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Harvard’s disgraced former president has launched a blistering attack on her successor, accusing him of complying with the Trump administration’s demands after she left the university in shambles just two years ago.

Claudine Gay resigned after only six months as president of the university. During her tenure, she was condemned for the way she handled anti-Israel protests on campus.

Harvard’s largest donors withheld their money and called for her resignation.

She also faced plagiarism accusations and was ridiculed for stumbling through the congressional committee questioning that preempted her resignation.

As the school’s shortest serving president, she finally left the position in January 2024, and was succeeded by her second-in-command Alan Garber.

While most Harvard presidents have chosen to keep their criticisms of their successors to themselves, Gay addressed the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study on September 3 and ridiculed Garber’s work.

She told the crowd that the school had become compliant to President Trump, according to The Harvard Crimson.

Gay said: ‘The posture of the institution seems to be one of compliance.

‘This is distressing, not only for those of us who are on campus and facing the consequences directly, but also for all of those in higher ed who look to Harvard for leadership and guidance.’

Harvard’s current president has fought with the Trump administration for months over funding and enrollment after the president’s crackdown on elite colleges and universities.

He originally rejected the president’s demands to influence curriculum and hiring in April but has continued to negotiate with the administration.

The university has since closed their diversity offices and made changes to the leadership at programs studying in the Middle East.

Gay criticized the choice and said: ‘There has been an elimination of programs, offices, activities that, for at least 20 years, the University has insisted represent institutional imperatives. But now they’re gone.’

Other changes included rebranding diversity initiatives, shaking up staff, and withdrawing from partnerships in the West Bank. Gay said these choices ‘undermine trust in the institution.’

Despite the changes, the school has been in ongoing legal disputes with the Trump administration.

The president tried to freeze the school’s federal funding and demanded a $500 million settlement to restore them.

Gay urged the university not to meet the demand, saying: ‘The number of $500 million is completely arbitrary and it will solve nothing. There is no justification.’

By declining to pay the settlement, she said that Garber may be able to maintain his integrity.

Addressing the audience in Amsterdam, Gay also said that public ultimatums made by donors expose where universities’ loyalties lie.

She said: ‘By going public, they force institutions to choose between donor preferences and public integrity.

‘And when the stakes are that transparent there’s a good chance – though not a guarantee – that integrity will prevail.’

In her speech, Gay also criticized Harvard for its ties to Jeffrey Epstein and the Trump administration for ‘destroying knowledge institutions’ despite declining to sign a letter in April with nearly 90 other university presidents condemning his actions.

Daily Mail reached out to Harvard University for comment.