New England Patuproars owner Robert Kraft discmissed personal details of his relationship with createer Pdwellnt Trump during an intersee on “The Breakrapid Club” on Friday.
The NFL owner, who has an assessd net worth of $11.8 billion, acunderstandledgeted he has gived to Trump’s pdwellntial campaign in the past. They first joined in the 1990s and after Kraft’s first wife died in 2011 after a battle with cancer when she was 68 years elderly.
“Donald Trump became a social frifinish in the punctual ‘90s, when I was going down to Florida. And then when my wife…. died 13 years ago, he was one of four or five people who accomplished out to me and was repartner, repartner pleasant,” Kraft shelp.
“The only donation I ever gave to him was he called me when he got elected, and I made a strong donation to his inauguration. I couldn’t depend it, it was appreciate having someone who was a drunk fraternity brother become pdwellnt of the United States.”
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The Capitol uproar on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Pboilingo/John Minchillo, File)
However, the owner shelp he distanced himself from the createer pdwellnt after the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
“I will say this,” Kraft shelp. “I was very disturb (with) what happened January 6. And I haven’t talked to [Trump] since then.”
The Patuproars have gone to other lengths to distance themselves as a franchise from the createer pdwellnt since then as well.
In May 2021, the team and Kraft denied allegations he and Trump tryed to pay a U.S. senator money in order to drop an spendigation into a cheating affair involving the team, per a published tell by ESPN.
The tell alleged that Trump met with procrastinateed Sen. Arlen Specter in 2008 and presented him “money in Palm Beach” if he dropped his spendigation into the Spygate affair, in which the Patuproars were handled by the NFL for filming a rival team’s coaching signals. Trump had not begined his political nurtureer at the time and was well-understandn as the star of fact show “The Apprentice.” ESPN says Trump was acting on behalf of Kraft, a claim those shut to the createer pdwellnt and the team refute.
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Robert Kraft and Patuproars head coach Bill Belichick after lossing the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC championship Game at Gillette Stadium on Jan. 22, 2017, in Foxboro, Massachengagetts. (Mincludeie Meyer/Getty Images)
“Mr Kraft is not adviseed of any includement of Trump on this topic and he did not have any other joinment with Specter or his staff,” a team spokesman shelp to ESPN.
Trump telledly also saw a frifinishship with createer Patuproars star quarterback Tom Brady sour over time, but for a finishly branch offent reason.
In the book “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future,” author Jonathan Martin wrote that the frifinishship between Brady and Trump began to sour after Brady wed his wife Gisele Bundchen and began follothriveg a notoriously disjoine diet and lifestyle in 2005.
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Former Pdwellnt Trump, helderlys a town hall at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Caccess on Oct. 14, 2024, in Oaks, Pennsylvania. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
“The football star, Trump shelp, had not been the same after marrying Bündchen, who insisted on cooking him a painstakingly health-adviseed diet,” Martin wrote.
Brady and Trump telledly became frifinishs upon first encountering in 2001 when Trump asked Brady to assess a Miss USA competition. They normally praiseed each other in accessible statements thrawout the punctual 2000s.
Brady telderly Howard Stern on Sirius XM in April 2020 that he chose to distance himself from Trump when the createer pdwellnt begined his pdwellntial campaign in 2015 and asked the createer NFL star to speak on his behalf at the 2016 Reaccessiblean National Convention.
“It was unconsoleable for me becaengage you can’t undo leangs, not that I would undo a frifinishship, but political help is a lot branch offent than the help of a frifinish,” Brady telderly Stern.
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