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Mar 12, 2019 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Suddenly remembering that string of pledges by your father to Penn/Wharton in the 1990s — totaling at least $1.5 million — that coincided with the 1996 and 2000 enrollment there of you and Ivanka respectively: thedp.com/article/2016/1…
Also recalling great reporting from Trump biographer Gwenda Blair, that President Trump was only admitted to Wharton — after transferring from Fordham — as a special favor from an admissions officer who was an acquaintance of Trump’s brother, Freddy: thedp.com/article/2015/0…
And then there was that time in 1998, when Jared Kushner was starting to look at colleges, that his father, Charles Kushner, pledged $2.5 million to Harvard (which Jared later attended). Via Dan Golden for @ProPublica : propublica.org/article/the-st…
My pal @dinabass noted 22 years ago in the Penn paper that President Trump stepped up his $ pledges to Wharton just around the time that Don Jr landed there — and long before Jr began his self-owning blitz on Twitter. (h/t @BrandyZadrozny)

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