Since Trump is always bragging about his arty deals, how genius he is, and has even had books ghostwritten under his byline about what strategies to engage in as you pursue a deal, you’d think that not throwing good money after bad would be Exhibit No. 1.

Like, if someone took $584 million from you, and then said that if you paid him $1 billion you could have the other money back, it wouldn’t take a trained international hostage negotiator to note that this was no bargain and to nix the proposed pact.

But this unartful deal is precisely the one Trump is offering to UCLA in the ongoing bickering over allegations of antisemitism on campus.

A draft agreement in the effort to restore the $584 million in federal research funding the White House halted called for the university to make the co

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