But sitting behind Trump was ex-congressman Mark Foley, who resigned in disgrace in 2006 after sending sexually explicit messages to underage teenage boys.
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Following the Trump gathering, Foley confirmed to MSNBC his support of Trump’s presidential bid, and said that the two have a longstanding relationship.
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”.
US President Barack Obama and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton “founded” the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group in the Middle East region, according to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Foley’s appearance comes as Trump continues to bash Hillary Clinton after Seddique Mateen – the father of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen – attended her rally in Kissimmee, Florida on Monday.
Although the elder Mateen had nothing to do with his son’s crime, he has appeared in unusual YouTube videos, portraying himself as an Afghan leader, sympathetic toward the Taliban and hostile to the US-backed Pakistan government, the Washington Post reports. He later told a reporter for WPTV, a Palm Beach-based NBC affiliate, that he wanted to attend the rally as a member of the public and a Clinton supporter.
Not surprisingly, Donald Trump was quick to take advantage of the opportunity.
Trump said that his comment this week about “Second Amendment people” preventing Hillary Clinton from appointing judges should not be construed as potentially inciting violence among his supporters. “So when she said, ‘Well, we didn’t know.’ He knew, they knew”.
Tur, a London-based foreign correspondent assigned to the Trump campaign mostly because she happened to be in NBC’s NY newsroom at the right (or wrong) moment, describes the Trump campaign as “like covering a hurricane that makes landfall on a daily basis”, moving from one rally to the next and one controversy to another. “They’re gonna be famous”.
He said: ‘Hillary Clinton gave a speech today having to do with economic development, having to do with a lot of different things. I’ve admired so much of what he’s done.
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Virginia, another state Mr. Trump is hopeful to win in order to get to 270 Electoral votes, was reported on by Ms. Haberman and Mr. Corasaniti this way.
