5 things that are not cruel and excessive in Trump’s America

Well, thank God, justice has prevailed, and President Donald Trump and his family will not be forced to pay the penalty of $ 500 million in the New York State Fraud case during their habit of years to provide swollen goods to banks and insurers. Of course, the New York State Court of Appeal which thrown The sanction has sure to say that Trump and his companies were actually engaged in fraud, but decided that they did not have to pay, because the penalty was an excessive fine that violated the eighth amendment.

No, really.

Trump is circle And boast about it, and why wouldn’t it do it? It is quite the gift to a president who essentially strips the nation to the studs and sells it to cryptographic scytures to say that any effort to punish its behavior is simply too much. But according to the majority of the court, the president and his sons who make their assessments to deceive the banks to give them more money is “not the cataclysmic damage which can justify a price of almost half a billion dollars in the state”.

There is something so sinister to see the court offering Trump the protection of the law when he is busy dismantling democracy. THE tender solicitude For the portfolio of Donald Trump, which added more than $ 3 billion to his personal fortune since he took office in January, is foul -smelling, especially when you contrast him with the way Trump has aimed to force “regulations” which require that universities give the administration of millions of dollars to access the federal money to which they were already entitled.

Thus, while a fine of about one sixth of the amount that Trump has made in the last seven months is cruel and excessive, these extensions are not.

Not excessive: $ 221 million from Columbia University

Trump administration Columbia in a hurry University, accusing him of allowing anti -Semitism, for months until he spitting nine figures so that federal subsidies are restored. There is no real justification for this figure – this is just the amount that the administration has set as an amount it would accept in order to restore funding. The equal employment committee is Benefiting About How Its $ 21 million Portion of that is “The Large Eeoc Employment Discrimination Resolution Publicly Announced in Nearly 20 Years; The Agency’s Large Ever for Victims of Antisemism; The Most meaningful Religious Discrimination Eeoc Settlement for Workers of Any Faith; Settlement Achieved by the Trump Administration ”

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Of course, we do not know exactly how many employees have been victims of anti -Semitic discrimination and of course, the administration is fully in charge of the way this $ 21 million combines these employees, but simply claim that it is a completely real number rather than a simple way to walk on Columbia and “awake” of higher education establishments.

Not excessive: require $ 1 billion from the UCLA

Yes, this is the request of the administration. The University of California-Los Angeles should give it $ 1 billion To obtain… $ 584 million in funding restored. With this threat suspended above its head, the UCLA has completely paused by hiring teachers for next year.

To be fair, it is true that it is not excessive – it is extortion.

Not excessive: an ever -increasing amount of Harvard University

The administration is furious that Harvard will not fold. Part of the way you know that the proposed “beautiful” Harvard should pay is intended to be punitive is that it is an entirely arbitrary amount that Trump keeps the juice because he is crazy. A recent New York Times report revealed That Trump wants Harvard to pay $ 500 million because he wants it to be double what Columbia had to pay.

This report also shows how much Trump wants to punish Harvard to have retaliated: “Whenever they fight, they lose an additional $ 250 million. Harvard must understand, the last thing I want to do is hurt them. They hurt themselves. They are fighting.”

Yeah, it’s not just excessive. It’s abusive.

Not excessive: take the intellectual property of Harvard

In the war with the Ivy League school, the Trump administration has also threatened To remove patents, Harvard holds which stems from federal subsidies. Under the Bayh-Dole law, schools can receive patents for inventions resulting from the research funded by the federal government, but the government can intervene and appropriate these patents if certain conditions are raped.

According to the administration, Harvard failed The inventions disclosed in a timely time, do not use enough manufacturing based on the United States and have not maximized the public advantages. Has the administration detailed what patents, exactly, are they in question? No. Instead, Harvard is supposed to inform the administration of all his patents and perhaps, perhaps, maybe Administration will tell them more.

How would it help tackle allegedly unleashed anti-Semitism that afflicts Harvard? It wouldn’t be! What he would do is allow the administration to have another lever point, another way of hurting so that Harvard abandons this same amount of half a million dollars who was well, much too excessive for Trump to pay.

Not excessive: $ 50 million to settle… Nothing?

Where Donald Trump thinks that Donald Trump would have been irrevocably injured while spitting a fraction of his wealth, Donald Trump also thinks that forcing Brown University to pay $ 50 million to release millions of subsidies in illegally refused administration is just a Dandy.

With Brown, the administration I didn’t even disturb To find a reason for which he retained $ 500 million in grants and contracts already allocated, and he did not say that Brown had violated a law. Without this funding, Brown had to contract a loan of $ 300 million in April and a loan of $ 500 million in July. The administration knew very well that the loss of half a billion dollars in funding was catastrophic and used this to bring Brown to the heel. Too bad Brown did not count the New York State Court of Appeal in research, as if they were looking for poor Donnie.