Sean Spicer says Trump LGBT Mention Was a Ploy to Win Over Moderate Republicans - Polidicks

Spicer describes the lengths the campaign went to in an effort to nullify the “Never Trumpers” that opposed his nomination. The group of moderate Republicans had signed and circulated a petition saying they would never accept Trump as the party’s delegate. “[Trump campaign chairman Paul] Manafort and his lieutenants went one by one down the list of people who had signed the petition and persuaded them to remove their signatures,” Spicer writes. The last holdout on the list was Robert Sinners, a delegate from DC originally bound to support John Kasich. Senior Trump communications advisor Jason Miller took the lead on finding out what Sinners wanted in exchange for supporting Trump. Sinners said he wanted Trump to support gay rights. When Miller offered up a mention on LGBT rights during Trump’s acceptance speech, it sealed the deal. “Jason assured Sinners that Trump would be the most ‘inclusive’ candidate the Republican Party ever had,” Spicer writes. “Jason told Sinners Donald Trump’s acceptance speech would acknowledge the LGBT[Q] community, which no other Republican acceptance speech had done,” Spicer writes. “And it did.” “As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology,” Trump said in his speech referencing the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando by a radical Muslim. Since winning the election, Trump has become the worst president on LGBT rights as he panders to the evangelical right. Under his leadership, the government has yanked nondiscrimination protections for employees, argued in court that businesses and schools can discriminate against LGBT people, erased mentions of LGBTQ people from government websites and materials, and attempted to ban transgender people from serving in the military. LGBTQNATION ___________________________________________________________________________ List of people shocked by this revelation:

Trump tells it like it is, except for when he lies to trick people into doing what he wants, which is all the time.

Guess that explains the "I think that fart may have been something more" look on his face when he held the pride flag

The flag is upside down Flying the American flag upside down is an officially recognized signal of distress. § 8(a)The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property. tbh anyone that thinks that he really cared for LGBT was an idiot anyways. It's all a clear ploy

Wonder what will happen if Barron turns out to be LGBT.

Friendship with Barron ended Now Eric is my new favourite son

The most optimistic take possible would be that he'll be able to live the rest of his childhood and his life as he pleases, and his father won't be able to intervene because he'll be in prison serving a lifetime sentence for treason. I'm not counting on that, though, so who knows.

Gays 4 Trump totally vanished after the election. It was obviously fake. Make no mistake, if you're gay then Trump is okay with Pence wanting you dead. If you're trans, Trump wants you dead.

He should really be all for trans rights, considering trans women are the larger percentage of genderqueer people he'd have more pussy to grab if he had the patience.

thanks sean, really breaking the news 2 years later

Barron was just a coffee boy for the family.

Who knew a walking sham and conman would lie about supporting LGBTQ community?!

Turn the flag upside down, write LGBTs for TRUMP in chicken scratch on said upside down flag. It's not that hard to conceive.

I wonder if Trump has found Pvt Martin a job yet.

Gasp. What. a. shocking. development!

It's like every other [insert minority group] for Trump. Pretty facades, unlikely to be made by individuals of said minority group.

I think the implication was it was a sign of distress from the people writing it, not from Trump

Exactly; holding the flag was about as empty a gesture as eating a taco bowl and tweeting “I love Hispanics!”

Uh, no duh?

nooooooooOOOOOOOO FUCKING SHIT

Holy crap Wickedplayer, is that you?

okay admittedly I was skimming but stopped and backtracked hard upon seeing repeated references to a guy named Sinners "Jason told Sinners" has a totally different meaning without knowing thats a person's name.

Capitalized letters are useful in many ways.

my god, you've done it! you've cracked the code! i'm a trump supporter now! you did it! congrats.

Trump: 1 Atheists: 0

look closer

Everyone's gonna say how obvious this was, and sure it was, but that picture of him holding a flag was legitimately used as a point a LOT by people claiming he wasn't a bigot

I think your head is screwed in upside down

Only a naive fool would have believed for a second that Trump was legitimately supporting LGBTs as anything but a campaign ploy. Spicy boi just confirmed what we already knew, and on top of that don't forget that people would rather double down on their mistakes than admit to them, because who wants to admit they were wrong these days?

same as dick cheney, nothing when conservatives have power. he was sort of out there for his daughter (the gay one not the arch conservative one that wants her dead) but not a peep from him now that religious nuts like Trump and Sessions are at the healm and his friends from haliburton are getting their oil