Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed LGBT Americans have been drawn to his message following the recent mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
“The LGBT community, the gay community, the lesbian community – they are so much in favor of what I’ve been saying over the last three or four days,” the presumptive Republican presidential nominee told voters in Atlanta, Ga.
“A friend of mine called up, he said, ‘You don’t get enough credit because in Palm Beach you opened a club that nobody would do and it’s open to everybody,” Trump said, referring to his Mar-a-Lago resort, which opened its membership to gay guests in the 1990s.
During a speech on Monday, Trump slammed his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton as “no ally of the LGBT community.”
“Clinton wants to allow radical Islamic terrorists to pour into our country – they enslave women, and murder gays,” he said. “I don’t want them in our country.”
Trump doubled down on his call for a ban on non-American Muslims seeking to enter the U.S. in the wake of the terror attack in Orlando. The shooting left 50 dead and 53 injured, making it the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history and the worst domestic terror attack since Sept. 11.
“We have to check the mosques and we have to check other places,” Trump said Wednesday. “We have to stop on a temporary basis people pouring into our country until we figure out what the hell is going on.”
