Democrat Wes Moore's presidential ambitions imploded over the past 10 weeks, but you'd have to be a pretty close student of the Maryland governor to know it, since most of the mainstream press is in cahoots with the aspiring 2028 Democratic presidential cohort.
Our Andrew Kerr has published two blockbuster investigative reports about Moore that undercut key elements of his life story—first, his boasts about being some kind of a "foremost expert" on radical Islam, based on an Oxford University graduate thesis that he can't produce and that the school doesn't have on file in its library, and second, his oft-repeated tale that his great-grandfather was chased out of the country by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. These claims are part of Moore's long and well-documented history of making self-aggrandizing and provably false assertions about his biography. In that sense, the Potomac River overflowing with crap, apparently the largest wastewater spill in American history, is an apt metaphor for the governor himself.
Pressed by CBS News correspondent Norah O'Donnell about the mystery of his missing thesis, Moore gave a nonresponse response, telling her that he "received a Master's degree at Oxford University in international relations," that he was "the first African-American Rhodes Scholar in the history of Johns Hopkins University," and that he is "a person of honor and integrity" who was "raised right" by his family. If you have to say it…
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