Trump says Josh Allen was going to be No 1 pick in 2018 NFL Draft before social media posts surfaced

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Former President Donald Trump said that Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen was going to be the no. 1 overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft if it were not for offensive posts that surfaced shortly before the draft began. 

Allen had posts surfacing from when he was 16 and 17 years old that included the use of the N-word and a post that said, "if it ain’t White, it ain’t right," according to Yahoo Sports.

The now 28-year-old has since apologized for those posts and is in the midst of his seventh season with the Bills.

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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks during an interview with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait during an event with the Economic Club of Chicago on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024 in Chicago. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

"(The Bills) drafted a quarterback who was going to be the number one draft pick, and then he said things on the internet that weren’t good, you understand that, and he said, and they passed him," Trump said during a recent appearance on Barstool Sports’ "Bussin’ With The Boys."

"(Josh Allen is) an exciting quarterback too, but a great one, and so, he was going to be number one, and then they found things they didn’t like, and people passed on him for that, and then so number seven was the Bills, pretty sure it was number seven’s right? And No. 7 was the Bills, and (owner Terry Pegula) picked him, and he took him around on an apology tour for a day, and he ends up with the one of the best quarterbacks, which was pretty good," Trump said.

The Cleveland Browns had the number one overall pick, and instead selected