In the Oval Office, President Trump defended his attacks on Harvard University.
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00:00The first term, your attorney general apologized to Tea Party groups who have been targeted by the IRS under the Obama administration.
00:07Why is it okay for the IRS to now be looking at changing the tax status at Harvard because of policy disagreements you have with the university?
00:17So, you know, I had dinner last night with a lot of pastors and ministers and people of faith.
00:22And there were like 32 of them. And it was beautiful in the blue room. And they said, sir, I was targeted by the IRS.
00:36FBI came in, sir. And I've been going through hell for years. And somebody overheard that statement.
00:43And they said, oh, that happened to me, too. Another one over. Oh, that happened to me, too.
00:49It was the Biden people. And they had seven or eight of them. We're going to be reporting it very soon.
00:55I said, this has to be reported. These are ministers, pastors, evangelicals.
01:01They were targeted by the Biden administration, which was a disgraceful administration.
01:08Well, I was targeted more than anybody in history. I think you probably know that.
01:11I hope you admit it, but you might not. But I was targeted more than anybody in history.
01:16But it was interesting because one pastor told me and another one heard it. Oh, me, too. And me, too.
01:22Me, too. Me, too. All of a sudden they're all. And one of them spent all of his money, everything he had on lawyers for three years.
01:32He said it took place almost immediately after the election, after the election, when Biden came in, unfortunately for the country, sadly for the country.
01:40So when you ask me that question, I immediately say, let's switch it around to tell you what happened last night.
01:47And not only that, we're also finding that many people just having to do with Trump support have gone through hell.
01:55And they've used the IRS for purposes of something that's very illegal for them to have to do.
02:03What are you trying to do?
02:04It's a very illegal. It's a very, very illegal thing to do what they did.
02:10And I think it's so I think it's such a shame. That was long.
02:14If that was wrong, why are you considering changing the tax status of Harvard?
02:19Because I think Harvard's a disgrace. I think what they did was a disgrace.
02:23They're obviously anti-Semitic. And all of a sudden they're starting to behave.
02:29But when you see where they what they were saying, what they were doing, when you see the way they took care of events,
02:36when you when you watch that woman, that horrendous president that ruined the image of Harvard, maybe permanently in Congress, in the halls of Congress,
02:47when you take a look at what happened there, it's it was horrific.
02:53And, you know, I've looked at a lot having to do with it.
02:58I'm not involved in it being handled by lawyers.
03:00I read about it just like you did. But tax exempt status, I mean, it's a privilege.
03:07It's really a privilege. And it's been abused by a lot more than Harvard, by a lot more than Harvard.
03:13So we'll see how that all works out.
03:15I don't think I don't think they've made a final ruling.
03:18I don't believe they've made a final ruling.
03:20But it's it's something that these schools really have to be very, very careful with.
03:27Very anti-Semitic. When you take a look, whether it's Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, take a I don't know what's going on.
03:35But when you see how badly they've acted and in other ways also.
03:40So we'll we'll be looking at it very strongly.