He added: “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?”.
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A disgraced former Florida congressman attended a Donald Trump rally in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on August 10, 2016. Trump asked the crowd.
The Florida congressman resigned in 2006 after he was caught sending lewd messages to male teenage congressional pages. “A lot of you know me!”
“Of course he likes Hillary because Hillary won’t say the words radical Islamic terrorism”, Trump said of Mateen’s father, who had no knowledge of his son’s plot to kill people at an Orlando night club in June.
Foley, who reportedly also attended Trump’s victory party the night he won the Sunshine State’s primary in March, was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement after a watchdog group leaked messages from Foley to young aides to law enforcement. But a WFOR-TV reporter said that Foley told her that the Trump campaign didn’t know he was there.
“When you get those seats, you sort of know the campaign”, Trump said, turning around and asking the supporters sitting behind him, “How many of you people know me?”
Foley told the Florida Sun Sentinel that he arrived hours early to snag a seat where he would nearly certainly appear on television, a trick he learned from attending State of the Union addresses in Congress. “He’s been a friend of mine for 30 years and one of my biggest contributors”, Foley wrote.
In an unorthodox move, Trump presented data on large, handheld cards to argue that Obama and Clinton have failed the country with their economic and security policies.
Yes, that’s disgraced former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley of Florida smiling behind the stage during the Republican presidential nominee’s rally in Florida. Later, in an interview with the Sun-Sentinel, Foley said, “I’ve been a friend of Mr. Trump’s since 1987”. “So when she said, ‘Well, we didn’t know.’ He knew, they knew”.
A Trump spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether Trump or the campaign knew that Foley would be in attendance.
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He told the outlet: “I like the energy”.
