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by UncleMeat 419 days ago
> What he can do is tell the IRS to go through the existing rules and find a reason why Harvard doesn't qualify for tax-exempt status.

No. Even this is illegal. There's specific legislation about this, which explicitly covers the president. The president is not allowed to tell anybody at the IRS to investigate any individual person or organization.

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I would love for you to be right. Can you point me to the ruling/precedent/statute that covers this?
It's 26 USC ยง 7217: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/7217. However with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States ruling it is, I guess, unprosecutable?