Washington (CNN) – Donald Trump left one New Hampshire crowd with the distinct impression that he's running for president in 2012, according to a conservative activist present in the room for a closed-door meeting with the business mogul in Dover on Wednesday.
Andrew Hemingway, chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, told CNN that Trump appeared to be "deadly serious about running."
"Today they were talking to people about hiring staff," Hemingway said. "He was joking about how the lawyers make him say 'If I run' and that type of stuff. He is serious. He is going to run."
Hemingway was one of dozens of Republican activists, operatives and party officials summoned to meet with Trump as he made his maiden trip to the first-in-the-nation primary state as a potential presidential candidate.
Trump arrived in Portsmouth Wednesday morning and held a press conference at the airport before hitting the road for a series of meetings in the Seacoast area, including one sit-down with New Hampshire GOP Chairman Jack Kimball.
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And the Republicans hide behind Trump and now out of embarrassment blames the President for being required to do what no other president in the history of this country has been asked to do. Is it hard to figure out why? No. Obama is black and George Bush and every other president was a white male. Now that Trump has made a total fool of himself, he now plans to investigate Obama's educational background because he believes a black male is incapable of going to an Ivy League school like Dan Qualye or George Bush, neither of whom were very intelligent or bright. After all, they are white males and beyond having their credibility questioned. Donald Trump has no clue of the issues facing the average American citizen so he has to attempt to distract the public by using his money and influence to discredit a President that he can not otherwise defeat. The new campaign slogan is, "This is not a Reality Show". Our country has serious problems and we have no time to play such pathetic games while people are suffering! Birthers should just come out and tell the truth, they are racist and upset that a black man is in the White House. There is no logic to their thought process because they are blind to the truth. There is no acceptable amount of proof for ignorant people!
Trump is giving ideas that no other candidate is....he is not going to go after entitlements, he is not going to raise taxes, he wants to bring jobs back to the u.s. and make other countries pay for u.s.a. protection and tax imports. Maybe he sounds crazy, but it sounds like out of the box thinking that no other candidate has come up with.