Trump will address hate group leaders & far right activists for second time
Source: LGBTQ Nation
By John Gallagher · Thursday, February 15, 2018
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) serves as the ideological kommissar of the Republican party. Driven by the most extreme elements on the right, CPAC determines who is a real conservative and who is not.
Needless to say, gay groups have been banned from attending the annual meeting. And needless to say, President Trump will be there to cheer the group on when it holds its meeting later this month.
Trump was received with wild cheers last year as he attacked the media and immigrants. In the same speech, Trump acknowledged that CPAC was where he gave “my first major political speech.” What he didn’t acknowledge was that his presence in 2012 was solely because of a gay group.
GOProud, a now-defunct group for gay conservatives, had been the target of CPAC organizers who just didn’t want gay people at the event. The group was formally banned in 2012, but the battle had already started a few years earlier.
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