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riversedge

(70,200 posts)
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 08:59 AM Aug 2016

Cher slams Trump’s ‘disingenuous’ promises to gay fans: ‘My people will not believe him’




Cher slams Trump’s ‘disingenuous’ promises to gay fans: ‘My people will not believe him’

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/cher-slams-trumps-disingenuous-promises-to-gay-fans-my-people-will-not-believe-him/

Arturo Garcia



23 Aug 2016 at 23:29 ET


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“He’s the most disingenuous man I’ve ever seen,” she told MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell in a phone interview. “I want to tell you: my people will not believe him for a minute.”

At last month’s Republican National Convention, Trump said he would protect LGBTQ Americans from attacks like the Orlando massacre that left 49 people dead at a gay nightclub.

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But the Academy Award-winner, who has publicly backed Democrat Hillary Clinton rejected his argument, arguing that Trump met with a group of anti-LGBTQ religious leaders since winning the nomination.

“How does he go from that meeting to telling my people that he will protect them?” she asked.

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Watch footage from the interview, as aired on Tuesday, below..........
















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Cher slams Trump’s ‘disingenuous’ promises to gay fans: ‘My people will not believe him’ (Original Post) riversedge Aug 2016 OP
He just wanted to sell lots of guns to gays for his NRA buds. No one buying his paranoid fantasy Person 2713 Aug 2016 #1
Question: what makes them "her people"? brooklynite Aug 2016 #2
That stuck out for me also. I imagine she now riversedge Aug 2016 #3

Person 2713

(3,263 posts)
1. He just wanted to sell lots of guns to gays for his NRA buds. No one buying his paranoid fantasy
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 09:13 AM
Aug 2016

Except for some log cabin republicans, he should just forget about trying. Not happening . Not now
Not November

riversedge

(70,200 posts)
3. That stuck out for me also. I imagine she now
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 09:29 AM
Aug 2016

sees the gay lesbian transgender community as being part of her community now that she has reconciled with her transgender son. Just my opine.

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