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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump 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 candidates rally at Gilley's, the city's famous honky-tonk.
Honored to pray for my friend, @realDonaldTrump, at tonights 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
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...
*Cooley shakes head - head snaps off shoulders and falls to the floor*
This fuckwad has no shame. None. Zip.
cali
(114,904 posts)3. There really aren't words to adequately express my disgust
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)2. You are only good as the company you keep.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)4. Trump is showing, once again, that he was and still is clueless.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)5. Two smiling charlatans with the thumbs up.
Banging head on keyboard.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)6. If America had listened to LGBT actitivists about Trump, he'd never have even had a TV show much
less become the Republican presumptive. But America, it ignores then erases the history of LGBT activism and then laughs about having done so.