Combs and his wife were invited to a caucus-day Trump rally at The Five Sullivan Brothers Convention Center. “He wanted to award us some of the money he raised for the veterans. That was pretty awesome,” Combs said. “We met Trump in the back and got pictures taken with him and had a nice conversation with him.” The New York real estate mogul signed a large facscimile check from his foundation to Americans for Independent Living, presented the check to Combs on stage and allowed him to talk about his agency. It was one of several agencies funded out of an estimated $6 million Trump raised at the Drake event.

“I started doing some soul searching last winter” in deciding to form a nonprofit, Combs said. “ I like to help other people and I’ve done that all my life. In looking at what I could do to benefit others, hearing the stories on veterans that come back from the War on Terrorism, and how things aren’t there for them, from being disabled and coming home, and not being able to get modifications done for their house, or funding to make that happen, I thought one of the best things might be to try to put something together and help them out as much as I can. They’re going to appreciate anything that we can do for them, no matter what. We appreciate what they’ve done for us.”