Don’t take Michael Cohen’s word for it—Fordham University, one of the president’s alma maters, has confirmed that it did, in fact, receive a threatening letter warning it not to release Donald Trump’s grades in the lead-up to the 2016 election, supporting the embarrassing allegation his former fixer made in his explosive testimony on Wednesday. Bob Howe, a spokesperson for the university, said in a statement to the Associated Press that the school received a call from someone on Trump’s team, as well as a follow-up letter from a Trump attorney threatening to “take action against the university if we did, in fact, release Mr. Trump’s records.”

“We told the caller that Fordham is bound by federal law, and that we could not/would not reveal/share any records (as we would not reveal any student records) with anyone except Mr. Trump himself, or any recipient he designated, in writing,” Howe said, according to the Fordham Ram, Fordham’s student journal. (The superintendent’s secretary from the New York Military Academy told the A.P. that officials “have no record of communication with Trump’s legal team”; the University of Pennsylvania and the College Board declined to comment.)

It’s an especially ironic demand coming from Trump, who frequently brags about his intelligence. Not only has he proclaimed himself a “stable genius” with “the best words,” those he dislikes are deemed “not smart,” “stupid,” or “wacky.” He took special pains to question the intelligence of Barack Obama, calling on the then-president to “[open] up and [give] his college records and applications”—part of his campaign to cast Obama as a “terrible student.”

As Cohen testified Wednesday, Trump fought to keep his own grades secret, directing his former fixer to threaten his alma maters not to release his transcripts—something they said they couldn’t legally do anyway. “I’m talking about a man who declares himself brilliant, but directed me to threaten his high school, his colleges, and the College Board to never release his grades or SAT scores,” Cohen told the House Oversight Committee.

Cohen’s claims that Trump has been involved in several criminal schemes obviously garnered the most attention. The information the ex-attorney provided on the president’s participation in his campaign-finance violations, his possible knowledge of Roger Stone’s shady dealings with WikiLeaks, and his potential encouragement of Donald Trump Jr.’s foolhardy efforts to score dirt on Hillary Clinton from a Kremlin-linked source could all add to his already significant legal and political problems. But Cohen’s testimony also hit Trump where it hurts most: his ego. Trump’s alleged genius is a cornerstone of his vanity. And though Cohen’s tamer revelations aren’t likely to change hearts and minds when it comes to the president, they at least seemed to rattle Trump, who blasted his former fixer as “shameful” in remarks to the press on Thursday. “He lied about so many different things,” he said.

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