Not surprisingly, Donald Trump took the predictable heat from progressives after he tweeted his thanks in June to the LGBT community for its support. However, his tweet also garnered more than 50,000 likes.
Thank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 14, 2016
Can one person’s utter disgust with Trump and the GOP negate those tens of thousands of likes? It took him more than a month to react, but California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who would like to be elected the state’s governor in 2018, unloaded on Trump and the GOP Monday afternoon in a series of tweets in which he accused Trump of, well, a lot.
If Elizabeth Warren thinks her Twitter broadsides against Trump have been brutal, she needs to take notes.
I didn't believe you would protect anyone but yourself, but remember when you made Orlando tragedy all about you? https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
Honestly, we don’t remember that at all, but we do remember when the Democrats made the Orlando terrorist attack (or “tragedy,” if you prefer) about everything but Islamic terrorism, exploiting it to reignite their gun control push and choosing to hold a 25-hour temper tantrum on the House floor to keep “potential” terrorists from purchasing firearms.
What have you done since Orlando? Have you even tried to fake something? Send some ties, steaks or water? https://t.co/7ZOZzwR60Q
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
You didn't do anything, because you never do anything. You used the death of 49 people to attack your opponent. https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
This tweet below, 2 days after over 100 people were killed and you used it to attack your opponent. https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
Parents were making funeral arrangements, they were finding out their kids were closeted, but no it's all about you. https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
You used a tragedy to lie and make promises you weren't going to keep. So how have you protected LGBT ppl since? https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
If Newsom is suggesting that lying and making promises that aren’t going to kept makes one unfit for office, the Democrats had better put up a surprise nominee at their convention in Philadelphia.
You picked as your VP a man who has dedicated his life to figuring out ways to discriminate against the community https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
You picked a man who wanted to take money from hiv/aids programs and give it to conversion therapy. Torture. Abuse. https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
What else did you do to protect LGBT community? You didn't do a thing about the GOP platform. It's filled with hate https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
The most anti-lgbt platform in the history of the GOP. That's saying a lot, I would have thought in past 12 years https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
So what's in the platform? Let's put aside, for a second, the fact that your party wants to destroy LGBT families, https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
Should we also put aside the fact that the Democrats have put together the “most progressive” platform ever when it comes to taxpayer-funded abortion without limits? Probably.
In the GOP platform (your party Donald) parents should be able to subject their kids to torture/abuse https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
I'm not being hyperbolic.it's called conversion therapy. Telling a LGBT kid they need to change/will never be happy https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
Taking a kid that can't even vote + sending them off somewhere or taking them to a creepy office to be tortured https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
Kids who go through conversion are 8 times more likely to be suicidal. 6 times more likely to be severely depressed https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
This is your protection? You're sick. Your party just spit in the face of every single kid who is sad and confused https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
Conversion therapy is so bad that the American Med Association, American Psych association say its dangerous https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
5 states and DC have banned conversion therapy. And all Supreme Court challenges to laws upheld. https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
Think about the kind of company you are keeping, your GOP pals went to court to get their right to torture back https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
Boys in conversion therapy are told 2 stay away from girls so they don't become effeminate + so they are mysterious https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
LGBT Kids are told if they don't change, they will be lonely and unhappy their entire lives. https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
You had the first openly lesbian GOP platform member begging for the committee to at least say gay people exist https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
she couldn't get that done. You know its amazing, you have no problem asserting control when it helps you https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
That’s laying a lot at the feet of Trump personally, considering that each party has its own platform committee that meets to hammer out the exact working to present at each party’s convention. Was Hillary Clinton in attendance as the Democrats drafted their party platform, or was she too campaigning?
But when it comes to asserting control to help others you are "hands off" – you've never NOT micromanaged https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
And here we go …
You tried to make islam/terrorism the threat to LGBT community instead of what is really a threat. You, Your VP, GOP https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
So, Omar Mateen (a registered Democrat, by the way) slaughtered 49 people at a gay nightclub in Florida, a soft target that he personally staked out and selected, but the real threat to the LGBT community is Donald Trump and the GOP? Could it be the NRA is catching a break in this Twitter rant?
Of course you wouldn't have asked what the community needed, its always a soliloquy with you, one way street. https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
Reminder: 2 days after over 100 people were shot in cold blood, you used their safety to attack your opponent. https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
What else, in the platform, if you aren't raised by a mom/dad, u are more likely to be drug addicted and a criminal https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
That's lovely, so you just said single moms raise drug addicted kids in prison. I was raised by a single mom. https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
Your party (yes, your party) just told the kids who are being raised by loving LGBT parents that they don't matter. https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
There's something fundamentally wrong with a person who can put in child torture into platform + still sleep @ night https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
Reminder, your VP once wanted to take away money from hiv/aids funding and give it to conversion therapy – sick https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
Once? Reminder: the Democratic nominee for president herself once opposed same-sex marriage. But in 2013, Clinton and husband Bill issued a joint statement praising the U.S. Supreme Court for overturning the Defense of Marriage Act, which President Clinton himself had signed into law in 1996.
So let’s not pretend conversion therapy is a cornerstone of the GOP platform, and recognize that it is likely to generate less discussion than transgender bathroom access. Hopefully the party will focus on that non-threat of Islamic terrorism.
You can say what you want to me, @elizabethforma @HillaryClinton – we can take it, but how dare you do this to kids https://t.co/7ZOZzx8GSo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2016
Could the Republican platform be more progressive? Certainly — but it would never satisfy the demands of Democrat critics; that’s one of the reasons there are two parties.
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