Birthday notes among Trump documents released by Clinton library

Bill Clinton's presidential library released more than 450 pages of documents related to Donald Trump on Tuesday, papers with no major revelations but some tidbits that include a media question about the prospect of a Trump presidential campaign back in 2000.

In what appears to be a transcript of an interview, then-President Clinton is asked about reports that celebrities like Trump, Cybill Shepherd, Jesse Ventura, and Warren Beatty were reportedly considering presidential bids, and whether the office was demeaned by the impeachment and Monica Lewinsky episodes.

"I don't think what I've done has anything to do with such political developments," Clinton said. "We go through all sorts of cycles in politics and we're in one now where some people from the entertainment world are talking about running for president. That's not a first by the way. So it's a free country. People can chart their own course and the political process will sort out the wheat from the chaff. I'm not concerned about it."

The newly released documents also include "notes sent from President Clinton to Trump on the occasion of his birthday," as well as "Trump’s invitations to White House events and a photo-op Donald Trump shared with the President at the Trump Towers in New York," the library said.

Trump comes up in passing in many of the documents.

A 1993 letter to the president from a New Jersey man named Tony August proposed a Clinton-Trump friendship, saying that "if you two don't know each other you should" and "you have much in common." He cited age, "vision for the future," and "the resources and desire to make America bigger and better than it already is."

Another document from March of 1993 analyzes a "national referendum" on government reform conducted by 1992 independent candidate Ross Perot, questioning its methodology.

Noting the unreliability of phone or mail-in polls, including the possibility of voting more than once, the document said: "In one Paste BN poll on Donald Trump, three out of every four calls were traced to Trump associates."

The library also said its collection "consists of an invitation for the President to attend a charity dinner in Atlantic City" and "an autographed copy of Mr. Trump’s 1987 book The Art of the Deal," as well as "printed database entries concerning Trump’s invitations to White House events."