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Trump’s education pick once incorrectly claimed to have education degree | Linda McMahon, in a questionnaire for a 2009 post on a Connecticut state education board, incorrectly said she had a bachelor’s degree in education, according to news reports.
Washington Compost ^ | November 20, 2024 at 9:15 a.m. EST | Beth Reinhard , Aaron Schaffer and Laura Meckler

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: lindamcmahon; media; msm; washingtoncompost
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

OP I just don’t understand your love with the communists media.


41 posted on 11/20/2024 3:30:04 PM PST by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: jdt1138

I don’t understand your desire to stick your head in the sand and pretend all is well.


42 posted on 11/20/2024 3:35:11 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

ANYONE ONE OF US HERE AT FREE REPUBLIC COULD CLOSE DOWN THE DEPT OF EDUCATION

SHE IS VERY SMART


43 posted on 11/20/2024 3:37:21 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

She is there to Kill It Wapo.

Get a Clue.


44 posted on 11/20/2024 3:37:23 PM PST by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: AZJeep
"Seems a completely innocent error to me!"

I agree... because... recently I was asked if I have a college degree and what it was. For the life of me I couldn't remember! I knew it was a BS but couldn't remember in what! The college used a strange word for it. It was a long long LONG time ago! LOL

45 posted on 11/20/2024 4:47:01 PM PST by 1_Rain_Drop ( ~~ TRUMP is right about EVERYTHING ! ~~ )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I prefer Faucahontas or Liawatha for Warren.


46 posted on 11/20/2024 4:48:58 PM PST by ConjunctionJunction (Vim vi repellere licet)
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To: ConjunctionJunction

Trump uses Pocahantas because only a fraction of the population will understand what Fauxahontas or Liawatha means, but everybody knows what Pocahantas means.


47 posted on 11/20/2024 4:55:28 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yes, but my nicknames shift the emphasis to focus on her lying.


48 posted on 11/20/2024 4:57:40 PM PST by ConjunctionJunction (Vim vi repellere licet)
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To: ConjunctionJunction

If half your audience doesn’t get it, it doesn’t matter what your nicknames focus on.


49 posted on 11/20/2024 4:58:29 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: HYPOCRACY
I heard she got a B- on a quiz and lied to her mom about it.

She stole a candy bar when she was six and ate the evidence.

50 posted on 11/20/2024 5:57:15 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: ifinnegan
McMahon received a bachelor’s degree in French and a teaching certificate from East Carolina University

My Alma mater. Woot. Woot.

51 posted on 11/20/2024 9:39:09 PM PST by Hyman Roth
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good. She’s not brainwashed then.


52 posted on 11/21/2024 8:37:04 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I.

Don’t.

Care.

I vote for Trump, not for Big Media or the demonicRAT party.

Seriously ... all this pettifoggery and nitpicking and pointless scandalmongering just reinforces the idea that Mr. Trump is making good choices this time.


53 posted on 11/21/2024 8:39:37 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

She has all the real-world experience she needs to do the job at hand...


54 posted on 11/21/2024 8:41:20 AM PST by OKSooner
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To: vivenne
The NYT is working overtime cranking out the hit pieces.

It's laughable that they try to make mountains out of molehills.

55 posted on 11/21/2024 8:42:54 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: OKSooner

If the job at hand is to suplex the Dept. of Education, followed by a pile driver and a back breaker ... then whack it over the head with a folding steel chair ...

All of which I enthusiastically approve ...


56 posted on 11/21/2024 8:44:57 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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