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B.See

(6,831 posts)
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 02:46 AM 12 hrs ago

Trump niece claims he 'paid someone to take his SATs' to get into college

Trump niece claims he 'paid someone to take his SATs' to get into college - Rawstory

"The only reason his grades were good enough to apply to the University of Pennsylvania was because my Aunt Maryanne, his older sister, did all his homework for him," she claimed. "The only reason he got in was because he paid someone to take his SATs for him and my dad’s fraternity brother worked in Admissions. The only reason Donald was able to make it into Manhattan real estate was because my grandfather was worth hundreds of millions of dollars and he had very deep connections to New York real estate and New York politics."

She then added, "Every step along the way, Donald’s rise has been enabled by somebody else with more power and their own malign motives: from my grandfather to the New York media, from the banks to Mark Burnett at NBC; from the Republican Party to the f------ Supreme Court. And yet, Donald continues to be petty. For him, having everything isn’t enough unless you’re humiliating the person you stole everything from."
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Doodley

(11,442 posts)
2. He proves every day that he's a moron and a cheat. So, of course he had somebody else take the exams and do all the work
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 03:19 AM
12 hrs ago

no_hypocrisy

(53,247 posts)
3. My guess is that the efforts of Trump's sister and brother were motivated by
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 05:12 AM
10 hrs ago

the insistence of their father, Fred Sr., not due to fraternal devotion. More like threats of withholding money, etc. if they didn't help their ne'er-do-well brother.

no_hypocrisy

(53,247 posts)
5. There was no family loyalty. It was for Fred Sr. alone and the image he wanted
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 06:02 AM
9 hrs ago

the world to see.

Response to B.See (Original post)

GoCubsGo

(34,405 posts)
10. This is either old news, or
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 07:42 AM
8 hrs ago

I am confusing it with some other story that came out in his first term, that was about somebody taking some sort of college exam for him. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there were multiple incidents of cheating with this lying scumbag.

betsuni

(28,392 posts)
11. Was in her book "Too Much and Never Enough" (2020).
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 08:18 AM
7 hrs ago

"Unfortunately, even though Maryanne had been doing his homework for him, she couldn't take his tests ... . To hedge his bets he hired Ben Shapiro, a smart kid with a reputation for being a good test taker, to take his SAT's for him."

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