and the idea is they would not be retrievable by current members of the school staff. michael cohen said he threatened the schools, did you find out if cohen was behind this in. as he said last week was threatening trump s colleges and high school and ordering them to make sure there was no record of his academic acloohievement tha was available. that s the message that filtered down to the headmaster and superintendent at the military academy. he was not in direct contact with school officials but this was filtered through other people. who knows where the president s high school records are now? that s not clear. the folks at the military academy aren t talking. at all schools the president attended. people are saying these are records that are governed by privacy law and not available to
intelligence. he said he heard that obama was a terrible student and he should show his school records. the headmaster at mr. trump s own high school got an order to help find trump s school records and help bury them. first let s point out this all came from something michael cohen said last week that the president was determined people not see his academic records. i m providing the committee today with several documents. copies of letters i wrote at mr. trump s direction that threatened his high school, colleges and the college board not to release his grades or s.a.t. scores. joining me tonight is washington post reporter mark fisher. can you just explain how president trump s high school records were buried? yeah. this is going back to 2011 when trump was considering running for president in 2012 and he was out there attacking president
high school records didn t see the light of day. where did that pressure come from? was it a call from michael cohen? was it donald trump? who wanted them concealed? this was not from cohen directly, this was filtered through a number of wealthy alumni who were friends of mr. trump and this took place within hours, about 48 hours after that clip that you showed of president trump threatening president obama and demanding that he turn over his records. well, in this case, after a couple of days after that speech, the people at the school got word from wealthy alumni that they needed to go down into the basement, retrieve the student records of donald trump, remove them and hand them over to those alumni supposedly for safe keeping. it really was an ethical dilemma for the leaders of the school because they were being ordered for the first time in their career to remove a student s records and hand them over to
last week, that the president was determined people not see his academic records. i am providing the committee today with several documents. copies of letters i wrote at mr. trump s direction that threatened his high school, colleges, and the college board not to release his grades or s.a.t. scores. well, joining me tonight is washington post reporter mark fisher. mark, can you just explain exactly how president trump s high school records were buried? yeah. this is going back to 2011, when trump was considering running for president in 2012 and he was out there attacking president obama, saying tea should release his academic records and that he was a poor student. and immediately after that, within hours really, after trump made that statement the top officials at the new york military academy where trump had gone to school for five years received calls from wealthy alumni who were friends of
were threatened to keep donald trump s transcript hidden and the university of pennsylvania where donald trump transferred made no public comment and the washington post is reporting friends of donald trump tried to seize his high school records in 2011 right after donald trump said that he wanted president obama to quote show his records because donald trump believed that barack obama was quote a terrible student. the word is, according to what i ve read that he was a terrible student when he went to ox dental. maybe that s right or wrong but i don t know why he doesn t release his records. it s against the law for schools to publicly release student s transcripts but ivy league schools like the university of pennsylvania and harvard where barack obama graduated from law school do make public records of the students who graduate with honors and then ivy league schools most students actually graduate with honors, not