White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany falsely pumped up the academic background of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee this morning, claiming that she’s a Rhodes Scholar, and then brushed off her claim with a dismissive, “My bad.”
Amy Coney Barrett is not a Rhodes Scholar; she did not receive a Rhodes Scholarship from Oxford University in England. Instead, Barrett is an alumnae of a small liberal arts college in Memphis, Tennessee called Rhodes College.
McEnany later acknowledged, asked by @justinsink, that she meant that Coney Barrett attended Rhodes College. "My bad," she said.
— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) October 1, 2020