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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OP I just don’t understand your love with the communists media.
I don’t understand your desire to stick your head in the sand and pretend all is well.
ANYONE ONE OF US HERE AT FREE REPUBLIC COULD CLOSE DOWN THE DEPT OF EDUCATION
SHE IS VERY SMART
She is there to Kill It Wapo.
Get a Clue.
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
I prefer Faucahontas or Liawatha for Warren.
Trump uses Pocahantas because only a fraction of the population will understand what Fauxahontas or Liawatha means, but everybody knows what Pocahantas means.
Yes, but my nicknames shift the emphasis to focus on her lying.
If half your audience doesn’t get it, it doesn’t matter what your nicknames focus on.
She stole a candy bar when she was six and ate the evidence.
My Alma mater. Woot. Woot.
Good. She’s not brainwashed then.
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.
She has all the real-world experience she needs to do the job at hand...
It's laughable that they try to make mountains out of molehills.
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 ...
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