Patriots owner Robert Kraft opens up on Trump attending Super Bowl LIX, Tom Brady calling the game
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans, and his old friend President Donald Trump will be there too. Kraft gave his thoughts on Trump becoming the first sitting president to attend the big game in an interview with Fox News Digital. “It just shows you that maybe the NFL and the Super Bowl are important if we got the president of the United States coming as a guest,” Kraft said. Kraft said he donated to Trump in the past during an interview on “The Breakfast Club” in October.The owner, who has an estimated $11.8 billion net worth, said he first met Trump in the 1990s.“Donald Trump became a social friend in the early ‘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 reached out to me and was really, really nice,” Kraft said.“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 believe it.
It was like having someone who was a drunk fraternity brother become president of the United States.”However, the owner said he distanced himself from Trump after the events of Jan.6, 2021.“I will say this,” Kraft said.
“I was very upset (with) what happened Jan.6.
And I haven’t talked to [Trump] since then.”The Patriots have gone to other lengths to distance themselves as a franchise from the former president as well. In May 2021, the team and Kraft denied allegations he and Trump attempted to pay a U.S.senator money to drop an investigation into a cheating scandal involving the team, according to a report by ESPN. The report alleged Trump met with Sen.
Arlen Specter in 2008 and offered him “money in Palm Beach” if he dropped his investigation into the Spygate scandal, after which the Patriots were disciplined by the NFL for filming a rival team’s coaching signals. Trump had not started his political career at the time and was well known as th...