Shale oil tycoon backs Trump

Published April 22, 2016 7:24pm ET



Republican front-runner Donald Trump got a big energy endorsement from shale oil tycoon Harold Hamm on Friday.

Hamm, who was Mitt Romney’s 2012 energy policy adviser, called Trump the “business leader’s candidate,” underscoring the New Yorker’s background as a real estate mogul.

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