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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she’s married to that very odd wrestling guy? What a… ummm… interesting choice.
People make mistakes, big deal.
I once told some police officers that I had been drinking since I’d had a soda before heading out. They knew I didn’t understand the question.
Stuff happens.
“ McMahon received a bachelor’s degree in French and a teaching certificate from East Carolina University”
That’s a lot better than an “education” degree.
Education degree means a degree in Marxist indoctrination.
If only she were a he who identifies as a she it would be okay.
14 years ago you checked the wrong box that was of no consequence to the application you submitted.
That’s gonna leave a mark. /s
I’m just saying if Vince Mcmahon used my bathroom, I’d get a new bathroom. As for his wife, I know absolutely nothing about her, just like everyone else here so, good luck to her. She could be a perfectly wonderful choice as far as I know.
> People make mistakes, big deal. <
As I mentioned in my post #18, I’m a retired teacher. I wouldn’t even classify this as a mistake. It’s not an uncommon way of describing things.
Let’s say a teacher has a degree in math and a math teaching certification. Sometimes he’ll just say he has a degree in education, meaning his degree plus his certification allows him to teach.
I agree.
OH NOES THIS IS HUGE AND SERIOUS..kind of like when Elizabeth Warren pretended to be an American Indian in order to get rich..gee its ironic now the commies care SO much about morality and ethics, the same political party that put in a dude who thinks he’s a chick as head of HHS, and another guy who also thinks he’s a she and stole luggage from airports all over the country..gotta love them ethics
NOT having a worthless education degree is a BIG plus!
Well, if they want to talk about lies, shall we bring up Blumenthal and Waltz, both of whom made far more egregious lies?
Vince is up there with Diddy, bud
Don’t care
Ok noob
Exactly, at least she’s not a phony with a fake “Dr” next top her name like “Dr” Jill
Dept of Education and WWF in the same sentence. Pardon me if I raise an eyebrow. Good luck to her.
Ok noob
I would like for the Dept of Education to get fixed or removed altogether. I also really wanted Hillary to go to jail. She is on a beach.
A fake woman. Big Mike is just a man pretending to be a woman.
Hell, anyone with an actual “eddikashun” degree should be automatically rejected, regardless of politics.
In any case, those possessing degrees in journalism don’t have much to feel superior to...except for studies degrees.
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