How Ross Perot helped pave the way for Donald Trump’s presidency
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Henry Ross Perot, in addition to being a successful businessman, was one of the most successful "He was different. He was extraordinarily successful in business and that was a point in history, like today, where a lot of people were fed up with politics as usual," Craig Patrick, a political editor at FOX 13 Tampa Bay told FOX TV Stations. "There were economic changes at that time, just as there are today, and with that, you had a plainspoken billionaire who decided to insert himself into the race." Perot’s appeal...