Trump once offered $50 million for proof Obama born in U.S. Time to pay up?
First he offered $5 million, and then upped it to $50 million.
First, in 2012, Trump said he’d donate $5 million for that proof.
“If Barack Obama opens up and gives his college records and applications, and if he gives his passport applications and records, I will give, to a charity of his choice — inner city children in Chicago, American Cancer Society, AIDS research, anything he wants — a check, immediately, for $5 million,” Trump said in a video made in his Trump Tower office. “The check will be given within one hour after he released all of the records, so stated.”
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The deadline of that original offer was Oct. 31, 2012. At the time, Obama had already released his “long-form” birth certificate, showing he had been born in Hawaii. But Trump wanted more.
Two years later, Trump described his 2012 offer in a speech at the National Press Club. Trump said that, at the last minute, he had actually upped it to a whopping $50 million.
“Now then, what wasn’t reported by the press is, sometime just prior to the expiration date of that offer, I raised the offer to $50 million. $50 million! For charity,’ Trump said in 2014. “Pick your charity, for $50 million, and let me see your records! And I never heard from him.”
On Friday, Trump said he’d been convinced of Obama’s birthplace at last.
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