Romney Backer Makes Obama Assassination Joke

A top Republican donor who recently announced he would be financially supporting Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign made a joke about President Obama being shot at.

Speaking on Fox Business, millionaire Foster Friess — who the Romney campaign has reached out to for financial support — said, “There are a lot of things that haven’t been hammered at because Rick and Mitt have been going at each other, Now that they have trained their barrels on President Obama, I hope his teleprompters are bullet-proof.”

In an ABC News interview, Freiss claimed that he regretted the comment.

This isn’t Friess’ first troubling gaffe in the 2012 campaign. In February he made a sexist joke about birth control during an MSNBC interview.

Speaking at a conservative conference earlier this year, Friess claimed he was discriminated against because of his wealth.