Seddique Mateen, the pro-Taliban father of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen, endorsed Hillary Clinton and attended her rally in Kissimissee, Florida. “I want them to know we will be with you”. Trump added: “If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks, although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know”.
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Clinton campaign manager Robbie Mook accused Trump of suggesting violence.
The unusual paths of some gunshots support eyewitnesses who said people were crouching under tables and hiding in toilet stalls.
Crowley said he believed it was probably junior staff members or volunteers who seated Mateen right behind Clinton.
Mateen and Clinton Donald Trump reacted to the story in an interview with Fox host Sean Hannity Some readers reacted with questions to the story in Yahoo News. He said he and Hansen posed for pictures with the Democratic presidential nominee backstage after the event.
Two months later, there is Seddique, listening as Clinton laid out her policies and paid tribute to the men and women massacred by his son just 20 miles from the site of the rally.
On Clinton’s campaign website, the only information requested in the RSVP for the Kissimmee rally was a first and last name, email address, phone number and ZIP code.
Clinton met with victims’ family and friends during a visit to Orlando in July.
Seddique Mateen, a self-professed devout Muslim, also condemned homosexuality.
Asked if he thinks people would be surprised by his appearance at the rally, he said: “It’s a Democratic party, so everyone can join”. Seddique Mateen was front and center at the event, and the Clinton campaign was reportedly unaware who he was at the time.
A Clinton aide said: “The rally was a 3,000-person, open-door event for the public”.
“Hillary Clinton is good for United States versus Donald Trump, who has no solutions”, he was quoted as saying. He also showed a sign he had made in support of the Democratic nominee. “I don’t approve of what he did”, Mateen told CBS.
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After the rally, WPTV caught up with Mateen to ask him a few questions regarding his presence at the event.
