The Chronicle

Trump’s school grades won’t tell us anything we don’t know

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THE military academy once attended by Donald Trump was allegedly forced to hide his academic records after threats from the President’s allies.

Just days after the businessma­n challenged then-President Barack Obama, to prove he hadn’t been a “terrible student,” the headmaster at the private school was reportedly told to bury property mogul Trump’s test scores.

The order came in 2011 when Trump demanded Obama “show his records”.

He had attacked his Michael Cohen White House predecesso­r saying that he was surprised such a “terrible student” got into Ivy League Schools.

Evan Jones, headmaster of New York Military Academy at the time, has now revealed how his superinten­dent “came to me in a panic because he had been accosted by prominent, wealthy alumni of the school who were Mr Trump’s friends” and wanted to keep his academic records secret.

He was told: “You need to go grab that record and deliver it to me because I need to deliver it to them.”

Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, has testified to a congressio­nal committee that one of his jobs was to threaten lawsuits against the schools that Trump attended so they would never release his grades.

Anyone who has read Trump’s Twitter feed will be fairly certain that he wasn’t top of his class. He can’t string together a sentence longer than five words, and he can barely read a teleprompt­er.

Do we really need to see his scores to know he’s a dimwit?

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Efforts were allegedly made to hide Trump’s academic record
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Lawsuit claims:

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