James O'Keefe says Trump asked him to go on birther-linked mission
Source: CNN
Donald Trump in 2013 asked James O'Keefe, the controversial conservative filmmaker, if he could "get inside" Columbia University and obtain President Obama's sealed college records, according to a passage in O'Keefe's forthcoming book, a copy of which was reviewed by CNN.
O'Keefe, a guerrilla filmmaker whom critics have decried for his tactics and who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for entering federal property in 2010 under false pretenses, writes in "American Pravda: My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News" that during a meeting in New York City Trump complimented his ACORN sting videos ("That pimp and hooker thing you did, wow!" ). But, O'Keefe writes, Trump "was a man with a plan" and "did not agree to this meeting to sing my praises."
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According to O'Keefe, Trump "suspected Obama had presented himself as a foreign student on application materials to ease his way into New York's Columbia University, maybe even Harvard too, and perhaps picked up a few scholarships along the way."
O'Keefe wrote that during the 2013 meeting Trump suggested O'Keefe infiltrate Columbia and obtain the sealed records: "'Nobody else can get this information,'" O'Keefe quoted Trump as saying. "'Do you think you could get inside Columbia?'"
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O'Keefe told Trump that he was a journalist (ha!), not a private eye, and this wasn't his line of work. He added that at the end of the meeting, Trump shook his hand and half-whispered, "Do Columbia."
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And thus he became fixated on "beating" President Obama. Which is why it also seems like he just has a list of everything that President Obama has done and is specifically undoing each item on the list.
