, CNN. Just shameful.

Now do churches.

You're covering an actual crime and can't bring yourselves to mention the criminality

Yup, start with organized religion before stripping educational institutions of tax exemption

I said I was going to be a starting pitcher for the Cleveland Guardians. That's about as true as Trump's nonsense that will never happen.

Harvard has abused it long enough.

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When Harvard fights the U.S. government, it’s not about right or wrong, it’s about whose lawyers went to Yale.

Why do you just type up what he says- this is stenography

Bad post copy. Better: "Trump says Harvard University should be stripped of its tax-exempt status in social media post that legal experts say is illegal" In the headline, "will revoke" also should read "should revoke." Trump's posts and executive orders are press releases communicating opinions.

Not legal…lawsuits to follow

Hi, leading global news org. Is it not important for the story that this tweet, on its own, is illegal? Like, this isn’t just “the latest move”; it’s a criminal act. Why is that not in the headline? “President commits crime to further threaten Harvard and free speech, generally.”

Stenography is not journalism.

Another case he’ll lose, but he doesn’t care. It feeds his need to fight, plus his zombies lap it up.

Trump went off the rails again — now threatening Harvard’s tax-exempt status. Under 26 U.S.C. §7217, it’s illegal for presidents to target taxpayers with the IRS. Weaponizing taxes = criminal? #Trump #Harvard #IRS #AbuseOfPower #RuleOfLaw #NoOneIsAboveTheLaw

Just another "move" in a "chess match"? Chess has rules, and many moves are illegal. Great job doing his work, though.

The executive branch doesn’t determine that

Or use the word “blackmail.” (Though that’s probably expecting too much.)

Thank you!

The administration isn’t even hiding its fascism…. punishing people that oppose you politically is what the communist this country claims to hate does btw

Since when does he get to make that decision? Oh, right. I forgot that he's no longer the President. He's Dear Leader who gets to do whatever comes into his ugly and utterly corrupt and demented mind.

I think Trump has been watching Deliverance again. "It's only the biggest fucking river in the state". Hey Trump, It's only the oldest fucking university in the country. What a moron.

Exactly...and he'll be put in his place too.

Wanna take another swing at this with actual reporting rather than stenography?

#trump will face a massive brain drain in #usa thanks to policies like this The brightest and best in #usa will go to nations that will fund their research and foreign students just won’t bother to attend USA universities Likely quite quickly

It's irresponsible to report it like this. What he's doing is a federal crime and you should say it. Everything bad happening in the country now is happening because of people like you.

"Trump commits crime by...."

It's not a chess match. It's not a game at all, in fact, and it would be ideal if you didn't conceptualize it that way in your coverage.

Which the administration cannot do. There are criminal penalties for anyone in the IRS who takes marching orders from a politician and does this.

Promises Made, Promises Broken and in shambles On the economy, On Tariffs On inflation On job creation , On manufacturing coming back to US, On layoffs, On vengeance And the list goes on and on Make sure you attend rallies and town halls Resist, RESIST, Resistance

Every hour there is yet another illegal EO that needs to waste thousands of hours of lawyers time to fight. Trump and Republicans do not care about anti-Semitism.

Stay strong Harvard don’t let this bitch get’s you down.

How is any of this shit legal?

This is an impeachment offense.

I may be naive in thinking this, but it is vitally important that the media report about his lawlessness. We can’t allow people to accept it as just the way things are now.

Trump PR - just repeat what he says. No journalism required.

CNN is complicit in elevating Trump. They are no longer serious news. They are just a megaphone for Trump.

This headline is terrible. Trump has no power to decree this and that should be stated IN THE HEADLINE.

DO YOUR JOB. 26 U.S.C. 7217 - “Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations.”

Stop being a trump cuck. He can’t

Is it really a good idea to pick a fight with a school that has one of the top law schools in the country?

He’d better strip the tax exempt status from all the churches next 🤷‍♂️

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Piss poor journalism. Correct lede: President illegally strips Harvard of tax-exempt status.

More money for lawyers. I bet Harvard can find a few good ones.

He doesn't have the power to do that. Do better, CNN.

You are part of the problem. Stop capitulating.

