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2. President Trump's repeated targeting of @Harvard 's tax-exempt status is blatantly illegal under federal law.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri May 2, 2025, 01:17 PM

May 2

It is illegal for trump to threaten Harvard's tax exempt status

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President Trump's repeated targeting of @Harvard's tax-exempt status is blatantly illegal under federal law.

The IRS cannot be weaponized to target political and ideological opponents — not under Nixon, not under Obama, and not under Trump.

Here is a link to the US Code section cited
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/7217

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