Real estate tycoon and armchair political analyst Donald Trump pushed his way back into the campaign cycle on Monday, promising to disrupt the election with a "very big" revelation about the President on Wednesday.
"Stay tuned for my big Obama announcement," Trump wrote on Twitter, following it up with a later tweet in which he told followers to "just wait and see!" "It's very big. Bigger than anybody would know," he later told "Fox & Friends," hinting it could "possibly" change the election.
Michael Cohen, an executive at the Trump Organization who serves as special counsel to "The Apprentice" host, declined to shed any more light on the announcement, reiterating only that it would be "very big."
I truly hope that he found something genuinely big and game changing, and he’s not just full of hot air the way he usually is.
Hopefully this will be better than Breitbart's big announcement.
Posted by: Camlost | October 23, 2012 at 10:11 AM
"I truly hope that he found something genuinely big and game changing, and he’s not just full of hot air the way he usually is."
I wouldn't count on it.
Posted by: Jokah Macpherson | October 23, 2012 at 10:25 AM
At this point, truly game-changing news would have to be something very good for Obama
Posted by: anonymous | October 23, 2012 at 10:30 AM
Enough hot air to fill a zeppelin.
Posted by: Peter | October 23, 2012 at 10:30 AM
Big or small, it will probably backfire.
Posted by: Gilbert | October 23, 2012 at 10:43 AM
Typical attention hording PR stunt. Doesn't MSM do this every election? Last election, it was Obama being "friends" with a communist minister while attending Columbia. Which won't affect typical liberal voters who are supportive of all belief systems, regardless of its potential harm.
If the information was truly "game" changing and election altering, why wait till Wednesday? Wouldn't it increase the chance of swaying more voters for it to be released earlier?
Hopefully it's Obama's GPA, SAT, LSAT scores and college transcript or better yet, a sex tape with a non-African American woman.
Posted by: Lexus Liberal | October 23, 2012 at 10:47 AM
the mogul who cried proof.
Posted by: CH | October 23, 2012 at 11:03 AM
in all seriousness, if trump the master self-promoter does have the goods on obama, it will, i predict, be something about a first marriage that was swept under the rug. perhaps a short betrothal to a white woman? or an indonesian native? it will probably tie in with all those old photos of college-aged obama wearing a gold band on his left ring finger.
Posted by: CH | October 23, 2012 at 11:05 AM
Could this be the much rumored Michelle Obama "whitey" tape?
Or does Trump perhaps have some grainy VTR footage of Barack Obama at a 1980's Columbia University campus rally sporting a Mao cap, Khmer Rouge scarf, and dashiki, with a copy of the Red Book in one hand, the other hand in a "black power salute", screaming "Kill the Crackers!"?
If only reality were so exciting!
Posted by: Wade Nichols | October 23, 2012 at 11:21 AM
It seems Obama has bruised Trump's ego and Trump now feels the need to rebuild his own ego by tearing down Obama as hard as he can. Trump is currently in a highly emotionally charged and frenzied rage and little will stop him from trying to tarnish Obama.
Posted by: Drole Prole | October 23, 2012 at 11:33 AM
New season of the apprentice starts up soon. Trump needs to be in the news for visibility. This will be nothing special.
Posted by: SOBL1 | October 23, 2012 at 11:36 AM
I think it's probably about Obama selling cocaine during college:
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/10/president-obama-sold-cocaine-college-trump-charges-republicans-reject
Posted by: Wade Nichols | October 23, 2012 at 11:53 AM
My bet's on some birther issue. The trouble is Obama has done a sufficiently good job pushing that idea into the nutball category that even someone with irrefutable evidence (something I don't think is possible on this type of issue)would be catergorized as such. I doubt he's got much, but my mind is open.
"Hopefully it's Obama's GPA, SAT, LSAT scores and college transcript"
I think it would take longer than the time remaining for this to have much effect.
"Wouldn't it increase the chance of swaying more voters for it to be released earlier?"
Initially, but that gives the campaign time for an effective counterattack.
Posted by: J1 | October 23, 2012 at 12:36 PM
"Obama selling cocaine during college"
That wouldn't hurt him all that much except with Romney's base. Trump is out of touch. And it should have been an issue last time around, now now. He's the incumbent and Romney is wise to eschew using it.
