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Contents:

• DONALD TMP TOLD MIKE PENCE GAY PEOPLE 'LOVE ME'—BOOK
• PENCE SWEARS TMP’S MOST PROMENT OPENLY GAY OFFICIAL
• TMP JOKED PENCE ‘WANTS TO HANG’ ALL GAY PEOPLE, NEW YORKER REPORTS
• TMP REPORTEDLY JOK ABOUT MIKE PENCE WANTG TO 'HANG' GAYS
• DESANTIS MPAIGN TOUTS HIS 'DRANIAN' LGBTQ RERD VS. TMP; GAY NSERVATIV NOUNCE HIM
• DONALD TMP MOCKS MIKE PENCE FOR WANTG TO 'HANG ALL GAY PEOPLE'
• DID MIKE PENCE SAY HE WANTS TO 'HANG' GAY PEOPLE?
• TMP VICTORY ALARMS GAY AND TRANSGENR GROUPS
• TMP'S VP PICK RANKL REPUBLIN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
• MIKE PENCE ARGUED HOMOSEXUALY WAS ‘A CHOICE’ OR ‘LEARNED BEHAVR’ DURG 1990S FIGHT AGAST GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE

DONALD TMP TOLD MIKE PENCE GAY PEOPLE 'LOVE ME'—BOOK

Former Print Donald Tmp told Mike Pence that gay people love him, acrdg to a new book by The New York Tim' Maggie Haberman's book, Confince Man: The Makg of Donald Tmp and the Breakg of Ameri, she tailed Tmp's behavr and actns throughout his one particular extract, on page 299, she tailed the nversatn Tmp had wh nservative donor and philanthropist Pl allegedly ma this statement when Pence attempted to leave the room after Sger revealed that he was favor of gay rights and had supported them as his son was the meetg, which took place as Tmp, Pence and his ais prepared the print for a prs nference, Tmp ma idle chat wh Sger, acrdg to the asked by Tmp "how nservative are you?

" Sger allegedly replied that he was que nservative on enomic issu but more morate on other issu, such as gay also said he had been volved efforts to legalize same-sex marriage.

"[Tmp] add, 'the gays, they love me, ' notg that the le his nventn speech that received the most applse was a vow to 'protect our LGBTQ cizens om the vlence and opprsn of a hateful foreign iology"Tmp also allegedly asked Sger to jo him for the prs nference but Sger cled, sayg that he was a low-profile person and was headg back to New York of the book's release, Tmp took to his social media platform, Tth Social, to dub Haberman a "maggot""Maggot Hagerman [sic] of the Unfund Liabily plagued New York Tim is my self appoted Bgrapher, even though she got the Rsia, Rsia, Rsia Hoax & the Mueller Report ncln pletely wrong, & refed to wre about the FACT that the Democrats spied on my mpaign, Lied to Congrs, & Cheated and Lied to the FISA Court, " the former print was referrg to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's vtigatn to alleged lks between Tmp's 2016 printial mpaign and Rsia as well as the fact that two warrants obtaed to surveil former Tmp mpaign ai Carter Page were later emed to be valid bee the ernment ma "material misstatements" their effort to obta them. ]The month of June was filled wh big moments for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr that monthlong stretch, the Supreme Court renred a sweepg cisn providg workplace protectns for gay and transgenr people.

PENCE SWEARS TMP’S MOST PROMENT OPENLY GAY OFFICIAL

Tmp, who durg his 2016 printial mpaign ed gay people as a wedge agast Mlims, whom he pated broadly as extremists, followg the shootgs at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub by a Mlim man.

TMP JOKED PENCE ‘WANTS TO HANG’ ALL GAY PEOPLE, NEW YORKER REPORTS

Tmp has signaled a willgns to publicly align himself wh some gay men and women, he selected a eply nservative nng mate Vice Print Mike Pence, and, as print, has systematilly dismantled protectns implemented by Print Barack Obama, pecially for transgenr over two months before Electn Day, Mr.

TMP REPORTEDLY JOK ABOUT MIKE PENCE WANTG TO 'HANG' GAYS

Grenell referred to his own appotment, as well as to the print’s acceptance of the Supreme Court’s lg of gay marriage as nstutnal and his efforts to ph untri that crimalize beg gay to end those practic.

People has ually been nnectn wh celebry or support they have given Tmp allowed gay members to his Florida club Mar-a-Lago as long as they uld pay the exorbant membership fee; he broadst donatns to groups like the Gay Men’s Health Crisis when the AIDS epimic beme a celebry e; and he publicly embraced the civil unn between the sger Elton John, someone whose mic and fame Mr. Tmp’s embrace of iativ promotg relig eedom has been ed by people si and outsi his ernment to jtify discrimatn agast gay and transgenr Kelly/RtersOver many years, Mr.

