Seddique Mateen, the father of Omar Mateen, the shooter who attacked the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June, was spotted in the crowd behind Hillary Clinton at a rally in Kissimmee, Florida on Monday.
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Not only that, Mateen – whose son murdered 49 people at a gay nightclub just up the road from where Clinton gave her speech – endorsed the Democratic nominee.
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”.
A reporter of the Palm Beach-based NBC affiliate station ran into Mateen by chance after the rally and was able to ask him why he was at the Democratic rally.
When asked about attending an event in close proximity to the site of the shooting, Mateen told WPTV that he wished his son had joined the U.S. Army and fought ISIS.
“The first thing I want to say is that club should have had good security”, the Afghani immigrant told Sky News. He didn’t indicate whether the Clinton campaign was aware of his attendance, saying “Why should they be surprised?” NBC affiliate WPTV identified one attendee as Seddique Mateen, the father of Omar Mateen, who was killed in a shootout with police after carrying out the deadliest mass shooting in modern USA history.
“Why should they be surprised?” Based on a homemade sign, Seddique Mateen apparently is a fan of Hillary Clinton’s gun control agenda, in particular, among other things.
He said: “Hillary Clinton is good for United States versus Donald Trump, who has no solutions”. Mateen, who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, was shot eight times by police.
Mr Mateen has previously shown a number of controversial political views.
Mateen said his family has been cooperating with investigators and declined to further comment about the case.
You might remember all of those pictures of Seddique Mateen in Washington DC meeting with State Department officials and Democrat members of congress. “No one owns them & they are Durand Line Destroyer”.
The same Seddique Mateen who proclaimed himself president of Afghanistan and declared in one of his freaky YouTube videos: “Our warrior brothers in [the] Taliban movement and national Afghan Taliban are rising up”.
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Seddique Mateen, a self-professed devout Muslim, also condemned homosexuality.
