[Details at NewsBusters.org] Nearly 27 years before Donald Trump actually announced he was running for President, then-NBC News correspondent Chris Wallace pressed a 42-year-old Trump about his political ambitions during an interview at the 1988 Republican National Convention. Not surprisingly, Trump at that time said if he did run for President, “I’d have a very good chance....When I do something, I like to win.”
The August 17, 1988 video, pulled from the MRC’s TV News Archive, also shows Wallace and then-NBC anchor Tom Brokaw chiding the “tycoon” about his wealth. Brokaw introduced Trump as “someone who has prospered enormously during the years of Reaganomics,” while Wallace told Trump how “some people say” he was a “conspicuous example” of the “greed” associated with the Reagan years.