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For those of you blessed enough to not be part of the rarified population of people who affirmatively signed themselves up to receive Google Alerts containing all the latest news about Barron Trump, you may have missed that there have been rumors flying around for weeks now about the real source of his father’s animus toward Harvard University. In fact, for almost as long as the administration has been feuding with Harvard , some form of the dumb rumor has persisted: that this is all because Barron couldn’t get into the school, and further, perhaps because Donald couldn’t either.

The source, to the extent that there is one, was social media: In mid-April, some

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