Trump officials ignored their own university investigators, lawyer says

Mark Arsenault, Alan Blinder

Trump administration officials ignored the recommendations of their own investigators as they pushed to find civil rights violations at three Ivy League universities, according to a whistleblower complaint released on Aug 18.

The Aug 17 account came from a former Department of Justice civil rights lawyer, Haley Van Erem, and colleagues whose names were redacted, who said they were assigned in 2025 to an administration task force on anti-Semitism. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee released the account on Aug 18.