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‘Women for Trump’ Visited Pulse, But Republicans Still Don’t Get It

Sean Mandell October 31, 2016 Leave a Comment

Donald Trump apparently has a Women for Trump' bus tour and it made a stop at Orlando's Pulse nightclub last week, the site of the deadliest anti-LGBT attack in U.S. history.

Conservative outlet The Washington Times reported on the visit as did alt-right (read: white supremacist) site Breitbart.

Honored to pay tribute to the victims of the #PulseNightclub & sign the names of friends who care too. 🌈 #LoveWins pic.twitter.com/9IFtYxKDoy

— 🇺🇸 Lynne Patton (@LynnePatton) October 27, 2016

Via The Washington Times: 

Paying respects at the memorial were Donald Trump surrogates, including daughter-in-law Laura Trump, “The Apprentice” star Omarosa Manigault, Trump Organization executive Lynne Patton and YouTube sensations Lynette “Diamond” Hardaway and Rochelle “Silk” Richardson.

They laid a wreath and bouquets of flowers at the makeshift memorial. They also wrote messages on the canvas-covered fence surrounding the building that is covered with handwritten remembrances for the victims and pleas for peace.

After the women left, a message written on a large hart-shaped drawing on the canvas read: “You will forever be in our hearts, love from NYC.”

Good morning, #Orlando! ☀️ @TrumpWomensTour @LaraLeaTrump @OMAROSA @DiamondandSilk @KatrinaPierson @KatrinaCampins pic.twitter.com/lqvkqfj0Gk

— 🇺🇸 Lynne Patton (@LynnePatton) October 27, 2016

carlos_fountain_join_us_-_webGay rights activist and Democratic House candidate Carlos Guillermo-Smith was visiting Pulse with survivor Angel Santiago when the Trump bus arrived. Calling the visit “unbelievable”, Guillermo-Smith blasted the Trump campaign's repeated stoking of intolerance: 

 “I just hope there is a lot of reflection in the Trump campaign about their response to this tragedy. The Trump campaign in its entirety is a campaign based on hate, racism and bigotry…His call to action immediately after the shooting that LGBT Floridians needed to turn against our Muslim brothers and sisters, and join him — it's hate mongering and fear mongering, and he should be ashamed of himself.”

The visit from ‘Women for Trump' came just days before Hillary Clinton herself campaigned at a gay club in Wilton Manors, Florida, telling the crowd, “Make no mistake: LGBT rights are at stake” in this election. Clinton also sharply denounced anti-gay conversion therapy.

RELATED: Mike Pence Wanted to Use HIV/AIDS Money to Fund Conversion Therapy

Clinton visited Pulse in July, a little over a month after the horrific attack.

https://twitter.com/amychozick/status/756567089503166465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Trump, the self-proclaimed ‘true friend' to the LGBT community, still has not visited Pulse. Though he did respond in disgusting fashion to news of the attack only hours after it happened.

Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don't want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance. We must be smart!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 12, 2016

RELATED: Donald Trump Claims He is Friend to LGBT Community in Speech Politicizing Orlando Massacre: WATCH

Trump also attended an anti-LGBT hate conference just miles from the Pulse massacre that began on the two month anniversary of the attack and set up a campaign office across the street from Pulse. 

Trump's campaign shows no sign of backing down from its attempt to paint itself as pro-LGBT despite Trump's horrible record on LGBT rights, including his coziness with the anti-LGBT right, his choosing anti-LGBT political operatives to run his campaign, his presiding over the most anti-LGBT platform in the Grand Old Party's history, his support for the vilest ‘religious freedom' bill of our time, and his desire to appoint anti-LGBT justices to the Supreme Court. 

RELATED: Trump Again Tries to Pretend He's a Friend to LGBT Voters, Enters Rally with Rainbow Flag: WATCH

So a note to ‘Women for Trump', Trump himself, and Republicans courting the LGBT vote: being a friend to the LGBT community is more than a photo-op. If you want to be counted as a friend to the LGBT community, you have to do more than lay some flowers and sign a nice message, or in Donald's case, send your surrogates to do so. For starters, maybe try to avoid inciting hatred, currying favor with anti-LGBT bigots, and backing draconian anti-LGBT policies.

Topics: History, LGBT Rights More Posts About: Donald Trump, florida, Orlando, Pulse, Pulse Massacre, Pulse Shooting, Women for Trump

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