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Related: About this forumTrump claims 'some of my biggest supporters' are gay
President Donald Trump finally acknowledged the Log Cabin Republicans controversial endorsement of his reelection campaign. Trump used it as a shield to deflect a question about his administrations nonstop attacks on the LGBT community.
The same day the group put out their endorsement, the administration submitted a brief to the Supreme Court arguing that discrimination against LGBTQ people should be legalized. While numerous courts in multiple cases have found that the community is protected under existing civil rights laws, the administration argues that LGBT people shouldnt be covered since they were not specifically included by name.
Mr President, a reporter asked during the scrum. your administration has been taking steps to make it easier to discriminate against LGBT people in the workforce. Are you okay with that?
Well, you know, I just got an award and an endorsement yesterday from a, the exact group that gave
You saw that? They gave me the endorsement yesterday and I was very honored to
Is it Log Cabin? The Log Cabin group. Trump said as he stumbled through his answer. And I was very honored to receive it.
No, Ive done really well with that community, Trump continued. Some of my biggest supporters are of that community and I think that they, and I talk to them a lot about it. Uh, I think Ive done really very well with that community. As you know, Peter Thiel and so many others, there with me all the way and they like the job Im doing. And I just got a big endorsement from the, uh, Log Cabin group.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/08/trump-claims-biggest-supporters-gay-support-plan-legalize-discrimination/
Firestorm49
(4,035 posts)irisblue
(32,974 posts)From his wiki-Peter Andreas Thiel (/tiːl/; born October 11, 1967) is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund. He was ranked No. 4 on the Forbes Midas List of 2014, with a net worth of $2.2 billion, and No. 328 on the Forbes 400 in 2018, with a net worth of $2.5 billion.[3][4]
Snip-Thiel, who himself is gay,[99][100] has supported gay rights causes such as the American Foundation for Equal Rights and GOProud.[101]
So a very rich man.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,693 posts)Turbineguy
(37,329 posts)How does that work?
blm
(113,061 posts)Meadowoak
(5,546 posts)kimbutgar
(21,148 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)kimbutgar
(21,148 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Or, why did you mention him?
kimbutgar
(21,148 posts)Crowman2009
(2,495 posts)A head of another tabloid org. being friends with Drumpf? I didn't see that coming!