President-elect Donald Trump has Tom Brady’s back, even if Brady won’t admit he voted for Trump in last week's election.
In Friday night’s edition of "OBJECTified" on Fox News Channel, Trump is asked about his relationship with the Patriots quarterback and for his thoughts about Deflategate.
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"He played better when he had the other ball (the one that wasn't deflated, presumably),” Trump says (via TMZ Sports). “I think Tom is totally incident.
"I know him. He's such an honorable guy, and I'm with him all the way."
Trump said at a campaign rally in New Hampshire the night before the election that he had Brady’s vote and that Brady signed off on him telling the world.
"He called today and he said, ‘Donald, I support you, you’re my friend, and I voted for you,'" Trump told his supporters. "… So I said, Tom, you voted for me, you support me, am I allowed to say it tonight to this massive crowd in New Hampshire? He said, 'If you want to say it, you can say it.'"
When asked the day after election about his support for Trump, however, Brady said his wife Gisele “said I can’t talk about politics anymore, so I think that’s a good decision made for our family."
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Then, this past Monday, Brady broke his promise to reveal how he voted.
"I'm not talking politics anymore," Brady said during his weekly appearance on Boston radio station WEEI. "I've got other things to worry about. Just speaking with my family, it's a bad idea. I know I told you I would, and then after I told you I would I changed my mind."
Brady’s coach, Bill Belichick, also supported Trump, according to Trump. Like Brady, though, Belichick deflected questions about politics, saying a letter he wrote to Trump was not necessarily an endorsement of his candidacy.