The Orlando shooter’s father attended a Hillary Clinton rally in Florida, and sat behind her while she spoke

Following is a summary of an Orlando WPTV article

A local television station WPTV noticed that Seddique Mateen, the father of the Pulse Nightclub shooter attended a Hillary Clinton rally in Kissimmee, Florida, being on camera seated directly behind her above her shoulder during her entire speech.

The television station caught up with Mateen after the rally and spoke with him briefly in the parking lot, and then later at a rest stop.

Mateen said, “Hillary Clinton is good for United States versus Donald Trump, who has no solutions.”

When he was asked about his decision to go to the event which was very close to the Pulse Nightclub, he said, “I spoke a lot about that and wish that my son joined the Army and fought ISIS.  That would be much better.”

When asked if Clinton knew he would be at at the event and sitting directly behind her, he said, “It’s a Democratic party, so everyone can join.”

Finally when he was asked if the thought if some people would be surprised to see him there, he said, “Why should they be surprised?  I love the United States, and I’ve been living here a long time.”

When the Clinton campaign was asked about his attendance, it responded in a tweet, “The rally was a 3,000-person, open-door event for the public.  This individual wasn’t invited as a guest and the campaign was unaware of his attendance until after the event.”