Trump says he made 'a lot of money' in deal with Gadhafi
Donald Trump says he made "a lot of money" in a deal years ago with Moammar Gadhafi, despite suggesting at the time he had no idea the former Libyan dictator was involved in renting his suburban New York estate.
"Don't forget, I'm the only one. I made a lot of money with Gaddafi, if you remember," Trump said in an interview with CBS' "Face the Nation" that aired Sunday. "He came to the country, and he had to make a deal with me because he needed a place to stay."
"He paid me a fortune. Never got to stay there," Trump said. "And it became sort of a big joke."
The presumptive Republican nominee was talking about a bizarre incident in 2009, when Gadhafi was in desperate search of a place to pitch his Bedouin-style tent during a visit to New York for a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly.