Posted by: jeanne | October 23, 2012 at 01:18 PM
He may be in the bag for Obama, and is going to confirm that Obama is a real qualified American citizen, as his team found out with all his research, even tho he needed proof..now he can confirm it...
...killing the side issue once and for all before the election and landing on the right side of honesty.....mainly his own...
Posted by: Buroaker | October 23, 2012 at 02:12 PM
If Trump's big "revelation" is a dud it could benefit Obama by generating sympathy and by bringing more blacks to the polls with a motivating, stick-it-to-whitey rallying point.
Posted by: Camlost | October 23, 2012 at 02:58 PM
Is this news going to be really big? Like anywhere near as big as Trump's ego?
Probably not.
Posted by: Anthony | October 23, 2012 at 04:31 PM
What if its his college application, and he put down his country of origin as Kenya?
It would be amusing (Obama was the first birther), but it won't change minds.
I agree that its most likely a let-down.
Posted by: Half Canadian | October 23, 2012 at 05:27 PM
In a sane society stories like Building Seven, Obama's Birth certificate, and Michelle's Princeton thesis would not disappear and become not only irrelevant, but considered toxic material discussed only by the insane.
Upside down world folks.
- Arturo
crimesofthetimes,com
Posted by: Arturo de Gheaube | October 23, 2012 at 06:21 PM
It'll be nothing. If it was really something big he would've unleashed it on Monday morning so he could watch Obama shit bricks on national TV that evening during the debate. Instead he's hyping it up for Wednesday? Why? And why did he say he's announcing it on Twitter? Methinks he's just fishing for more twitter followers. This is all par for the course for Trump. It fits his ego.
Posted by: Sennot | October 23, 2012 at 06:33 PM
Good to see you learned from being burned by him once. Although some of us predicted that way in advance.
Posted by: TGGP | October 23, 2012 at 06:44 PM
The world's richest "birther" wants some attention.
Posted by: BlogRaju | October 23, 2012 at 06:57 PM
Obama's mother was a US citizen. Even if there is some technicality regarding her age or some such, it will gain no advantage because having one parent be a citizen is all you need. Americans very emotionally believe that any American's child is an American. Period.
Now, if Trump has a genuine passport of little Barry indicating renounced citizenship because he is officially listed as a citizen of some other country, that is a problem. Also, documents showing that Obama applied to college as a foreign student or something. Now that could be big.
Posted by: not too late | October 23, 2012 at 08:18 PM
Record number of people voting on first day of early voting in Texas.
Harris County (Houston) 42k vs 39k the first day of early voting in 2008.
Posted by: not too late | October 23, 2012 at 08:21 PM
"Hopefully it's Obama's GPA, SAT, LSAT scores and college transcript"
I do hope Trump unveils his test scores. I'm particularly intrigued to see his SAT & LSAT scores even though I doubt they'd move the electoral needle one way or another.
Posted by: The Undiscovered Jew | October 23, 2012 at 10:40 PM
"It'll be nothing. If it was really something big he would've unleashed it on Monday morning so he could watch Obama shit bricks on national TV that evening during the debate."
My hunch is Trump's surprise won't be all that impressive, but I've got my fingers crossed for those mysterious standardized test scores.
Posted by: The Undiscovered Jew | October 23, 2012 at 10:42 PM
It's been leaked. Something about Michelle filing divorce papers 15 years ago. Yawn...
Posted by: Josh | October 23, 2012 at 10:58 PM
Maybe he has evidence that Michelle used to be a man. Wouldn't surprise me...
Posted by: Peter A | October 24, 2012 at 04:37 AM
Apparentely when Obama lost his election bid in Chicago the first time Michelle wanted to dump this zero and get with a hero. Why oh why didn't you just take a boring BIGLAW job and buy me things Barack.
Posted by: asdf | October 24, 2012 at 10:25 AM
He offered 5 million dollars to a charity of Obama's choice if he releases college information and passport information.
okay?
Posted by: Odds | October 24, 2012 at 12:09 PM
I just saw the announcement. Donald Trump is an idiot.
Posted by: AE | October 24, 2012 at 12:18 PM