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

Harvard University was told by an unidentified official on Trump’s antisemitism task force that a letter of demands had been sent to the university without authorization, the New York Times reports, citing two unidentified people familiar with the matter.

The letter sent by the Trump admininstration to the Harvard University last Friday (April 11) demanding policy changes was sent by ‘mistake’, a new report suggested. The Trump administration's letter to Harvard demanded that the university make a series of policy changes in order to continue to receive federal funding.

The legal underpinnings of the administration’s broadsides against universities and schools stretch precedents and cut corners.

The Trump Administration demanded Harvard University share information going years back on donations and contracts from foreign countries, opening a new front in its battle against the institution.