“When you get those seats, you sorta know the campaign”, he said Wednesday.
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Seddique Mateen, the father of the man who murdered 49 people and injured dozens more in Orlando in June, occupied a similar seat behind Clinton at an event Monday.
Foley was forced to resign from Congress in 2006 after allegations he engaged in sexually suggestive messages with teenage boys working as congressional pages.
The Trump campaign has yet to address Mr. Foley’s attendance.
“A lot of you know me”, Trump said.
As Trump attacked Hillary Clinton for letting the Orlando shooter’s father sit near her at a rally, a disgraced politician was sitting behind Trump.
“The people behind me, they’re all on television”, he said. His supporters agree with him, blaming media bias for Trump’s recent slide in the polls. They’re going to be famous … “Wasn’t it bad when the father of the animal that killed the wonderful people in Orlando was sitting with a big smile on his face right behind Hillary Clinton?”. “It wasn’t a big deal”, Foley said this morning.
“I’ve lost a diamond earring, a gold ring, a glove, two hats, a blazer, and one boyfriend (au revoir, Benoit), who said of my schedule: ‘This is not what we do in France, ‘” she writes.
After the event, Foley acknowledged that he was supporting Trump for president, telling MSNBC that Trump has “been a friend of mine for 30 years and one of my biggest contributors”. “He’s a different breed of leader and a different breed of candidate”.
A report on CNN pointed out that the seats behind Trump where Foley was seated had been marked with signs that read, “RESERVED”.
Republican businessman and presidential hopeful Donald Trump will be in Kissimmee Thursday for a campaign rally. A Clinton campaign spokesperson told reporters she “disagrees with his views and disavows his support”.
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Clinton made national headlines because the father of the Pulse massacre gunman, Omar Mateen, was sitting in the crowd directly behind her.
