Trump Projected His Academic Shortcomings Onto Obama

[Yonadav]

People claiming to be alumni donors. They weren't. If you believe that they really were Trump's buddies, I have a really good deal for you on a bridge.

The school had to go looking for Trump's records and secure them. It is a violation of federal law for an employee to leak them. The administration knew that the calls for Trump's records were pretexts. When you know that someone is trying to gain access to a former student's records, you have to take steps to secure them.

During George W's presidency, someone with access to his school records leaked them. That's pretty much where this sort of ugliness started.

How do you know they weren't alumni donors?  Seriously, do you know the names or backgrounds of the people involved, or is this just supposition on your part?

Boru

Because I recognize an obvious pretext when I see one. The school administrators recognized it too. That's why the secured the records. People were trying to get them, and they were probably in a cardboard box in the basement where even the janitors had access to them. So they had to secure them.

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And why is he ashamed of his academic record? The whole world knows he's no rocket surgeon.

Probably because he lied about being a top student. But seriously, presidents have never released their academic records (although they also haven't lied about their grades like Trump almost certainly has). George W's academic records were leaked by someone who violated federal law by leaking them.