Trump Praises Ted Nugent at Kansas Rally Despite Past Allegations

Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Donald Trump took time out of a campaign rally in Kansas to praise Ted Nugent, a MAGA rocker who has boasted and sung about having sex with underage girls.

Nugent joined the 80-year-old president at a rally in Wichita on Monday night to show support for Republican Sen.

Roger Marshall, who is trailing Democratic candidate Adam Hamilton in multiple polls with the Nov.

3 midterms just weeks away.

Toward the end of his speech, Trump told the crowd he was happy he had “got to watch” the 77-year-old rocker on the same stage the previous night while making no mention of the sordid history about the singer whose 1981 song “Jailbait” describes him wanting to commit statutory rape on a 13-year-old girl.

“He’s pretty good.

But he’s been a friend of mine from the beginning.

He’s a man that gets it.

He’s a guy with common sense,” Trump said.

“He’s smart as hell, actually.

He plays the game.

Like, you know, ‘Oh, let’s be country and all.’ But the truth is, he’s country, but he is one smart cookie, and he gets it and understands what’s happening, Ted Nugent.” Allegations against Nugent have dogged the singer for years, but have never led to criminal charges.

In a 1998 documentary for VH1’s Behind the Music , Nugent admitted to having sex with multiple underage girls.

“I was addicted to girls.