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Florida Senior Pulled From His Car And Beaten: “My President Says We Can Kill You Now”

Another hate crime, this time in Florida, since the election of President-elect Donald Trump.

A Sarasota man, Chuck Redding, tells the local ABC News affiliate that he was pulled from his car and beaten for being gay.

The 75 year old senior says the alleged attacker told him the election of President-elect Trump meant he had permission to “kill all you faggots now.”

From ABC News:

“He yanked the door open, dragged me out, ripped my shirt. I was on the pavement,” said Redding.

His arm is now badly bruised, his hand cut and swollen to twice its normal size, his knee scraped, and part of his toe ripped. Redding says the driver had clearly taken note of his marriage equality and rainbow bumper stickers.

“He kept saying, ‘You know my new president says we can kill all you faggots now,'” Redding said.

Redding is openly gay, but says he’s never been attacked like this. He’s now part of the spike in attacks against minorities nationwide..

“It’s absolutely horrendous,” he said.

Redding’s now taking action to protect himself. He and several friends are applying for conceal carry permits and encouraging others to do the same.

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Donald Trump “Saddened” To Hear Minorities Being Targeted After Election

During his interview with Lesley Stahl of CBS’ 60 Minutes last night, President-elect Donald Trump was “saddened” and surprised to learn of the harassment of minorities in the wake of his election.

And – “if it helps” – he asked his followers to stop it.

#IfItHelps

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Team Trump: It’s Divisive To Point Out Our Senior Counselor Is A White Supremacist

Yesterday, the Trump transition team announced that Steve Bannon, of the “alt-right” website Breitbart will serve in the Trump administration as senior counselor and chief West Wing strategist.

The Bannon appointment raised many eyebrows in that Breibart is considered the “far right fringe” of conservative politics, and the website generally posts inflammatory white supremacist theories and worse.

Donald Trump communications director told CNN’s New Day host Chris Cuomo that pointing out Steve Bannon’s headlines and stories by white supremacists on his Breitbart website is “divisive.”

From Raw Story:

Miller attempted to parrot the new message from the Trump transition, claiming that he’s beyond attacking Mexicans, Muslims, women and all of the other groups targeted during the election. Instead, they want to move forward and bring the country together. “New Day” host Chris Cuomo couldn’t understand how that was possible with Bannon as Trump’s right-hand man.

Miller was bothered Cuomo would bring up something so divisive. “Again, I think that your focus on trying to divide people…”

Cuomo cut him off, “Not fair, Jason. Not fair. You put Bannon in position. Not me. I don’t put out the headlines on Breitbart. He does. He is seen as the architect of a very effective strategy that Donald Trump used during the election, which you guys now say needs to be left behind. But you’re bringing the architect of it with you. That’s not on me.”

And I predict that Donald Trump will “be under audit” by the IRS for at least the next four years, and thus unable to release his taxes. Ever.

Just saying…

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Team Trump “Surprised” At The Scope Of The Presidency

Apparently, folks in the Trump camp weren’t quite informed as to the “scope” of the presidency?

From The Week:

Donald Trump will be getting more help from the White House during the next several months than incoming presidents typically receive, The Wall Street Journal reports.

People with knowledge of Trump’s meeting on Thursday with President Obama told the Journal Obama realized that Trump, who has no experience in government or the military, will need more guidance, and he will spend more time with him than previously expected.

As Obama explained the duties that come along with running the country, “Trump seemed surprised by the scope,” the Journal reports, and Trump’s aides were also “unaware that the entire presidential staff working in the West Wing had to be replaced at the end of Mr. Obama’s term.”

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Trump: Marriage Equality Is ‘Settled Law,’ Roe V. Wade Is Not

President-elect Donald Trump continues to send mixed signals about his policy positions.

During the campaign, he said he would appoint judges to the Supreme Court who would overrule the Obergefell v. Hodges decision last year which brought marriage equality to the entire nation. “I would strongly consider that, yes,” he said in a January Fox News interview.

In his 60 Minutes interview last night, he told Lesley Stahl he’s “fine” with same-sex marriage.

“It’s law. It was settled in the Supreme Court. I mean it’s done.”

“These cases have gone to the Supreme Court. They’ve been settled. And I’m – I’m fine with that,” he added.

