Posted on 11/20/2024 2:35:02 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Linda McMahon, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice as education secretary, incorrectly claimed in 2009 that she had a bachelor’s degree in education on a questionnaire for a Connecticut Board of Education post, according to news reports at the time.
McMahon received a bachelor’s degree in French and a teaching certificate from East Carolina University, according to her alma mater’s announcement that she would deliver the 2018 commencement speech.
The error on the questionnaire was reported by the Hartford Courant during her unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2010. She said at the time that she mistakenly thought her degree was in education because she did a semester of student teaching, and that she had written to the governor’s office the previous year to correct the error after another newspaper noticed the mistake.
McMahon resigned from the state education board one day after the Courant told her it intended to write about the error, the paper reported, but McMahon attributed her decision to a state ruling involving her Senate bid. The state education board could not immediately fulfill a request to provide a copy of the questionnaire and other correspondence Wednesday morning, but the Trump transition team did not dispute that the error occurred.
“The clarification was addressed many, many years ago,” said Brian Hughes, a spokesman for the Trump transition. “These types of politically motivated attacks are the new normal for nominees ready to enact President Trump’s mandate for common sense that an overwhelming majority of Americans supported two weeks ago.”
McMahon built World Wrestling Entertainment into a global empire with her husband, Vince McMahon, and led the Small Business Administration during Trump’s first two years in office. She and her husband have both left the WWE.
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The NYT is working overtime cranking out the hit pieces.
And Michelle Obama is a woman.
My BS in computer science was actually educational, unlike most degrees that the political class favors.
Better that than the actual phony “degree in education” (indoctrination) the colleges hand out.
Yeah, but was she at Tiananmen Square when the tanks rolled in?
I don’t have a BS degree but I should have a degree in BS. I’m that good.
Linda is great. They bitch about everyone. Every time they bitch we need to post a picture of who Biden/Harris embarrassed us with for 4 years.
I heard she got a B- on a quiz and lied to her mom about it.
Wow, that’s the weakest hit I’ve ever seen.
She must be clean as a whistle.
Who cares? That dept. will be eliminated anyway. Its budget is around $235B and has shrunk from around $600B in a few years.
Bkmk
Doesn’t matter.
You don’t need a degree to serve in a temporary role until the department is closed permanently.
Seems a completely innocent error to me!
Those people are trying very hard to smear everybody around Trump.
Sick!
Did she serve fries at Mickey D’s?
I don’t care if she’s an uneducated fry cook; Trump deserves to get his desired cabinet!
> a bachelor’s degree in French and a teaching certificate from East Carolina University <
I’m a retired teacher. The key is her teaching certificate. Told hold such a certificate she had to have taken many education courses. So, yeah. I see no problem here.
Oh, and one more thing. A true “education degree” is worthless. It’s nothing but nonsense. There’s no accepted body of knowledge. No rigor. Say anything you feel like. Collect the degree.
That McMahon holds a French degree is much more impressive. She actually mastered a real subject.
Ok, but is she literally Hitler?
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