Since returning to office in January, President Donald Trump has made a major push to put America’s elite universities on notice over political ideology. But the groundwork for the White House’s stronger stance was laid more than a year earlier.

President Donald Trump launched a new broadside at Harvard University, accusing the school of being a “liberal mess” while attacking one of its lawyers who also represents his business. “Harvard is a threat to Democracy,

The move came shortly after President Trump lashed out at the lawyer, William Burck, co-managing partner of litigation powerhouse Quinn Emanuel, on social media.