Tmp was qutned about whether he would nsir rcdg his ban on transgenr people enterg the ary by a reporter for The Washgton Bla, a gay Tmp gtured to his ch, appearg to signal the reporter’s mask was mufflg him. Diplomat reprentg Amerin terts Germany renewed his mment to the admistratn and his nfince Tmp and the vice print, spe Pence's perceived lack of support of LGBT rights and the wispread notn that he once supported so-lled gay nversn therapy, now wily a 2000 statement on his ngrsnal mpaign webse, Pence said, "Rourc should be directed toward those stutns which provi assistance to those seekg to change their sexual behavr. Joked about Pence’s sire to hang LGBTQ people: In 2017, Tmp joked about Vice Print Pence’s anti-gay agenda sayg “Don’t ask that guy—he wants to hang them all!

DESANTIS MPAIGN TOUTS HIS 'DRANIAN' LGBTQ RERD VS. TMP; GAY NSERVATIV NOUNCE HIM

Tmp’s nng mate July, he has faced plats om groups cril of his rerd on gay and transgenr rights, who said he has long been an opponent of the gas ma by the L. It has been discreded by the medil tablishment and nounced by gay and transgenr Pence’s spokman, Marc Lotter, nied to The Tim over the weekend that the vice print-elect supports the practice, sayg a past mpaign statement had been misterpreted. Groups rema skeptil, potg to his rerd of opposn to gay rights as a member of Congrs and as ernor of Indiana and an approvg reference to nversn therapy the 2016 Republin Party, what is nversn therapy, and why is Mr.

”Conversn therapy has been nmned by a range of groups, cludg the Amerin Medil Associatn and the Amerin Psychologil Associatn, which said was based on the view that homosexualy is a disorr, an ia “that has been rejected by all the major mental health profsns. ”Brothers on a Road Ls Traveled, a support group for men who want to stop beg attracted to other men, said s method clus velopg “an ternal sense of masculy” and “disverg our te needs unrlyg some of our homosexual longgs and triggers. ”There are equently relig overton to nversn therapy, which is often promoted by groups wh ti to nservative Christian anizatns like Foc on the Fay, which says on s webse that “homosexual stgglers” n “leave homosexualy” wh the help of support groups like Homosexuals Anonymo or by “beg more like J.

”Rece Prieb, the chairman of the Republin Party and the g Whe Hoe chief of staff, told reporters that the language did not refer to nversn therapy, but gay and transgenr groups did not believe him. “One is ex-gay nversn therapy and the other is transgenr hormone therapy, and I hardly believe that Tony Perks was puttg a plank the Republin Party platform endorsg the rights of parents to provi their children wh transgenr hormone therapy. Print Donald Tmp once joked private that Mike Pence "wants to hang" gay people, acrdg to a profile of the vice print The New Yorker on story, cg two anonymo sourc, said Tmp enjoys needlg the nservative former Indiana ernor about his views on abortn and homosexualy and, when a nversatn wh an unnamed legal scholar turned to gay rights, the print motned to Pence and allegedly joked, "Don't ask that guy — he wants to hang them all!

DONALD TMP MOCKS MIKE PENCE FOR WANTG TO 'HANG ALL GAY PEOPLE'

In the wake of enormo backlash, Pence signed a "fix" that ma clear the state's RFRA uld not be ed by bs to discrimate agast LGBTQ the past, Pence has said gay upl "signaled societal llapse, " opposed the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell, " opposed a law prohibg discrimatn agast LGBTQ people the workplace and rejected Obama admistratn guidance on transgenr stunts beg able to e bathrooms that rrponds to their genr inty.

DID MIKE PENCE SAY HE WANTS TO 'HANG' GAY PEOPLE?

"As the world go mad, Florida reprents a refuge of sany and a cal of normalcy, " he said earlier this new DeSantis vio quickly drew bipartisan cricism om the LGBTQ Tmp adviser and ambassador Richard Grenell, who is gay, wrote on Twter that the vio was "unniably homophobic.

TMP VICTORY ALARMS GAY AND TRANSGENR GROUPS

""Conservativ unrstand that we need to protect our kids, prerve women's sports, safeguard women's spac and strengthen parental rights, but Ron DeSantis' extreme rhetoric go has jt ventured to homophobic terrory, " the group wrote on Twter.

TMP'S VP PICK RANKL REPUBLIN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS

"A spokperson for DeSantis' mpaign, Christa Phaw, rpond to Grennell's cricism on Twter, wrg on Friday: "Opposg the feral regnn of 'Pri Month' isn't 'homophobic.

MIKE PENCE ARGUED HOMOSEXUALY WAS ‘A CHOICE’ OR ‘LEARNED BEHAVR’ DURG 1990S FIGHT AGAST GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE

Donald Tmp lov remdg his unrlgs who is charge, and gets a kick out of jokg about Mike Pence's bigoted, anti-gay iologi to his are jt two exampl om an si look at the pair's relatnship, as well as the vice print's rise to the Whe Hoe, published a bombshell New Yorker article Monday morng. He also lled for an amendment to the nstutn 2005 that would have permanently ma marriage between a male and a woman exclively, claimg gay marriage would lead to "societal llapse. As an illtratn of differenc their views on social issu, the piece reunted a meetg between Tmp, Pence, and a legal scholar which Tmp allegedly “joked” that Pence wants to “hang” homosexuals:.

Regardls of the specific cint discsed the New Yorker piece, Vice Print Pence has, his actns and statements, shown himself to be hostile to gay rights durg his reer as a polician, as noted a 2016 New York Tim overview:.