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schema:url	http://www.snopes.com/fact-check/coach-admissions-obama-tennis/
schema:text	On 12 March 2019, the U.S. government indicted over 40 people, some of them celebrities, in a college admissions scandal that allegedly involved their bribing college coaches to accept students as sports recruits even when those students had no experience in those sports. One of the coaches named in these indictments was Gordon Ernst, who served between 2006 and 2018 as the head men’s and women’s tennis coach at Georgetown University: Ernst was also at least somewhat close with the Obama family. A January 2014 New York Times profile of then-First Lady Michelle Obama discussed how Ernst had helped her and her daughter Malia with their tennis games: "[Michelle Obama] takes occasional tennis lessons with Malia or has clinics with friends to work on their swing. In addition to her forehand, 'Michelle has a big backhand,' said Gordie Ernst, who coaches mother and daughter." This coincidence has been used to suggest that former U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife had to bribe colleges to accept their elder daughter during her college admissions process. For example, the website “Joe for America” ran an article misleadingly titled “Busted: Obama Family Linked to College Bribery Scandal as the Kids Tennis Coach Accepted Nearly $3 Million in Bribes.” However, the article itself provided no evidence that the Obama family bribed their daughter’s way into college, nor did it even attempt to make that argument — a textbook example of clickbait. Malia Obama decided to attend Harvard University in 2016. She was not accepted as a tennis recruit or as an athletic recruit of any kind. The extent of the connection between the Obamas and the admissions scandal was the tangential coincidence that Michelle Obama and her daughters took lessons from someone who was later indicted in that probe.
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schema:reviewRating	Mostly False
schema:author	snopescom
schema:datePublished	2019-03-18 (xsd:date)
schema:inLanguage	English
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