Michael Cohen: Trump sent letters to his schools threatening them not to release his test scores

[babylonsister]

Hypocrite.


Michael Cohen: Trump sent letters to his schools threatening them not to release his test scores
[The Independent]
Tom Embury-Dennis
,The Independent•February 27, 2019


Donald Trump threatened his high school and college with legal action in order to prevent them releasing his exam scores, according to explosive testimony Michael Cohen is due to deliver before Congress.

Mr Cohen, the US president’s former lawyer and personal fixer, will tell the House oversight and reform committee on Wednesday how his then client directed him to send letters warning Mr Trump’s schools against releasing his grades.

The revelation is part of a larger picture Mr Cohen plans to sketch of Mr Trump as “a racist, a conman, and a cheat” who, he will claim, knew his campaign was communicating with WikiLeaks in order to damage his 2016 presidential rival Hillary Clinton.

“When I say conman, I’m talking about a man who declares himself brilliant but directed me to threaten his high school, his colleges, and the College Board to never release his grades or SAT scores,” Mr Cohen will say, according to a transcript first obtained by the New York Times.

“As I mentioned, I’m giving the committee today copies of a letter I sent at Mr Trump’s direction threatening these schools with civil and criminal actions if Mr Trump’s grades or SAT scores were ever disclosed without his permission.”

He will continue: “The irony wasn’t lost on me at the time that Mr Trump in 2011 had strongly criticized President Obama for not releasing his grades.”

Mr Trump branded Barack Obama a “terrible student” in an interview nine years ago with the Associated Press, in which he pressured the former president to release his academic records.

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[watoos]

1. It sounds trivial but

public information like this will eat at Trump. I would like to see his diploma. Did he even graduate from Wharton undergraduate school? I know he never went to Wharton Business college.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. How many times have we said that if a Republican accuses a Democrat of anything,

he is probably projecting, or transferring his own transgressions.

[TheBlackAdder]

3. If his papers are archived, I'm sure an analysis would show multiple authors.

[world wide wally]

4. For Trump to say he is smarter, or was a better student than Obama is like Pee Wee Herman

Saying he can bench press more than Hulk Hogan

[TygrBright]

5. Delight is in the little details...

enchantedly,
Bright

[murielm99]

6. Actually, I don't think it is terrible

to ask that the information not be released to the general public. It can be done the right way, though. He did not have to make threats.

[mac56]

7. None of this was necessary.

Transcripts, etc. are already protected. They require a signed release from the student.

So the thuglike threats weren't even needed.

[Joe Nation]

8. Exactly, FERPA protects your records even from your parents

n/t

[NewJeffCT]

9. Do you think Trump realizes that he was protected?

or, does he think the school will release them to a reporter if the reporter slips some student intern in the college academic office $50 or something?

[milestogo]

10. I'd love to see a school go public with one of these.

[Ilsa]

11. I wish the records were hackable.

I wonder if they are?

[Scurrilous]

12. K&R