I have to agree. With the big build up, it sure was a let down, however, I can only imagine that there was something much larger that was pulled at the last minute for reasons unexplained as of yet...that may yet come to the surface.

For someone who has built an empire,Trump isn't very good at PR.Putting up $5 million for Obama's transcripts is an easy bluff because they were buried a long time ago.Obama got trough college as the patron saint of affirmative action. He couldn't argue a DUI case in court.

Hard to imagine what Trump thought he was doing with this year of political antics. Did they achieve anything? Did he think they might?

I have to say "no" and "no".

He isn't a naive man. Maybe he just liked the fun or thinks any publicity is good publicity.

So no one except Trump cares whether Obama is a citizen of Indonesia?

Trump was asked by Mitt to back off. The $5 mil offer was not the news he was going to reveal. It was all about down low.

Hopefully, if this makes Donald Trump irrelevant, I hope it does the same for Gloria Allred.

I think Trump should "double-down" on his offer. Raise it up to $10 million on Monday, if obama keeps quiet and does not respond over the weekend.

Trump should repeat his offer every day from now until the election. He should go on every show he can get on and repeat the offer. I don't think he is the least bit nutty.

Tell me one thing, what is wrong with Trump exercising his right to free speech and his right to expose the fake in the White House? Who else is trying to expose the poseur? My thanks go out to Donald Trump.

Lloyd Grove is doing what the dims do best, attacking the messenger. This article proves they are panicked. You don't attack "irrelevant" people.

It could be Al Capone's Geraldo moment.... Or not.

Who started the divorce paper meme? Arent you just a bit curious as to contents?

Since we cant get college, high school, or passport info- at least we can glimpse at a real paper trail!

The Donald has us talking- and Obama diverted.. Hmmmm.

Maybe the offer should have been to anyone that can produce those documents. Must be someone who can use 5 million bucks.

Does anyone consider that regardless of the man Donald Trump and his self-enhancing publicity stunts might actually cause someone else to think, and wonder why Emperor Zero has not released his college and passport records?

Do you suppose there might be someone else out there, arguably more credible, who might do a little research on this? Ask a few questions? Investigate this, for real, finally?

Someone else may actually wonder what many of us do ... why have Barcky People paid millions of dollars to keep these records hidden?

~ Tell me one thing, what is wrong with Trump exercising his right to free speech and his right to expose the fake in the White House? ~

I can tell you what it is, #8. I've finally figured out why people like Palin, Caine, Trump and so many others are attacked, beaten down and taken out at every opportunity. The 'going to war with the army you have' meme has always been offered as the reason that we sometimes have to accept candidates that are not exactly what we want - in fact are sometimes considerably less than what we want. I'm coming to understand, however, that it really means we go to war with the army that has been carefully culled to exclude 'undesirables'. You know the type; independent thinkers, bold speakers, not constrained by the Party line, the self directed as opposed to the followers. These are not allowed in the new, carefully crafted, army.

It's only a big tent if you bought your ticket at the right place.

I can think of a couple of potential achievements.

First, for the low-information undecided voters, this could be the first they've heard about 0bama's records being sealed. That could influence some of them to vote for Mitt.

And for those who have been paying attention to the campaign for a while, at one point both the Gloria Allred & Donald Trump media events were scheduled at around the same date/time, so IMO Trump's stunt drew attention away from or at least provided a counter-balance to Allred's & gave the impression - you have secrets to reveal on our guy, fine, we have secrets to reveal on yours as well.

This could have been a "shot across the bow" in the same way that a few weeks ago a mention or 2 of Mormonism brought a mention or 2 of Jeremiah Wright & then the Mormon comments subsided.

I don't think so. Trump is rich and rich, so whenever he speaks, people listen. As many posters agree, this calls attention to the fact that Obama has hidden all of his records, which the many bimbos I see in photo-ops at the rallies may not know. "Gee, you mean Obama doesn't reveal his college records? I thought he was the smartest man in the world, why would he hide them?" And after Oct. 31 deadline, maybe the Trump has something else to reveal, like "down-low" stuff!

Then again, Donald may simply be ratcheting up the pressure - if, after a couple of days, O doesn't bite, Donald says - I have the records...

#12, care to explain Ted Cruz in Texas?

Dewhurst was the establishment's candidate, all the way. All 31 of our Texas Senators backed Dewhurst (because he controls who is on what committee and who runs that committee).
Dewhurst went down in flames. The TEA Party and other normal Texans put Cruz into our US Senate.

It looks like the Republican Party establishment didn't quite get that "culling" thing right in Texas.

#5, that's what I thought, too. I.e., that the Romney campaign prevailed upon Trump to keep his bombshell under wraps.

And, that the bombshell involved the "down-low," and the arranged marriage with Michelle.

If we're right, I'm glad Romney kept his campaign from being sullied by the blowback that will surely come, once these dark aspects of Obama's past are brought out into the sunlight.

Trump's $5 million offer is harmless at worst. At best, it furthers the narrative about obama's mystery man past. In that obama and his hacks obviously don't like this topic, perhaps Trump should double down and keep the discussion alive, as an earlier poster suggested.

Could it be that #1 is correct. Is this a threat to Miss Allred to back off? It seems to have worked. Fight fire with fire.

The Donald = The Gloria.

I'm sure obama has a lot of skeletons that he fears will, ah-hem, come out of the closet one day. Trump just sent them another thing to panic about. I want to see a total meltdown, so high five to Trump. Rent space in his doggone head!

I had no expectations other that Trump would make a fool of himself, which he did. Please keep in mind that the November sweeps is coming up, and he wanted some publicity for himself and his idiotic show. The last time he made a "big" announcement, it coincided with the May sweeps.

As irrelevant as you and your propaganda rag are, Lloyd?

I doubt it...

I agree with #5 100%. The Donald had something much more sensational in mind, but was persuaded to back off.