Bill Kristol
@BillKristol
Trump's worried that if the kids aren't back in school, how are they going to know when to pay someone to take the SAT for them?
7:16 PM · Jul 8, 2020·Twitter Web App
This is actually a Thing! I haven't read it questioned. The likely suspect died a while ago but his widow, the former tennis pro Pam Shriver, denied that her husband would ever have done such a thing. I must say, as I did say, or text actually, to X-2 this morning that I do not find that credible. Trump went to Fordham in 1964 for two years then transferred to Wharton in 1966. I'm pretty sure that Trump would have had to take his SAT's for Fordham in '64. It is at least my distinct impression that if you transfer you don't take your SAT's again. Right? So, the whole paid-Shriver-to-get-into-Wharton angle doesn't comport with my understanding, outdated though it is, of how things work with the SAT's. But more to the point I didn't think the SAT's were all that back in the early-mid '60's, I could be wrong! but in 1973 when I took mine, they were not what they were to become in the '80's, '90's and to this day, the sine qua non of selective school admissions. Course, maybe I think that because I grew up in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania where even college wasn't sine qua non. Remember when the used to be called the "College Boards"? Were there the Kaplan Course and all of those other SAT prep classes back in 1964 and 1966? I just wouldn't have thought that going to the extreme step of paying a friend to take the SAT's for you was going on in the early-mid '60's. From time immemorial the sop for getting your dullard kid into an elite school is for your rich daddy to make a donation and get his name on a building. Not for the dullard kid to pay a friend. I'm sure as Trump's niece says Trump never lacked for cash even as a 17 year-old but I find it a stretch that the 17 year-old would do that with his allowance money, however fantastic, and keep his father from finding out. Another assumption, perhaps misplaced, that I make--that Trump would want to keep it from Fred. For all I know, and the little that is is consistent with the notion, Fred would have been PROUD of his chip-off-the-old-block win-at-all-costs Donnie. But then it wouldn't have taken till 2020 to be revealed, me thinks. Anyway, there is no corroboration, the closest is Pam Shriver's denial that her deceased husband would ever do such a thing, and I just don't find all of this to add up to an accepted Thing.
@BillKristol
Trump's worried that if the kids aren't back in school, how are they going to know when to pay someone to take the SAT for them?
7:16 PM · Jul 8, 2020·Twitter Web App
This is actually a Thing! I haven't read it questioned. The likely suspect died a while ago but his widow, the former tennis pro Pam Shriver, denied that her husband would ever have done such a thing. I must say, as I did say, or text actually, to X-2 this morning that I do not find that credible. Trump went to Fordham in 1964 for two years then transferred to Wharton in 1966. I'm pretty sure that Trump would have had to take his SAT's for Fordham in '64. It is at least my distinct impression that if you transfer you don't take your SAT's again. Right? So, the whole paid-Shriver-to-get-into-Wharton angle doesn't comport with my understanding, outdated though it is, of how things work with the SAT's. But more to the point I didn't think the SAT's were all that back in the early-mid '60's, I could be wrong! but in 1973 when I took mine, they were not what they were to become in the '80's, '90's and to this day, the sine qua non of selective school admissions. Course, maybe I think that because I grew up in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania where even college wasn't sine qua non. Remember when the used to be called the "College Boards"? Were there the Kaplan Course and all of those other SAT prep classes back in 1964 and 1966? I just wouldn't have thought that going to the extreme step of paying a friend to take the SAT's for you was going on in the early-mid '60's. From time immemorial the sop for getting your dullard kid into an elite school is for your rich daddy to make a donation and get his name on a building. Not for the dullard kid to pay a friend. I'm sure as Trump's niece says Trump never lacked for cash even as a 17 year-old but I find it a stretch that the 17 year-old would do that with his allowance money, however fantastic, and keep his father from finding out. Another assumption, perhaps misplaced, that I make--that Trump would want to keep it from Fred. For all I know, and the little that is is consistent with the notion, Fred would have been PROUD of his chip-off-the-old-block win-at-all-costs Donnie. But then it wouldn't have taken till 2020 to be revealed, me thinks. Anyway, there is no corroboration, the closest is Pam Shriver's denial that her deceased husband would ever do such a thing, and I just don't find all of this to add up to an accepted Thing.
