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Donald Trump announced Monday that he will not be a 2012 presidential candidate.
The real estate mogul noted in a statement that he has been unofficially campaigning for the past several months, but has determined politics is not his first priority. "Business is my greatest passion and I am not ready to leave the private sector," Trump said.
Trump's announcement caps three months of public flirtation with a run for the nation's highest office.
The businessman burst onto the political scene in February at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference as a guest of Republican gay rights group GOProud. Trump soon made national headlines for sympathizing with "birthers"--those who doubt that President Obama is a U.S. citizen, born in Hawaii--and launched a quest to force the president to release his long-form birth certificate. He quickly rose to the top of multiple national polls of the 2012 race.
The real estate mogul noted in a statement that he has been unofficially campaigning for the past several months, but has determined politics is not his first priority. "Business is my greatest passion and I am not ready to leave the private sector," Trump said.
Trump's announcement caps three months of public flirtation with a run for the nation's highest office.
The businessman burst onto the political scene in February at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference as a guest of Republican gay rights group GOProud. Trump soon made national headlines for sympathizing with "birthers"--those who doubt that President Obama is a U.S. citizen, born in Hawaii--and launched a quest to force the president to release his long-form birth certificate. He quickly rose to the top of multiple national polls of the 2012 race.