The 436 acres were purchased in 1998 for $2 million with the intention of making a private golf course. He donated the land to the state in 2006 when he claimed its value to be $100 million.
Outside – A Brief History of Donald J. Trump State Park
Wikipedia – Donald J. Trump State Park
Trump made the comments about his then-24 year old daughter in a 2006 episode of The View. In interviews with Howard Stern, he also called her “voluptuous” and said she could be referred to as a “piece of ass.”
Independent – Donald Trump’s unsettling record of comments about his daughter Ivanka
Trump had cameos in three Playboy videos in 1994, 2000, and 2001. In one video, he interviews playmates and takes photos of clothed models. In another, he pours a bottle of champagne against a Playboy-branded limousine. In the third, he is shown at a Playboy fashion show.
Buzzfeed News – Donald Trump appeared in a 2000 Playboy Softcore porn
The Hill – Trump had cameo in softcore Playboy porn film in 2000
CNN – Two more Trump Playboy videos uncovered
Trump’s charity has since shut down over ongoing allegations about misused funds.
Trump’s lawyers later claimed that his charity only spent $10,000 on the painting, and was forced to because after they placed the initial bid at auction, no other bids followed.
The Washington Post – This is the portrait of himself that Donald Trump bought with $20,000 from his charity
USA Today – A look at the $20K portrait of Trump paid for by his foundation
The Hill – Photo shows $20K portrait Trump bought with foundation money
Business Insider – Trump lawyers say the president had to spend $10,000 on a painting of himself because no one else would
The fake Time cover featuring Trump was displayed in at least 4 of his golf clubs, including his famous property Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.
Mina Chang, a senior State Department official nominated by the Trump administration, was also caught padding her resume. Among other things, it included a fake Time cover.
The Washington Post – A Time magazine with Trump on the cover hands in his gold clubs. It’s fake.
Time – How To Spot a Fake TIME Cover
NBC News – Time Asks Donald Trump’s Golf Clubs to Remove Phony Magazine Cover
NBC News – Senior Trump official embellished résumé, had face on fake Time cover
In 2005, Trump was talking to Access Hollywood host Billy Bush when he described his attempt to seduce a married woman. He explained, “I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”
A video with the remark was leaked during Trump’s 2016 campaign. He dismissed it as merely “locker room talk.” Billy Bush was fired by NBC following the tape’s release. Though Trump initially apologized for the remarks, he later suggested that the tape was fake, before again admitting it wasn’t.
Trump had previously fired professional wrestler Maria Kanellis from Celebrity Apprentice for what he described as “locker room” talk.
Wikipedia – Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape
Politico – ‘Mother Is Not Going to Like This’: The 48 Hours That Almost Brought Down Trump
Chicago Tribune – NBC News fires Billy Bush after lewd Donald Trump tape airs
Business Insider – Trump reportedly suggested twice this year that the vulgar 2005 ‘Access Hollywood’ tape was a fake
Trump first met Daniels at a 2006 celebrity golf tournament. They took photos together, and he invited her to dinner in his hotel room. After promising her a spot on Celebrity Apprentice, they had unprotected sex. Just months prior, Trump’s wife Melania had given birth to Barron, her only child, and his fifth.
Daniels sold the story for $15,000 to a magazine in 2011, but it never ran and she was never paid. She alleged that soon after, a man approached her in a parking lot and directly threatened her over the story.
A month ahead of the 2016 election, Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, provided a $130,000 payment for her to maintain her silence. Cohen later pleaded guilty to campaign finance crimes for his role in facilitating the non-disclosure agreement.
Trump repeatedly denied that the affair happened, and that he didn’t know of any payments to her.
When Daniels spoke out, a prolonged legal battle began over her breaking the terms of the NDA. Her lawsuits to break the terms of the NDA were eventually dismissed. Trump took the opportunity tweet further denials, using his moniker for her, “Horseface.”
Within a month of denying any knowledge of the payment, spokesman Rudy Giuliani revealed that Trump had reimbursed Cohen for the $130,000.
Daniels filed three suits against Trump and his legal team to escape the NDA. One was dismissed, another was dismissed where Daniels was ordered to pay $293k in legal fees and went into an appeal process, and the third was settled.
Michael Cohen was eventually sentenced to 3 years in prison. In his testimony, he called Trump a con-man, a liar, and a cheat, and implicated Trump in his campaign finance violations.
Business Insider – Porn star Stormy Daniels is taking a victory lap after Michael Cohen’s guilty plea. Here’s a timeline of Trump’s many marriages and rumored affairs.
CNN – Stormy Daniels says she was threatened to keep quiet about Trump
CBS News – Stormy Daniels describes her alleged affair with Donald Trump
BBC News – Why the Stormy Daniels-Donald Trump story matters
Los Angeles Times – Stormy Daniels settles suit against Michael Cohen in hush-money scandal
The New York Times – Stormy Daniels Ordered to Pay Trump $293,000 in Legal Fees
ABC News – Trump says ‘much of the Stormy Daniels stuff’ a ‘political hoax’, ally says: ‘Those were his words’
Politifact – The timeline of Donald Trump’s explanations for the Stormy Daniels payment
Wikipedia – Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal
In 1989, a woman was raped and beaten in Central Park, and five black and Hispanic boys were arrested. Trump took out four full page advertisements calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty against the group who became known as the Central Park Five.
In 2002, a convicted murder and rapist confessed to the crime, and DNA evidence proved him to be the perpetrator while the Central Park Five were exonerated. Still, Trump has continued to claim that the Central Park Five were guilty.
The New York Times – Trump Will Not Apologize for Calling for Death Penalty Over Central Park Five
USA Today – ‘They admitted their guilt’: 30 years of Trump’s comments about the Central Park Five
The Week – Donald Trump’s 30-year crusade against the Central Park Five
When Trump was asked about whether his building sustained any damage in the September 11 attacks, he bragged about its size saying, “I mean, 40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually before the World Trade Center the tallest, and then when they built the World Trade Center it became known as the second-tallest, and now it’s the tallest.” His building was still not the tallest.
Trump also claimed that he predicted the 9/11 attacks, and tweeted about “haters and losers” on its anniversary.
Business Insider – Trump had an unusual reaction to 9/11 just hours after the attacks
The Washington Post – ‘And now it’s the tallest’: Trump, in otherwise somber interview on 9/11, couldn’t help touting one of his buildings
During a 1997 interview with Howard Stern, Trump referred to women’s vaginas as “potential landmines.”
He explained, “You know, if you’re young, and in this era, and if you have any guilt about not having gone to Vietnam, we have our own Vietnam — it’s called the dating game…Dating is like being in Vietnam. You’re the equivalent of a soldier going over to Vietnam.”
Trump received 5 draft deferments during Vietnam War, and said that John McCain was not a war hero because he was captured during the war.
CNN- Trump, comparing sex to Vietnam, said in 1998 he should receive the Congressional Medal of Honor
People – Trump Boasted of Avoiding STDs While Dating: Vaginas Are ‘Landmines … It Is My Personal Vietnam’
