Liberal Forum

Fabulism is a word often associated with politicians. It means inflating or embellishing your resume or simply making things up that you believe will attract voters. The most prominent example of recent vintage is Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who, as the VP nominee for Kamala Harris, made demonstrably false claims about his military record, about being in Tiananmen Square during the uprising there in 1989, and even regarding his time as a football coach. And now, Maryland governor Moore has a similar problem.

In applying for a White House fellowship during the George W. Bush administration in 2006 following a one-year deployment for the Army to Afghanistan, Moore declared in his ultimately successful application that, “As a Rhodes Scholar, I took advantage of the opportunity and examined radical Islam in the Western Hemisphere … my research has led me to be touted as one of the foremost experts on the threat.” But in the small world of scholars of Islam in the West, his name had never popped up, as reported by the Washington Free Beacon in its article entitled “Wes Moore 2028 Drowning in River of Bulls–t.” Moore claimed to have been a doctoral candidate after he received his master’s degree, but his thesis has never been produced, and there’s no evidence he was ever a doctoral student.

Gov. Moore also claimed that he had been inducted into the Maryland College Football Hall of Fame, an organization that doesn’t exist; that he received a Bronze Star for his service in Afghanistan, which he had not; and that he was born in Baltimore, which he was not. He claimed to have had “a difficult childhood in the Bronx and Baltimore” despite attending New York City’s elite, private Riverdale Country School – which John F. Kennedy attended. It turns out he was actually born in Takoma Park, MD, a comfortable DC suburb.

https://www.libertynation.com/trump-tak ... 2026-02-20

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