The Republican Party’s official platform, ratified by the party in July, opposes same-sex marriage, condemns the Supreme Court’s rulings in Obergefell v. Hodges and United States v. Windsor, and supports proposed “religious freedom” legislation that critics say would allow businesses to deny services to gay people.

During the very same interview, when asked if he would appoint a Supreme Court justice who would overturn Roe v. Wade, Trump said his judges will be “pro-life,” and suggested that decision could be overturned.

“If it ever were overturned, it would go back to the states,” Trump said.

Women seeking abortions would have to go “go to another state” for the procedure.

So, Obergefell is “settled law” but Roe v. Wade isn’t?

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Paul Ryan: I Hate That People Feel Afraid Of Our President-Elect

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan on CNN’s State of the Nation today, addressing the fears of millions of Americans who have felt attacked and marginalized throughout the president-elect’s campaign.

“First of all, I hate that people feel this way, and second of all, they should not. America is a pluralistic, inclusive country. I really think that people should put their minds at ease.”

Regarding the reports of hate crimes and harassment against minorities since the election Ryan denounced the acts saying, “We are the party of Lincoln. People who espouse those views, we don’t want them in our party.”

Now if only Donald Trump would be as direct and forthcoming with a statement like that…

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Donald Trump “Softens” Tone & Position In The Wake Of Election

The Guardian reports that President-elect Trump is “softening” his tone now that the presidential election – what I would describe as the vitriolic in our lifetimes – is over.

It doesn’t look like “Lock her up!” is on his mind anymore, although it thrilled his followers.

And “repeal and replace” looks more like “amend and allow” when it comes to Obamacare.

The president-elect, who had said he would “immediately repeal and replace” Obamacare after taking office, told the Wall Street Journal he might instead seek to reform the policy, keeping the ban on insurers denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.

He said he would also look to retain the provision that allowed young adults to be insured on their parents’ policies, adding that he had been convinced of the virtues of the two points in his meeting with Barack Obama on Thursday.

Trump and his family also filmed an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes to be broadcast on Sunday. The president-elect said he would amend, or repeal and replace Obamacare without any gaps in healthcare provision. “It will be just fine. It’s what I do. I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff,” he told Lesley Stahl.

Having called Clinton a “nasty woman” and “crooked” during the campaign, Trump struck a conciliatory tone towards his former opponent in both interviews. The Wall Street Journal asked about campaign promises to appoint a special prosecutor to pursue criminal charges against his Democratic rival over her use of a private email server to conduct official business as secretary of state.

“It’s not something I’ve given a lot of thought, because I want to solve healthcare, jobs, border control, tax reform,” Trump said. The statement may anger the president-elect’s core supporters, many of whom chanted “lock her up, lock her up,” at campaign rallies.

He told 60 Minutes the call in which Clinton conceded the election was “lovely”, adding: “It was a tough call for her, I can imagine … She couldn’t have been nicer. She just said ‘congratulations Donald, well done’.”

“She’s very strong and very smart,” he said, adding that Bill Clinton had also called. “He couldn’t have been more gracious. He said it was an amazing run. One of the most amazing he had ever seen,” Trump said of the former president.

Was all that infamous bluster an act? A means to an end?

Or did he never really think he would win, and now realizes he has to govern?

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Pence In, Christie Out As Trump Transition Team Head

Vice President-elect Mike Pence

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is out and Vice President-elect Mike Pence is now running Donald Trump’s transition team as Trump gets ready to assume the presidency.

Christie becomes a “vice-chair” and Pence elevates to the lead due, no doubt, to his six terms as a Congressman. Christie has become much less visible in the Trump camp since the guilty verdicts in the Bridge-Gate scandal were handed down.

Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus, who gained Trump’s trust over the long haul of the general election, is being rumored as front runner for the all-important role of Chief of Staff.

The transition team includes three of the Trump children – Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump – plus Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon, campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Jeff Sessions are also part of the transition camp.

(source)

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Trump Begins Twitter Rant Then U-Turns

It looks like someone let Donald Trump get a hold of his Twitter account for just a second again as he ranted about the protests going on across the nation over his “election.”

And shortly thereafter, Kellyanne Conway must have ripped it from his tiny hands as the following tweet reverted to “presidential Trump.”

We’re going to have to come up with names for “sane Trump” and “crazed Trump.”