Donald Trump said Thursday was a “very,
very sad day” after President Barack Obama
did not meet his noon deadline to release
his college and passport application records
in exchange for $5 million to a charity of
the president’s choosing.
“All the president had to do is give simple
documentation, simple paper, a few pages
and a charity would have gotten $5 million,
or substantially more,” Trump said in a
video posted on his Facebook page.
“Whether it was Wounded Warriors,
whether it was the American Cancer Society,
whether it was even the relatives of the
victims of Beghazi, which I think would be
an appropriate situation, the president
decided that he wouldn’t be doing it.”
Trump made the offer last month in another
video posted on Facebook and Twitter,
while Obama laughed off the offer on an
appearance on “The Tonight Show with Jay
Leno.”
“In fact, just the opposite: He spent millions
of dollars in legal fees to keep his records
secret. There’s a total lack of transparency,”
the mogul added in Thursday’s video.
“Someday, those papers will come out and
people will say, ‘You know what? Donald
Trump was right.’ This is very, very sad day
for the United States of America.”