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Posted on 01/28/2026 5:53:51 AM PST by Twotone
Maryland governor Wes Moore (D.) declared he won't waste "a second" of his time finding his missing graduate thesis, which he now claims made him an expert on Hamas. Oxford University, meanwhile, refuses to confirm whether Moore was ever a doctoral candidate in 2006, a representation he made in the résumé he submitted that year to obtain a prestigious White House fellowship that jump-started his political career.
"I am not going to spend a second of my time trying to dig up a paper that I wrote 20 some odd years ago because a blog, because a right-wing blog post is asking me to," Moore, a prospective 2028 Democratic presidential candidate who has faced repeated scrutiny for inaccurate portrayals of his background, told the Baltimore Sun in a late December interview. "I'm too busy."
Moore was referring to a Washington Free Beacon report in December that revealed nobody can find the graduate thesis Moore completed as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, a document he once claimed had "earned him praise as one of the foremost experts" on radical Islam in the Western Hemisphere and had paved the way for his ostensible Oxford doctoral candidacy in 2006.
During the same interview, Moore claimed that his Oxford thesis, Radical Islam in Latin America in the late 20th Century and Its Middle Eastern Roots, made him an expert in Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group based in the eastern hemisphere that has no operational presence in Latin America.
Democrats Wes Moore Says He Won't Waste 'A Second' To Find His Missing Thesis as Oxford Refuses To Confirm He Was Ever a Doctoral Candidate Moore says he's 'too busy' to verify his unproven academic claims Wes Moore (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) Andrew Kerr January 26, 2026
Maryland governor Wes Moore (D.) declared he won't waste "a second" of his time finding his missing graduate thesis, which he now claims made him an expert on Hamas. Oxford University, meanwhile, refuses to confirm whether Moore was ever a doctoral candidate in 2006, a representation he made in the résumé he submitted that year to obtain a prestigious White House fellowship that jump-started his political career.
"I am not going to spend a second of my time trying to dig up a paper that I wrote 20 some odd years ago because a blog, because a right-wing blog post is asking me to," Moore, a prospective 2028 Democratic presidential candidate who has faced repeated scrutiny for inaccurate portrayals of his background, told the Baltimore Sun in a late December interview. "I'm too busy."
Moore was referring to a Washington Free Beacon report in December that revealed nobody can find the graduate thesis Moore completed as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, a document he once claimed had "earned him praise as one of the foremost experts" on radical Islam in the Western Hemisphere and had paved the way for his ostensible Oxford doctoral candidacy in 2006.
During the same interview, Moore claimed that his Oxford thesis, Radical Islam in Latin America in the late 20th Century and Its Middle Eastern Roots, made him an expert in Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group based in the eastern hemisphere that has no operational presence in Latin America.
"Part of the reason that I am, just a firm belief that groups like Hamas will never be a part of a long-term peace process inside of the Middle East is because I know them too well," Moore told the Sun. "Not just [as] a soldier who led soldiers overseas, but as someone who had studied these groups, and actually, and again, my master's thesis was on this work."
As for Oxford, it now says the laws of the United Kingdom prohibit it from verifying Moore's academic claims. The British university rejected a Free Beacon Freedom of Information Act request seeking confirmation that Moore was ever a doctoral candidate in 2006, saying in a January 13 letter the disclosure of information that would confirm his doctoral candidacy could reveal the "personal data of a third-party." The university's Bodleian Library told the Free Beacon in December it cannot find "any trace" of Moore's thesis because he never submitted it to the library.
There is as yet no indication that Moore will authorize Oxford to release his academic records to the public. His office did not return a request for comment.
In addition to his suspect academic claims, Moore has falsely claimed that he was born and grew up in Baltimore, was inducted into the nonexistent Maryland College Football Hall of Fame, received a Bronze Star for his service in Afghanistan, and had a "difficult childhood," even though he attended Riverdale Country School in New York City, one of the most elite private schools in the country.
Moore's steadfast refusal to locate his missing graduate thesis indicates he will never be able to receive his formal degree certificate at an Oxford graduation ceremony. A "degree confirmation" form shows that Moore completed his Master of Letters degree in International Relations in November 2005, a full four years after he began his Oxford studies, but does not yet have his formal certificate because he never walked at a graduation ceremony.
Moore cannot walk at an Oxford graduation ceremony until he submits a copy of his graduate thesis to the Bodleian Library, Oxford deputy communications chief Julia Paolitto told the Free Beacon.
Moore did not leave a memorable impression with at least one Oxford professor who taught at the school's Department of International Relations from 1987 to 2011. Avi Shlaim, an Oxford emeritus professor at the department that awarded Moore's master's degree, said he has "never heard of this chap" when asked if he knew anything about Moore's thesis.
Speculating as to how Moore can claim to have been a doctoral candidate after spending four years completing a Master of Letters degree—a degree that typically takes two years to earn—Shlaim said Moore's degree may have been a consolation prize for a failed doctoral thesis.
"Usually when a doctoral thesis is not good enough to pass, the examiners offer a chance to revise and resubmit," Shlaim told the Free Beacon. "But sometimes they offer an M.Litt for the thesis without any revision."
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Temu Obama
He won’t waste a second because he knows it doesn’t exist.
CC
I still have virtually every professional document I wrote in 2006 on my hard drive and on the cloud. I could produce any of them in 5 minutes.
Hillary Clinton was an acolyte of Saul Alinsky. She wrote a thesis about him, which we were not allowed to see.
So this guy claims to be an expert about Hamas, and wrote a thesis about Hamas? But we are not allowed to see it?
Or perhaps it just doesn’t exist. We are supposed to take on faith that he has this great expertise. But we’re not allowed to see the product of his research.
Okay then........
Maybe I’m being naive, but if I ever wrote a Doctoral Thesis, I would be proud of it and be able to show it to anyone who was interested and could produce it in a matter of minutes.
Do these people ever do anything other than cheat, steal, lie and plagiarize? I know the answer. Rhetorical question
It should be stored in the archives at Oxford, within their library system.
I located this in 3 minutes...
Maybe Wes could help us narrow it down?
Guy has honesty problems.
Just another set of faked credentials for some unearned advancement. All part of the Democrat Socialist playbook for the elevation of mediocre candidates to positions of power.
And once in positions of power, easily manipulated by The Powers That Be, the big money guys and the true seat of corruption.
Everything I wrote in grad school is on floppy disks in WordStar files. I suppose I could fire up the Kaypro II and access them, but it wouldn’t be easy.
If it even exists, he has it, knows exactly where it is, but will never release it because it likey sympathetic to Hamas and anti-Israel.
He lies .
Exactly. My wife has a hard bound copy of her Master’s thesis from 30+ years ago. He should at least have his own personal copy and his sheepskin from Oxford.
Wes got a four year masters degree and a participation trophy from Oxford.
The fact that he doesn’t want to waste time looking for it tells me that it was subpar and he got the consolation prize. It also explains why he never submitted it to the Bodlein library, so nobody could pick it apart. Credit where credit is due, he seems to have earned his other degrees. He is, however a member of Alpha Phi Alpha. This is a black fraternity that has a long history of corruption and hazing. Several of the hazing incidents resulted in the death of pledges. I remember them from my time in college as being serious assholes.
CC
IMO, no one who puts in the time and effort to write a Masters or Doctoral Thesis, only to throw away the end result.
NO! That’s why I call them DEMONCRATS.
There are several converters available to convert WordStar files to MS Word or ASCII text.
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