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Military Academy Buried Trump’s Academic Records: WaPo

After wealthy alumni reportedly accosted the school's superintendent in 2012 to keep the transcripts from getting out.

President Trump's wealthy friends and fellow alumni of the New York Military Academy reportedly told the superintendent of the school to bury his academic records after he challenged Barack Obama to release his in 2011. The Washington Post reports the alumni told then-superintendent Jeffrey Coverdale to hand over Trump's records, but Coverdale said he refused. Instead, he took the records and secured them so no one else could have access. “I moved them elsewhere on campus where they could not be released,” he was quoted as saying. “It’s the only time I ever moved an alumnus’s records.” At the time, Trump was reportedly considering challenging Obama in 2012 and had suggested that Obama was not qualified to attend Columbia or Harvard—where he went to undergrad and law school. According to the Post, Trump even said he'd donate $5 million to charity if Obama would release his college transcripts. Trump has reportedly boasted about his academic success, although he never released any records to back those claims up. Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney, told Congress last week that the president had previously ordered him “to threaten his high school, his colleges and the College Board to never release his grades or SAT scores.”