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CNN’s Don Lemon ties Donald Trump to college admissions cheating scheme
Fox News ^ | 13 Mar 2019 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn

Posted on 03/13/2019 2:58:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

CNN host Don Lemon managed to connect President Trump to what has been called the “largest college admissions scam ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice” on Tuesday night by saying the president also benefited from a rigged system that favors the elite.

Earlier in the day, law enforcement officials announced 50 indictments for those involved in a scheme in which wealthy parents allegedly paid large sums of money for their children to be accepted at prestigious universities across the country. Among the high-profile individuals swept up in the controversy are TV actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin.

When Lemon tackled the topic during his opening monologue, he called it “disturbing” that such well-off families would go to such lengths to get their children into college and quickly pivoted to Trump.

The “CNN Tonight” host said that such a scandal can reinforce many people’s beliefs that the “system is rigged against them,” something he noted was a theme during Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

CNN primetime shows filled with liberal opinion, not straight news as network claimsVideo “This is what Donald Trump tapped into and in a lot of ways, guess what, he was right,” Lemon conceded before using the scandal as the impetus to mention the president's own upbringing.

“A lot of people will point out, and they have every right to do so, that Donald Trump himself is a beneficiary of a system that’s rigged in favor of the elite. Let’s not forget The New York Times investigation that revealed at age three, Donald Trump was earning $200,000 a year in today’s dollars,” Lemon told his viewers.

“He was a millionaire by age 8,” Lemon shrugged.

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KEYWORDS: bitterlemon; cnn; desperate; gettrump; stretch; tds; varsityblues
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To: bigdaddy45

Some guys with exotic sounding names have gotten into college claiming to be foreign nationals. The appeal of a foreign born affirmative-action student is just too much to resist.


41 posted on 03/13/2019 7:39:09 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: Vigilanteman
U Chicago refused him a Professorship.They were told to find something so they created an adjunct position. Very much lower rank😀
42 posted on 03/13/2019 7:53:11 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: x

Yeah. My friend who went to Berkeley said, USC a mediocre school for rich kids but the connections you make there are second to none.


43 posted on 03/13/2019 7:54:29 PM PDT by mindburglar (Don't bother. I don't debate.)
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To: bigdaddy45
Its the Asians kids who have the biggest beef, not the white kids.

Yes, the Asian kids have the biggest beef, then next are the white kids.

My point still holds.

There's a bigger scheme than a few rich kids getting in. It's the affirmative action kids getting in.

44 posted on 03/13/2019 8:11:00 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Sgt_Schultze
An affirmative-action tv guy whining about somebody else’s privilege. Priceless.

This.

45 posted on 03/13/2019 8:12:05 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“He was a millionaire by age 8,” Lemon shrugged.”

Yes being a millionaire is baaaaaaaaaad and evvvvvvvvvil. Unless you are donating a lot of money to the Demorats or if you are named Warren, Pelosi, Obama, Clinton...


46 posted on 03/14/2019 12:11:18 AM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: AppyPappy
"Irony is that it turns out that Obama is remotely connected"

Perhaps more than just remotely. Very few people ever remember seeing O-Hole attend any classes. And no release of his school records. I bet this has been going on for just he past decade.


47 posted on 03/14/2019 3:02:18 AM PDT by Lockbar (What would Vlad The Impaler do?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

thank goodness for quotas of this stumble bum, CNN host Don Lemon would be shining shoes.


48 posted on 03/14/2019 3:08:58 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' baby, Molon Labe)
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To: freedom1st

Had to go out to Lemon’s twitter and leave him a note:

@DonLemon_CNN
Rush says “Don Lemon is the dumbest man on television”.
Your “connecting” Trump to the college scam kind of says “Rush is Right!”


49 posted on 03/14/2019 3:23:40 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That trail — if there is one — is very cold, Don Lemon. Aren’t you in the News Business where you are supposed to present facts?


50 posted on 03/14/2019 4:07:06 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Just askin'........

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Why does Tucker Carlson call Don Lemon ...... Don Le- MON ........ emphasis on the second syllable?

Tucker says it like the French sports race car event ... the Le Mans. He's been doing it for a couple of weeks now.

It's pretty funny.

51 posted on 03/14/2019 4:25:49 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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52 posted on 03/14/2019 5:04:40 AM PDT by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: bigdaddy45

No, it doesn’t really matter, but if the likes of Don the Lemon want to call out Trump and his family members for getting into top universities when not qualified, turnabout is fair play for Obozo and his wife Moochie too. What were the academic qualifications of those two to attend Columbia, Harvard and Princeton?

I hate the double standards of the lamestream media.


53 posted on 03/14/2019 7:26:08 AM PDT by Cecily
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