Trump Organization Fires Lawyer as President Blasts Harvard Work

Pedestrians walk through Harvard Yard on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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The Trump Organization fired a conservative lawyer who served as its ethics adviser hours after the president attacked him for helping Harvard University sue the administration.

The lawyer, William Burck of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, was dismissed Thursday by Eric Trump, who runs the company with his brother Donald Jr. Earlier that morning, President Donald Trump urged his company to get “rid of him ASAP!”