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Trump just said that Neil Gorsuch graduated first in his class at Harvard Law School. Although Justice Gorsuch is super smart, he wasn't first: He graduated from HLS cum laude at a time when the cutoff for magna cum laude was around the top 15% of the class.
Here were his exact words, with some context. https://twitter.com/Anna_Giaritelli/status/1037886579161944064 …
Full rally here, although I don't know at what point he made that comment.https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1037892820126683136 …
Doesn’t look like Gorsuch didn’t even make Harvard Law Review (unlike smarter classmates like @BarackObama, Paul Clement & Jules Genachowski).pic.twitter.com/HFGx4RjCFf
He wasn't on law review, although my recollection is that a majority of people who were on law review got on because of their score on the law review competition without considering their grades.
If Gorsuch were truly at the top of his class, as the president* claims, he would have graded on.
Likely, but not necessarily. One could be #1 in the class and not have taken the competition. Or (in theory) could have not done well enough on the competition to grade on 1L year but then have been #1 2L and 3L years.
Trumpspeak is at a different level of generality than most professionals. To him "first in his class" or "top of his class" means "super smart". That's the way a NYC construction worker might say it. He's talked that way all his life and he's not going to change.
If you’re associated with him, you were first in the class. If you’re a critic, you were at the bottom. It’s not a special dialect; it’s just a lie.
Well, he's certainly a serial exaggerator. Best not to take him too literally. He's 72 years old and not going to change regardless of criticism...
Can you please provide the venue/time to check what @realDonaldTrump said specifically? or verbatim.
in one school I graduated cum laude, but not Magna so I can relate.
I was watching his Montana rally online; it was about an hour ago.
so maybe 8:40 MST? assuming theyre in mountain time? thanks
That's not the point. The point is that *someone* lied about it. A gratuitous and useless lie.
Trump also claims he was first in his class at Wharton and yet didn’t graduate with honors. Weird.
I'm old enough to remember when we were repeatedly told how Trump voters hate the elites.
Trump is always giving either false information or magnifying anything to his advantage. This is the most shameful administration since the foundation of the United States of America. I can't fathom how Trump has at least one voter left following him. Where is the US CONGRESS?
By the bye, Merrick Garland graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law.
Finally. Proof Trump is a liar.
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