Analysis: Why Trump Jr. mocked the parents caught up in the college admissions scandal
President Trump and Donald Trump Jr. attend a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York in 2017. By Eugene Scott Eugene Scott Reporter covering identity politics for The Fix Email Bio Follow March 13 at 5:04 PM President Trump’s surrogates seemed to take a certain kind of glee in shaming those accused Tuesday of participating in a college admissions scandal.
“These parents are a catalogue of wealth and privilege,” he said Tuesday. “This case is about the widening corruption of elite college admissions through the steady application of wealth combined with fraud. There can be no separate college admission system for the wealthy, and I’ll add there will not be a separate criminal justice system, either.”
— Donald Trump Jr. March 12, 2019 I’m learning some new ones as we speak. Stay tuned. https://t.co/ftJjYtMUxt When the president transferred to the University of Pennsylvania’s business school after two years of receiving “respectable” grades at Fordham University, he was able to interview with a “friendly” Wharton admissions officer who was a former classmate of Trump’s older brother, according to Gwenda Blair’s book “The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire.”
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