As NewsBusters reported Tuesday, Bill Maher on NBC’s Tonight Show offered Donald Trump $5 million to prove that he wasn’t “the spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan.”

Later in the day, MSNBC’s Martin Bashir actually echoed Maher’s contention challenging Trump to come out and disprove it (video follows with transcript and commentary):

MARTIN BASHIR, HOST: For decades, scientists and clinicians have labored in vain to develop a theory that would help explain Donald Trump. But it’s the nation’s top political humorist who may finally have cracked the puzzle that’s perplexed some of our finest minds.