Trump’s donations to LGBT groups were part of reality TV show, not private philanthropy
March 9, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Donald Trump donated tens of thousands of dollars to homosexual lobbying organizations but the donations were dictated by the terms of his reality TV show “Celebrity Apprentice.”
Trump Foundation donated $30,000 to two LGBT groups, including a national organization dedicated to teaching homosexuality in the public schools beginning kindergarten and promoting “fisting” to children in middle school.
However, those donations came as part of Trump’s role in his reality television show, which allowed celebrities to earmark money for charities of their choice, and Trump would make a matching donation.
A spokesperson for Gay Men’s Health Crisis also told The Advocate that its Trump Foundation donation came because comedienne Lisa Lampanelli “raised $130,000 on the show for GMHC, with a $10,000 match from Trump, a routine part of the show during its respective seasons.”
Angelo, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, an LGBT Republican group, said the circumstances of the donations don’t change the fact that it was made.
He similarly critiqued LGBT organizations that tried to minimize Trump’s role in donating to their cause.
The Log Cabin Republicans has asked Trump to clarify his stance on same-sex “marriage,” although Trump has consistently said he opposes redefining marriage since he considered running for the Reform Party presidential nomination in 1999.
Trump Foundation did not respond to LifeSiteNews’ requests for comment before the original story was published.
Carly Fiorina endorses ‘true conservative’ Ted Cruz for president: criticizes ‘liberal’ Trump
MIAMI, Florida, March 9, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Former presidential candidate Carly Fiorina has endorsed Ted Cruz for president.
“I ran for president because I believe it is time to take our country back,” Fiorina said during a speech introducing Cruz in Miami.
Just days after giving a rousing speech at CPAC, Fiorina joins the leading evangelical, marriage, and conservative activists who have endorsed Cruz for the Republican nomination.
Several moderate Republicans have begun to grouse that they may have to coalesce around Cruz, long the bane of his fellow senators for his opposition to Beltway compromises that he believed sold out the GOP’s conservative base.
Some in our party are saying they’d prefer a liberal like Donald Trump because he is a deal maker. Donald Trump buys politicians like Hillary Clinton and then we are surprised when Washington continues only to serve the big, the powerful, the wealthy, and the well-connected. These are the same Republicans who tell us Ted is just too conservative, that they don’t like it when he won’t back down from a fight, that they wish he would quit making their jobs harder by forcing them to do what voters elected them to do.
Of course, there are also many Republicans who are now horrified at the prospect of Donald Trump as our nominee. The only way to beat Donald Trump is to beat him at the ballot box. And guess what, the only guy who can beat Donald Trump, who has beaten Donald Trump is Ted Cruz.
If we want to defeat Donald Trump, we must defeat him by offering citizens conservative solutions to the problems in their lives.
Ted Cruz has done that, Ted Cruz is doing that and Ted Cruz will continue to do that. We need a real conservative to beat Donald Trump.
