Palin, Trump to Meet in NYC

The Hill reports:

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) will meet with real estate mogul and erstwhile presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday in Manhattan.

Palin, who's in the midst of a national bus tour that embarked from Washington and stopped several places in Pennsylvania today, will meet with the host of NBC's "The Apprentice" at Trump Tower.

The pair will dine elsewhere, and a spokesman for Trump declined to provide additional details about the meeting.

Still, the meeting is likely to attract considerable attention for readers of political tea leaves; Trump had flirted with running for president and gained some traction in the polls, only to withdraw from the race this month after re-upping for another season of his reality TV show.

Palin had some praise for Trump during his short-lived campaign, which received quite a bit of coverage as the reality television start spoke of his skepticism about whether President Obama was born in the U.S. The White House eventually released Obama's long-form birth certificate to try to put an end to the story.