"I am making this offer as a resident of New York and citizen of the United States, not because I think the location is a spectacular one (because it is not), but because it will end a very serious, inflammatory, and highly divisive situation that is destined, in my opinion, to only get worse," he wrote.
Trump further stipulated, as part of the offer, that if a mosque is to be built, "it would be located at least five blocks further from the World Trade Center site."
Trump said he would pay cash for the site "with an immediate closing."
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