Gov. Moore's Resume

EXCLUSIVE: Wes Moore Won a Key White House Post Claiming He Was 'Touted as a Foremost Expert' on Radical Islam and Was Studying for an Oxford PhD—But His Thesis Is 'Missing' and There's No Evidence He Was Ever a Doctoral Student

As he positions himself as a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, the governor with the golden résumé is likely to face mounting scrutiny for repeated exaggerations and falsehoods regarding his athletic, academic, and military achievements

Wes Moore (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

By Andrew Kerr, Washington Free Beacon

Maryland governor Wes Moore, now considered a serious prospect for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, got his big break in 2006. Fresh off a one-year deployment to Afghanistan, President George W. Bush awarded Moore, then 27, a White House fellowship, a prestigious, year-long internship during which he served as a special assistant to then-secretary of state Condoleezza Rice. It put Moore on the path to ultimately becoming Maryland's governor, and he won the fellowship—in the turbulent years after 9/11—claiming to be a "foremost expert" on radical Islam thanks to his academic work at Oxford University.

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