Meet the Man Who Encouraged Donald Trump to Run for President in 1987

Aug 12, 2016, 10:31 PM

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Decades before Donald Trump would rise to the Republican presidential nomination, a political activist from New Hampshire saw in him the makings of a commander-in-chief and "planted a seed."

Mike Dunbar, now 69, launched a "Draft Trump" campaign in 1987, based largely on what he had read about Trump's career in the Wall Street Journal.