Pre-candidacy Trump demanded that BarackObama release his academic records, then military academy officials say they were told to hand over Trump's.
In 2011, days after Donald Trump challenged President Barack Obama to "show his records" to prove that he hadn't been a "terrible student," the headmaster at New York Military Academy got an order from his boss: Find Trump's academic records and help bury them.
The former NYMA officials' recollections add new details to one of the allegations that Michael Cohen, the president's longtime personal lawyer and fixer, made before Congress last week. Cohen, who told the House Oversight and Reform Committee that part of his job was to attack Trump's critics and defend his reputation, said Trump ordered him "to threaten his high school, his colleges and the College Board to never release his grades or SAT scores.
At the academy, which modeled its strict code of conduct after the nearby US Military Academy at West Point, Trump loved competing to win contests for cleanest room or best-made bed. Although not known as an academic standout, he was a prominent baseball player and was well-known on campus for bringing women there and showing them around.
The boarding school had no formal archive at the time. Jones said he combed through the basement of Scarborough Hall on the academy's sprawling campus 60 miles north of New York and found the real estate mogul's transcript in file cabinets containing student records. The White House did not provide a response to The Post's request for comment Monday. Leaders of the academy's board from that time also did not respond to requests for comment. Nor did Cohen or the school's current superintendent, Jie Zhang.
In 2011, when the military academy was asked to secure Trump's records, he had not entered politics formally. But he was considering challenging Obama in the 2012 campaign and had been making the rounds on TV, stepping up his criticism of the president, including insinuating that Obama was not qualified for admission to Columbia University, where he finished his undergraduate degree, or Harvard University, where he went to law school and graduated magna cum laude.
Then, according to Pezzullo, when the school's graduates made their pitch, Trump responded by asking, "What do I get for my $7 million?"
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