The campaign of President Donald Trump moved a Wednesday event to be headlined by the president’s daughter-in-law after a Freeport brewery canceled and its owners said they were misled over the scope of the event.
Brad and Nancy Nadeau, the owners of Stars and Stripes Brewing, reached out to the Bangor Daily News on Tuesday after an article posted on Monday nightcited a Trump campaign news release saying the brewery as the first stop of a “Women For Trump” bus tour on Wednesday evening. The tour is scheduled to end on Thursday in New Hampshire.
The Nadeaus said on Tuesday they had initially been told that some members of the campaign were going to come in for a beer while getting pizza from an adjacent restaurant. Brad Nadeau said he was told late Monday that Lara Trump, the Republican president’s daughter-in-law, would be there and reporters may come as well, but he did not know it would be a formal event.
Stars and Stripes does not host political events or endorse candidates. Brad Nadeau, a Marine veteran of the Iraq war, said it hosts fundraisers for other causes, including veteran groups. Stars and Stripes is not “anti-Trump” or “anti-anything,” he said. The brewery is not politically involved and will now close on Wednesday because of the attention, he said.