Senior Trump official embellished resume, had face on fake Time cover

[tenderfoot]

WASHINGTON — A senior Trump administration official has embellished her résumé with misleading claims about her professional background — even creating a fake Time magazine cover with her face on it — raising questions about her qualifications to hold a top position at the State Department.



An NBC News investigation found that Mina Chang, the deputy assistant secretary in the State Department's Bureau of Conflict and Stability Operations, has inflated her educational achievements — like claiming, falsely, to be a Harvard grad — and exaggerated the scope of her nonprofit's work.

Whatever her qualifications, Chang had a key connection in the Trump administration. Brian Bulatao, a top figure in the State Department and longtime friend of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, attended a fundraiser for her nonprofit in Dallas and once donated $5,500 to her charity, according to a former colleague of Chang's.

Chang, who assumed her post in April, also invented a role on a U.N. panel, claimed she had addressed both the Democratic and Republican national conventions, and implied she had testified before Congress.

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"Here you are on Time magazine, congratulations! Tell me about this cover and how it came to be?" asks the interviewer, who hosts a YouTube show.

"Well, we started using drone technology in disaster response and so that was when the whole talk of how is technology being used to save lives in disaster response scenarios, I suppose I brought some attention to that," Chang said.

The interviewer says Chang brought the Time cover to the interview as an example of her work.

Time magazine spokesperson Kristin Matzen said the cover is "not authentic."

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hang says in her official biography that she is as an "alumna" of Harvard Business School. But according to the university, Chang attended a seven-week course in 2016, and does not hold a degree from the institution.

Her biography on the State Department website says she is a "graduate" of a program at the Army War College. But the program she attended was a four-day seminar on national security, according to the college.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/senior-trump-official-embellished-resume-had-face-fake-time-cover-n1080356

[MFGsunny]

1. Talk about FAKE. She learned all she needed to know from her Bigly Top Boss.

To work as the deputy assistant secretary in the State Department's Bureau of Conflict and Stability Operations, this some kind of dramatic irony or just "the Stupid?"

[dalton99a]

2. She is highly qualified for a job in the criminal regime

known as the Trump administration

[Nevilledog]

3. Where was her background check?

[Beakybird]

4. She is the type of ballsy liar America needs

to destroy our democracy.

[AJT]

5. How did she get a security clearance?

WTF FBI.

[dalton99a]

9. The president or a designee can overrule clearance checkers.

[madaboutharry]

6. There is so much to say about this story, but I'll start here:

Very attractive woman schmoozes powerful men and worms her way into a position for which she is not qualified. Are you following me? I am not saying that sex was involved but I don't doubt her ability to make someone think there might be. This story is as old as the hills. She obviously has the ability to charm and convince people of competence. Putting "Harvard Business School" on your resume takes real balls. It also takes a full blown sociopath to manufacture a life that doesn't exist.

And it takes an incompetent administration without a single person tasked with the job of picking up the phone and undertaking a vetting process.

Trumpworld. What else is new?

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Business ethics, once again, trying to seep into government.

No can does.

[chowder66]

8. I wonder what did she had access to? nt

[Firestorm49]

10. Rather typical for this administration, wouldn't you say?

Vetting? We don’t need no stinking vetting!

[Mike 03]

11. What other administration would so poorly vet officials that they could ever

possibly fall for a fake Time magazine cover? Fifteen minutes on a search engine probably could have prevented this.

[Grammy23]

12. She probably got the idea for a Time magazine cover from tRump.

Doesn’t he have a fake magazine cover or two, including Time??

[KY_EnviroGuy]

13. Trump appointees actually have resumes?

I thought they were hired based on appearance, connections to GOP donors and ability to spew bullshit.....

[gibraltar72]

14. Imagine that.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. Just like her boss

Trumpy had a fake Time mag cover.