Donald Trump's military school grades were withheld
The New York Military Academy withheld these files in 2011 at the behest of friends of the future US president.
When it comes to talking about his school career, Donald Trump is rarely caught up in false modesty. During the presidential campaign, he thus claimed to have been "one of the best students" of the New York Military Academy, a private military school where the American president spent his adolescence, between 1959 and 1964.
Was Trump that brilliant? To find out, all you need to do is look at his transcripts. Not that simple. According to the Washington Post, the New York Military Academy hid Donald Trump's school records in 2011 after very urgent requests from friends of the future US president.
At that time, Trump was the main face defending the theory that Barack Obama was not born in the United States and therefore could never have been elected head of the country. He had also challenged the president to publish his academic results, wondering how he had been able to enter universities as prestigious as Columbia or Harvard. “I know friends whose sons are very smart and yet they can't get into Harvard,” he argued.
"It is the only time that I transferred the files of a former student"
A few days after these statements, a curious scene occurred, as recounted by Evan Jones, then principal. He told the Washington Post that the director of the New York Military Academy, Jeffrey Coverdale, "came to see (him) panicked because he had been approached by influential and wealthy former students who were friends of Mr. Trump." and wanted his academic results to be kept secret.
Jeffrey Coverdale for his part claims to have rejected a request from members of the board of directors of the establishment to be given the school records of Donald Trump. But he moved these documents elsewhere on campus. “This is the only time that I transferred the files of a former student,” he says.
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, was he behind the maneuver? Evan Jones says he ignores it. Last week, Cohen explained to a parliamentary committee that one of his missions was to threaten the schools the president had attended so that they did not publish his grades.
