It is. But maybe his 30+ years of public service has convinced people he is a better man now?Megaterio Llamas wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 11:45 pm I can still remember seeing this clip on the CBS news back then, I followed US politics a lot more closely in those days, lol.
All of the lying and plagiarism ended his presidential aspirations then, and nearly ended his political career.
His comeback from complete humiliation to win the nomination 32 years later is kind of amazing actually.
Still, I was really surprised to see the Democrats pick him as their candidate, as he clearly has flaws.
And yet, despite all this, he still comes out as the morally superior, more decent candidate in this race.
Really tells you something about Donald Trump, doesn’t it?
I mean, Biden may have lied about being in the top half of his class, but so did Trump, even claiming to be #1...
Did Donald Trump finish first in his class at Wharton, as he bragged to multiple journalists over the years?
This assertion appeared in a fawning New York Times profile of the Trump Organization published in 1973, the same year the Department of Justice sued Donald and his father Fred for housing discrimination for refusing to rent to people of color. Sample paragraph:
Donald, who was graduated first in his class from the Wharton School of Finance of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968, joined his father about five years ago. He has what his father calls “drive.” … “Donald is the smartest person I know,” he remarked admiringly.
The claim was repeated in another doting profile of Trump in the New York Times in 1976. Noting that practically every article ever written about Trump in the wake of the Times profiles parroted the “first in his class” claim, the Times finally corrected the record in yet another eye-roll-inducing profile published in 1984
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2019/09/ ... nsylvania/The program for the commencement ceremony lists the names of students who graduated from Wharton with honors — cum laude, magna cum laude, summa cum laude — and Donald Trump isn’t among them. Nor is his name included on the Dean’s List published in 1968 by the Daily Pennsylvanian. Given that colleges and universities are prohibited by law from releasing transcripts to anyone other than the student in question, and that Trump has purportedly forbidden the school to do so, we’ll have to rely on proof by omission that Trump didn’t graduate with any academic distinction whatsoever.
And at least noone has suggested Biden didn’t take his own entrance exam...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa- ... SKBN2482UR