Donald Trump

Report: NBC Giving Donald Trump A Big Raise

Eric Lach | June 22, 2011, 9:38AM

NBC Universal is renewing Donald Trump's contract to host "The Celebrity Apprentice" for two years, and giving Trump and his co-producer Mark Burnett a big raise, according to The New York Post.

The deal will apparently net Burnett and Trump a total of around $160 million, and Trump will personally take in $65 million a year.

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Topics: Donald Trump, NBC

Donald Trump

Orly Taitz: Obama's Long-Form Birth Certificate Should Say 'Negro' Not 'African'

Ryan J. Reilly | April 27, 2011, 11:55AM

In a development that will surprise no one, it turns out that President Barack Obama's decision to release his long-form birth certificate hasn't quieted members of the "birther" movement who promote the conspiracy theory that he wasn't born in the United States.

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Topics: Barack Obama, Birthers, Birthright citizenship, Donald Trump, Orly Taitz

Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin Cites Ludicrious Claim That Obama Spent $2 Million In Birth Certificate Fight

Ryan J. Reilly | April 11, 2011, 12:10PM

Sarah Palin says she isn't a birther. But she swallows hook, line and sinker the ludicrous claims birthers have made about how much money President Barack Obama spent "hiding" his birth certificate.

In an interview on Fox News, Palin backed Donald Trump's purported investigation into Obama's birth certificate, but claimed she wasn't herself a birther. Nonetheless, she cited the discredited claim that Obama spent $2 million to keep his birth certificate from the public.

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Topics: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Sarah Palin

Donald Trump

Tea Partiers Rallying In DC Praise Donald Trump's Birther Stance (VIDEO)

Ryan J. Reilly and Jillian Rayfield | March 31, 2011, 5:26PM

In the span of just a few weeks, real estate mogul turned reality television star turned Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump went from dipping his toe in the birther pool to diving right into the deep end and claiming that he's "starting to wonder" whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States.

So we figured it'd be good to ask the Tea Partiers in attendance for the "Continuing Revolution" rally on Capitol Hill on Thursday if speaking out on the issue boosted Trump's presidential campaign.

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Topics: 2012 elections, Barack Obama, Birthers, Donald Trump, Tea Parties, Tea Party Patriots

'Ground Zero Mosque'

Donald Trump Offers To Buy Park51 Building -- Developer Declines

Rachel Slajda | September 9, 2010, 5:53PM

Donald Trump today sent a letter to the developer of the Cordoba House, offering to buy the building proposed for the downtown Manhattan Islamic center for 25 percent more than the developer paid for it.

"I am making this offer as a resident of New York and citizen of the United States, not because I think the location is a spectacular one (because it is not), but because it will end a very serious, inflammatory, and highly divisive situation that is destined, in my opinion, to only get worse," Trump said in a letter, according to Bloomberg.

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Topics: 'Ground Zero Mosque', Cordoba House, Donald Trump