"Trump ILLEGALLY says"

This what you expect when you give power to a conman whose con also includes a fake university as a money-making con that was shutdown!

All nonsense. Illegal and idiotic (distracting) nonsense.

Did trumps cabinet picks have to sign an ass kissing trump praise affidavit?Pretty sure they did it’s sickening every time they speak we have to hear bullchit and heaps of praise lobbed on a man taking America down with their help. Hope soon we will see them all packing up. See where Giuliani is?

Trumps crypto ties only for the wealthy. The stock market will only be for the wealthy and no longer be a safe haven to sustain retirement investments for 90% of people. The “dirty boys club” is winning. Republican dominated congress does nothing because they are in the club. Worse than Watergate.

I actually support for-profit colleges being taxed and I don't care if it's for purely political reasons. I'm fine with only a few targets being picked for now if it helps the agenda of ending tax-exempt for-profit colleges. Someone can finish what this fascist started later.

Since this is illegal, why isn't the illegality in the headline?

That fact that this would be in violation of a law specifically written for this situation seems like an important enough fact to include in the headline. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

And is that legal? What would doing so entail? What there be any violation of norms or laws worth, say, noting in the preview text? Do your editors actually think "extraordinary move" is a phrase that means anything to to the public?

Convivicted felon Trump illegally attacks Harvard University. Fixed it

Why don’t people Just ignore is EO’s? It’s just paper he wrote on.

Pretty sure that's illegal

Fight over free speech? You mean fight against free speech.

They are going after the intellectuals just like Dictators do. They don't want the masses educated or smarter then then (which basically means uneducated".

And Osteen's as well...

Did Scott Jennings write this post?

#PresidentRevenge is at it again. When is #Congress going to stop this #Idiot

My understanding is that his declaration on Truth Social is a crime. uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r... Hiw about mentioning that too?

Worth noting in the headline and the article this is illegal

What a bully.

That’s illegal though right CNN? Like he literally does not have the power to do this. Maybe that should be a bigger part of these “Trump threatens to…” stories….???

Trump has destroyed the brand "USA" in most areas of the world. Here in Europe, we try to avoid anything American, except probably American music, TV products, and movies. Any marketeer knows how easy it is to destroy a brand and how difficult it is to build it up again.

Do Mega Churches Next!

I thought he was talking about ‘Harlem’

I didn't know sledgehammers were used in chess.

He doesn't have the power to do that. Report accurately

Plenty of better news sources than CNN. Thank goodness.

He says a lot of things that he can't legally do. Maybe say that.

This is not how you cover it, and lending the slightest bit of credibility to it in your headline is beyond psychotic

Based on observation, Trump does not have the mental acumen to be coming up with all these strategies. Are we being ruled by President Miller?

Where can them Harvard guys find a good lawyer?

A news organization would include the fact that it's illegal in their headline. But CNN seems to be about normalizing GOP abuses of power more than informing their readers.

Million percent agree

I know you think saying things like "fight" implies enough about how illegal this will likely prove to be, and is on the surface, but words don't work the way your stylebook says they do. You have a moral imperative to be better communicators.

CNN says whatever Trump wants. Are they afraid they will be stripped of their media status? Or are their "journalists", & owners, just a bunch of greedy whores who'll sell out society for some quick cash that won't save them in the end?

Come on CNN. Free speech is free speech. Don't treat it like two people fighting over the last chicken wing

No, he cannot; No, it won't !!!

And MAGA churches need to be stripped of their tax exempt status as well.

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You post this without mention that even to suggest this that the president is committing a crime?

Hey CNN, is that something Trump has the power to do?

V for vendetta.

Hey CNN how about being a journalistic institution and actually report the fucking reality. That orange stain cannot do that.

Lucky he doesn't have that authority

Maybe Chuck Schumer will write another letter.

Pretty sure Harvard has churned out enough lawyers to beat this in court.

That won’t hold. Tax exemptions aren’t arbitrarily applied. They have to meet criteria to qualify which they do. They have to eliminate the exemption for all schools to make it stick. And by they I mean Congress, not a BS EO.

The corporate mainstream media is complicit.

you guys can do research, right? you don't have to repeat all this bullshit as if its true.

I hope Harvard says “we will see you in court”