The father of the shooter who terrorised a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in June attended a campaign rally on Monday for Mrs Hillary Clinton, compelling her campaign to move quickly to distance itself from him.
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“Hillary Clinton is good for United States versus Donald Trump, who has no solutions”.
The “NBC Nightly News” did not report the Mateen story at all, according to the center, while the “Today” show gave only 32 seconds to the story on Wednesday. He became more prominent after his son killed 49 and injured 53 at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. And by the way. a lot of the people here – how many of you people know me?
“In any ordinary year, this would be an episode that would set the Clinton campaign back at least a week because this is a awful unforced error”, GOP strategist Margaret Hoover said.
Mateen claims that he was invited to the rally but the Clinton campaign said that Mateen was not invited but that the event was open to the public.
“Should your campaign have known that Omar Mateen’s father was at your rally yesterday?” the reporter questioned the Democrat’s presidential nominee. The rally took place in Kissimmee, Florida, on Monday, less than 35 minutes south of Orlando.
Mateen said that he was “invited by the Democratic party”. Seddique went on to explain why he attended the Kissimmee rally in support of Hillary Clinton.
On Wednesday he drew attention to the emergence of emails from Clinton’s use of a private server when she was secretary of state during President Barack Obama’s first term, from 2009-2013. “Wasn’t it awful when the father of the animal who killed the wonderful people was sitting with a big smile on his face right behind Hillary Clinton?” he said.
“I support everything Clinton has to say, especially her gun control measures”, adding that he had hoped his son could join the fight against ISIS.
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Foley told the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel he has been a long-time friend of Trump’s and has found him to be “a different breed of leader and a different breed of candidate”.
