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The Trump administration released a 200-page report Thursday accusing Biden of anti-Christian bias for fining Liberty University and Grand Canyon University. The report left a few things out. Liberty's $14 million fine came after the school failed to properly report sexual assault data and mistreated survivors over a six-year period from 2016 to 2022. The Clery Act requires any college receiving federal money to collect and disclose campus crime data. Liberty didn't. Students who were assaulted at Liberty during those years and whose cases went mishandled - those are the people Biden's enforcement was protecting. The report calls that targeting Christians. Grand Canyon University's nonprofit battle started in 2019. Under Trump's first term. Betsy DeVos denied GCU's nonprofit conversion request because the school was too financially entangled with a publicly traded corporation. The Biden fine came later. The report does not mention this. It also does not mention that the second Trump administration quietly dropped the GCU fine and dismissed the consumer protection lawsuit after taking office. If your kid was assaulted at Liberty between 2016 and 2022, the enforcement this report calls religious persecution was the mechanism that held the school accountable for what happened to them. That protection is now framed as the problem.

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