Haberman’s anecdote about Trump seems to mirror a story from a 2017 artice in The New Yorker, which claimed that the former president mocked Pence’s right-wing Christian beliefs, such as overturning the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Trump also asked Singer to join him for the press conference, but Singer declined, saying he was a low-profile person and was heading back to New York City.

He then added, “the gays, they love me,” noting that the line in his GOP convention speech that received the most applause was a vow to “protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology” - a reference to the Pulse nightclub shooting and the threat radical Islam poses to LGBTQ rights.

Pence began to leave the room, at which point, Trump allegedly gestured toward the vice president and said, ‘you’re not like those guys, that kind of conservative?”

Trump followed up by asking Singer if he was gay, to which he replied he wasn’t, but his son was. According to The Washington Post, in 2012, Singer started American Unity PAC, a political action committee designed to support LGBTQ-friendly Republicans in state legislative elections.

Singer replied that he was quite conservative on economic issues but more moderate on other issues, such as gay rights, noting that he had been involved in efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in individual states.

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