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Donald Trumps questionable intelligence: All those false claims about his academic record and derision of others bespeak profound insecurityby Peter Dreier at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/18/donald-trumps-questionable-intelligence-all-those-false-claims-about-his-academic-record-and-derision-of-others-bespeak-profound-insecurity/
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Trump surely knows that he didnt get into Wharton on his own merits. He transferred into Whartons undergraduate program after spending two years at Fordham University in New York. According to Gwenda Blairs 2001 biography, The Trumps, Trumps grades at Fordham were not good enough to qualify him for a transfer to Wharton. Blair wrote that Trump got into Wharton as a special favor from a friendly admissions officer who knew Trumps older brother, Freddy. The colleges admissions staff surely knew that Trumps father was a wealthy real estate developer and a potential donor.
Moreover, Trump has exaggerated his academic accomplishments at Wharton. On at least two occasions in the 1970s A Builder Looks Back-and Moves Forward, on Jan. 28, 1973, and Donald Trump, Real Estate Promoter, Builds Image as He Buys Buildings, on Nov. 1, 1976 the New York Times reported that Trump graduated first in his class at Wharton in 1968.
Thats not true. The deans list for his graduation year, published in the Daily Pennsylvanian, the campus newspaper, doesnt include Trumps name. He has refused to release his grade transcripts from his college days.
It is likely that Trump was the original source for that falsehood, but it isnt entirely clear, since neither Times article attributes it directly to him. But the fabrication that Trump was first in his class has been repeated in many other articles as well as books about Trump, so he clearly knew that it was out there in the public domain and has never bothered to correct it.
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Donald Trumps questionable intelligence: All those false claims about his academic record and deris (Original Post)
applegrove
Dec 2016
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MrPurple
(985 posts)1. But, Donnie insisted that Obama needed to release his college transcripts...
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)2. he was born lying