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cali

(114,904 posts)
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 10:41 AM Jun 2016

Trump retweets photo of himself with infamous anti-gay pastor, Robert Jeffress


Donald Trump has spent the week stating his support for the LGBT community in the wake of the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, remarking that he is a better ally than Hillary Clinton, whom he has repeatedly attacked for accepting donations from governments hostile to LGBT rights on behalf of the Clinton Foundation.

"Hillary Clinton can never claim to be a friend of the gay community as long as she continues to support immigration policies that bring Islamic extremists into our country and who suppress women, gays and anyone else who doesn't share their views or values," Trump said during a speech Monday, a day after 49 people were killed in a gay nightclub in Orlando.

But a photo posted to Twitter on Thursday night showed the presumptive Republican nominee with someone decidedly opposed to LGBT rights.

Robert Jeffress, a pastor from Dallas known for his anti-LGBT sentiment, shared a photo in which he posed with Trump at the candidate’s rally at Gilley's, the city's famous honky-tonk.

“Honored to pray for my friend, @realDonaldTrump, at tonight’s Dallas rally,” Jeffress tweeted, along with a photo in which they both held their thumbs up. Trump retweeted the image on Friday.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/trump-robert-jeffress-tweet-lgbt-224496#ixzz4BwTS58IG
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Trump retweets photo of himself with infamous anti-gay pastor, Robert Jeffress (Original Post) cali Jun 2016 OP
Re-tweeted yesterday, 6 days after the Pulse massacre... Cooley Hurd Jun 2016 #1
There really aren't words to adequately express my disgust cali Jun 2016 #3
You are only good as the company you keep. Glimmer of Hope Jun 2016 #2
Trump is showing, once again, that he was and still is clueless. In_The_Wind Jun 2016 #4
Two smiling charlatans with the thumbs up. sarcasmo Jun 2016 #5
If America had listened to LGBT actitivists about Trump, he'd never have even had a TV show much Bluenorthwest Jun 2016 #6
 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
1. Re-tweeted yesterday, 6 days after the Pulse massacre...
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 10:49 AM
Jun 2016

*Cooley shakes head - head snaps off shoulders and falls to the floor*

This fuckwad has no shame. None. Zip.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
6. If America had listened to LGBT actitivists about Trump, he'd never have even had a TV show much
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 11:37 AM
Jun 2016

less become the Republican presumptive. But America, it ignores then erases the history of LGBT activism and then laughs about having done so.

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