Columbia University’s new acting president dismissed the congressional hearings on campus antisemitism as “nonsense” in a 2023 text message.

Claire Shipman, co-chair of the university’s board of trustees, was appointed as the acting university president on Friday.

Shipman derided congressional oversight efforts on antisemitism as “capital [sic] hill nonsense” in a text message to Columbia’s then-President Minouche Shafik while referring to a New York Times article that claimed the university navigated tensions over the Israel-Hamas war more skillfully than other universities. 

“[M]ost critically I think it heavily inoculates us for a while from the capital [sic] hill nonsense and threat,” Shipman wrote in the message, which was revealed in a 325-page report from the Republican House Committee on Education and the Workforce in October.

Armstrong stepped in after Shafik resigned in August amid claims of institutional antisemitism. Armstrong later stepped down amidst a clash with the Trump administration over $400 million in federal funding. 

Shipman previously worked as a CNN White House reporter, a White House correspondent for NBC News and a senior national correspondent for ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Shipman was married to Jay Carney, who served as the White House press secretary under former President Barack Obama.

Fox News’ Jasmine Baehr, Alexis McAdams, Louis Casiano, Alexis McAdams and Yael Halon contributed to this report.