Friday, January 11, 2013

Did you hear about the Maher-Trump kerfuffle?

Bill Maher Offers Donald Trump $5 Million If He Can Prove He's Not An Orangutan  "You might remember a "New Rules" segment Maher did on "Real Time" last year where he insisted that Trump is the spawn of his mother and an orangutan. Well, now Maher is offering $5 million to the charity of his choice if he can prove otherwise, an obvious jab at Trump's similarly ludicrous offer to President Obama."

So Trump did release his birth certificate:
Naturally, an artsy-craftsy lib source cries, "forgery".

Fox News' Megyn Kelly gives us the story and a debate on the issue: 
Donald Trump: I Will Sue Bill Maher If He Does Not Pay Up $5M   "Donald Trump plans to sue Bill Maher if the HBO host does not pay the $5 million he wagered when asking the real estate mogul to release his birth certificate.
"Earlier this week, while appearing on The Tonight Show, Maher made the offer of $5 million to charity of Trump releases his birth certificate and proves that he was not the “spawn” of his mother having sex with an orangutan.
"A day later, Trump released his birth certificate and demanded Maher honor the wager and pay up soon.
"Extra’s A.J. Calloway caught up with Trump, who said, “[Maher] made the offer, I accepted his offer, and he owes me $5 million, which I am going to give to charity. If doesn’t pay the money we will probably sue him.” (video)

JD Underground  First point of a discussion thread:
"What are everyone’s thoughts on The Donald supposedly accepting Bill Maher's offer to prove he is "not the spawn of his Mother having sex with an orangutan?" It appears Trump had his lawyer write Maher a letter with his birth certificate, and the list of charities he would like the $5,000,000 donated.
Could Trumps possibly win a breach of contract suit? At first glance, I said no because of the statute of frauds issue, but then I got to thinking that the Leno clip could be used to satisfy the writing requirement. Anyone familiar with New York contract law?
 This is the type of lawsuit that ends up in Contracts case books
artvandelay 

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