Patriots owner Robert Kraft reveals Trump's connections, donations and why they no longer speak to each other

Owner of Robert Craft's New England Patriots The former president revealed personal details about her relationship with Trump during an interview on “The Breakfast Club” on Friday.

NFL owner, worth estimated at $11.8 billion, admitted to donating to Trump's presidential campaign In the past, they were first linked in the 1990s and after Kraft's first wife died in 2011 after a battle with cancer when he was he is 68 years old.

“Donald Trump became a socialite in the early 1990s when I went 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 they were really: really nice,” Kraft stated.

“The only donation I gave him was when he called me when he was elected and I made a sizeable donation at his inauguration. I couldn't believe it. It was like a drunk frat brother becoming president of the United States.”

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Malik, however, said that he distanced himself from the former president after the January 6, 2021 incident.

“I will say this,” Kraft said. “I was very upset about what happened on January 6. And I haven't talked to (Trump) since then.”

Since then, the Patriots have gone to another level to distance themselves from the former president as a franchise.

In May 2021, Tim and Kraft denied allegations that he and Trump tried to pay a U.S. senator to drop an investigation into the party's cheating scandal. Reports published by ESPN.

Reports claim that Trump met with the late Sen. Arlen Specter in 2008 and offered to pay him “in Palm Beach” if he dropped the investigation into the Spygate scandal, in which the Patriots were punished by the NFL for filming a player's coaching signals on a rival team. Trump had not yet embarked on a political career and was best known as the star of the reality show “The Apprentice.” ESPN said Trump acted on Kraft's behalf, a claim denied by the former president and people close to the party.

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Robert Kraft and Patriots head coach Bill Belichick after defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC Championship Game at Gillette Stadium on January 22, 2017 in Foxboro, Massachusetts. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

“Mr. Kraft is unaware of any involvement by Trump in this matter and has had no other contacts with Specter or its staff,” a team spokesman told ESPN.

According to reports, Trump also developed a friendship with former Patriots star Tom Brady over time, but for completely different reasons.

In the book “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America's Future,” author Jonathan Martin wrote that the friendship between Brady and Trump began to sour when Brady married his wife Gisele Bundchen and began following a notoriously strict diet. Lifestyle in 2005.

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Former President Trump speaks at a town hall at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center on October 14, 2024 in Oakes, Pennsylvania. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

“The football star, Trump said, was not the same after marrying Bündchen, who insisted that he follow a scrupulously health-conscious diet,” Martin wrote.

Brady and Trump reportedly became friends in 2001 when Trump asked Brady to judge the Miss USA pageant. Since the early 2000s, they have regularly praised each other in public statements.

Brady told Howard Stern on Sirius XM in April 2020 that he decided to distance himself from Trump when the former president launched his 2015 presidential campaign and asked the former NFL star to speak on his behalf at the 2016 Republican National Convention.

“It was uncomfortable for me because you can't take anything back. “Not to destroy a friendship, but a political endorsement is very different than a friend's endorsement,” Brady told Stern.

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