Trump to Malzberg: I Was Vilified for Obama ?Birther? Challenge
Monday, 04 Feb 2013 07:50 PM
Billionaire businessman Donald Trump told veteran radio broadcaster Steve Malzberg on Monday that he was vilified by the mainstream media for offering to donate $5 million to charity if President Barack Obama released his college transcripts.
They all came to his defense: How dare Trump do that? Trump said on the premiere of The Steve Malzberg Show on Newsmax TV in New York. It was $5 million that can go to Sandy, but I wouldve been willing to pay much, much more than that.
It was incredible, Trump added. Its absolutely incredible how hes protected.
During the 2012 presidential campaign, Trump launched a controversial birther campaign against President Obama, claiming that Obama was not born in Hawaii.
I offered him $5 million if he showed, just showed, these college transcripts and also some documentation. Very simple stuff. Passport documentation. And he didnt do it, Trump said. Then, I gave him a certain number and I said I would raise it very, very substantially from $5 million, and he still didnt do it.
The mainstream media thought it was terrible that I had asked for that, Trump added. He couldve made a lot of money for showing a few documents literally, a few pages worth of documents and maybe some passport documentation.