The Ivy League university declined to 'surrender' to the letter's demands, prompting an escalating series of attacks by the US president Harvard University was told by an unidentified official on US President Donald Trump's antisemitism task force that a letter of demands had been sent to the university without authorisation,

An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

Even though the Trump administration said that the letter was sent mistakenly, a Harvard spokesperson that the government has only intensified its attack on the university through a series of actions that impacted students,