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RE: Trump Projected His Academic Shortcomings Onto Obama
March 7, 2019 at 9:29 pm
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(March 7, 2019 at 7:10 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (March 7, 2019 at 5:35 pm)Yonadav Wrote: 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?
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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.
(March 7, 2019 at 8:41 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: 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.
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RE: Trump Projected His Academic Shortcomings Onto Obama
March 8, 2019 at 7:08 am
Oh, I see. The article in the Post didn't fit your preferred narrative, so it MUST be nefarious journalists attempting to break the law, even though law-breaking is BAU in Trump's inner circle. Gotcher.
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RE: Trump Projected His Academic Shortcomings Onto Obama
March 8, 2019 at 7:15 am
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RE: Trump Projected His Academic Shortcomings Onto Obama
March 8, 2019 at 7:29 am
(March 8, 2019 at 7:08 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Oh, I see. The article in the Post didn't fit your preferred narrative, so it MUST be nefarious journalists attempting to break the law, even though law-breaking is BAU in Trump's inner circle. Gotcher.
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I don't have a preferred narrative. What is there about what I am saying that I would 'prefer'? If you believe that those people who called Trump's school, asking the school to turn Trump's records over to them were legit, I really do want to sell you a bridge.
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RE: Trump Projected His Academic Shortcomings Onto Obama
March 8, 2019 at 8:10 am
(March 8, 2019 at 7:29 am)Yonadav Wrote: (March 8, 2019 at 7:08 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Oh, I see. The article in the Post didn't fit your preferred narrative, so it MUST be nefarious journalists attempting to break the law, even though law-breaking is BAU in Trump's inner circle. Gotcher.
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I don't have a preferred narrative. What is there about what I am saying that I would 'prefer'? If you believe that those people who called Trump's school, asking the school to turn Trump's records over to them were legit, I really do want to sell you a bridge.
Well, ta for the offer, but I've already got a bridge.
But the point is that you're making a wild-arsed guess about the people who contacted Trump's school, with nothing more to go on than your own feeling. Which, quite frankly, is a pretty moronic way to reach a conclusion.
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RE: Trump Projected His Academic Shortcomings Onto Obama
March 8, 2019 at 8:32 am
(March 8, 2019 at 8:10 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (March 8, 2019 at 7:29 am)Yonadav Wrote: I don't have a preferred narrative. What is there about what I am saying that I would 'prefer'? If you believe that those people who called Trump's school, asking the school to turn Trump's records over to them were legit, I really do want to sell you a bridge.
Well, ta for the offer, but I've already got a bridge.
But the point is that you're making a wild-arsed guess about the people who contacted Trump's school, with nothing more to go on than your own feeling. Which, quite frankly, is a pretty moronic way to reach a conclusion.
Boru
No, you are moronic if you think that people were asking for Trump's records as anything other than a pretext. Everyone knows that it is illegal for the school to hand those records over to anyone other than the student. Two days after Trump asked Obama to voluntarily release his academic record (which is something that no president has ever been asked to do), people were trying to illegally get Trump's records.
This has media generated story written all over it. I want good news coverage. I don't want a Trump obsessed media creating its own news about their efforts to get Trump's records.
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