Lmao so he's not gonna be clamping hard on the dudes hiring the illegals? I wonder why
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Donald Trump Says Transgender People Should Use the Bathroom They Want
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By Ashley Parker
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Ashley Parker
Donald J. Trump, right, appeared with family members on NBC’s “Today” show in Manhattan on Thursday. Richard Drew/Associated Press
Updated, 8:37 p.m. | Donald J. Trump said Thursday that transgender people should be allowed to use whatever bathroom they feel most comfortable with — including at Trump Tower in New York.
Dipping into a contentious issue by taking a stand many Republicans oppose, Mr. Trump told a town-hall-style event, hosted by NBC’s “Today” show at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, that when people go to the restroom, they should “use the bathroom they feel is appropriate.”
Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, was responding to a question about a bill that North Carolina’s governor signed into law last month that bars individuals in the state from using public bathrooms that do not correspond to their biological sex — the one listed on their birth certificate. Since then, there has been a backlash that has included denunciations from businesses and celebrities opposed to the state’s action. And transgender issues more generally have pitted social conservatives against business interests that traditionally have been part of the Republican coalition in the South and elsewhere.
“North Carolina did something — it was very strong — and they’re paying a big price,” Mr. Trump said. “And there’s a lot of problems. And I heard — one of the best answers I heard was from a commentator yesterday saying, leave it the way it is, right now.”
He added that before the law passed, there had been “very few problems” but now North Carolina is experiencing an exodus of businesses and “strife” from people on both sides of the issue.
“You leave it the way it is,” he said. “There have been very few complaints the way it is.”
North Carolina’s law, which also removed anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and the backlash to it are now at the heart of the state’s hotly contested governor’s race.
Asked if the Trump organization employs any transgender people, Mr. Trump said he truly did not know, but added, “I probably do.” And in response to a follow-up question, he said that if Caitlyn Jenner were to walk into Trump Tower and want to use a bathroom, he would be comfortable with her choosing any bathroom she wanted. “That is correct,” Mr. Trump said.
“There’s a big move to create new bathrooms” for transgender people alone, Mr. Trump said. “First of all, I think that would be discriminatory in a certain way. It would be unbelievably expensive for businesses and for the country. Leave it the way it is.”
Mr. Trump’s main rival for the Republican nomination, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, immediately seized on the “Today” show comments on several platforms, pushing out a statement from his campaign, assailing Mr. Trump’s remarks both on Glenn Beck’s radio program and at a rally in Maryland, and sending out this critical message on Twitter: “Common sense: grown men shouldn’t be in bathrooms w/ little girls.”
Speaking to Mr. Beck, Mr. Cruz said the country has “gone off the deep end” and the idea of so-called genderless bathrooms is “absurd.”
“My 5-year-old knows the difference between boys and girls,” Mr. Cruz said, referring to his younger daughter. “That’s not a reasonable position. It is simply crazy. The idea that grown men would be allowed alone in a bathroom with little girls — you don’t need to be a behavioral psychologist to realize bad things can happen and any prudent person wouldn’t allow that.”
Speaking at a campaign event in Maryland, Mr. Cruz said that Mr. Trump had aligned himself with President Obama and Hillary Clinton. “Have we gone stark-raving nuts?” he asked, bemoaning what he said was a culture of political correctness.
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas criticized Donald J. Trump's stance against a North Carolina law barring transgender people from bathrooms and locker rooms that do not match the gender on their birth certificates.
By REUTERS on April 21, 2016. Photo by Patrick Semansky/Associated Press.
The question of transgender rights is one of the key social issue debate roiling the Republican Party and the nation more broadly. On Wednesday, ESPN fired Curt Schilling, one of its most high-profile analysts and a former All-Star pitcher, for a Facebook post about the North Carolina law.
The post featured a crude photograph of an overweight man in women’s clothing and a wig, along with the message, “LET HIM IN! to the restroom with your daughter or else you’re a narrow-minded, judgmental, unloving racist bigot who needs to die.”
In a statement, ESPN called itself an “inclusive company” and said Mr. Schilling was told that “his conduct was unacceptable and his employment with ESPN has been terminated.”
Many social conservatives were quick to condemn Mr. Trump’s comments, saying he could face a backlash, especially among voters in the Republican base, some of whom are already skeptical of his past support of abortion rights.
“There’s a lot of Republicans that are very uncomfortable with this issue, to say the least, or think it’s ridiculous that we’re going down this path and some people believe putting our children at risk,” said Greg Mueller, a conservative strategist. “For somebody who is trying to build a coalition of conservatives and evangelicals, and then maybe some Democratic votes to get you into the White House, you are taking somewhat of a political risk in the position he took this morning.”
Penny Young Nance, the president of Concerned Women for America, said Mr. Trump’s remarks on Thursday illustrated “why conservatives are right to question his judgment.”
“His instincts are wrong on our core values,” she said. “He has spent his life surrounded by Manhattan elites who have never shopped in a Target. Of course he doesn’t get the outrage. I don’t know if this will ultimately hurt him but it should.”
Republican primary voters next head to the polls on Tuesday in a series of more socially moderate, Northeastern states, where Mr. Trump is unlikely to pay a political penalty. But his comments could hurt him in states like Indiana, which votes on May 3, or California, which votes on June 7 and contains many conservative pockets.
Bruce Haynes, a Republican strategist and founding partner of Purple Strategies, said that, like many of Mr. Trump’s comments that seem defy Republican orthodoxy, this one is unlikely to dramatically affect the contours of the presidential race.
“I’m not really sure it’s one of those things that changes votes at this point,” Mr. Haynes said. “I think voters who are big picture, big economy voters, are probably already with Trump, and I think voters who are very issue centric, and certainly social conservatives, are already with Cruz.”
But, Mr. Hayes added, the comments could provide Mr. Cruz with an opening to help him win over unbound delegates — currently the shadow fight playing out between Mr. Trump and Mr. Cruz. “Since convention delegates tend to be more socially conservative than the primary electorate at large, it could be another wedge issue that Cruz tries to use to peel off second and third ballot delegates or to prevent Trump from picking up unbound delegates on the first ballot,” he said.
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#juggathon
11:46 am ET 11:46 am ET
By Ashley Parker
11:46 am ET
Ashley Parker
Donald J. Trump, right, appeared with family members on NBC’s “Today” show in Manhattan on Thursday. Richard Drew/Associated Press
Updated, 8:37 p.m. | Donald J. Trump said Thursday that transgender people should be allowed to use whatever bathroom they feel most comfortable with — including at Trump Tower in New York.
Dipping into a contentious issue by taking a stand many Republicans oppose, Mr. Trump told a town-hall-style event, hosted by NBC’s “Today” show at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, that when people go to the restroom, they should “use the bathroom they feel is appropriate.”
Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, was responding to a question about a bill that North Carolina’s governor signed into law last month that bars individuals in the state from using public bathrooms that do not correspond to their biological sex — the one listed on their birth certificate. Since then, there has been a backlash that has included denunciations from businesses and celebrities opposed to the state’s action. And transgender issues more generally have pitted social conservatives against business interests that traditionally have been part of the Republican coalition in the South and elsewhere.
“North Carolina did something — it was very strong — and they’re paying a big price,” Mr. Trump said. “And there’s a lot of problems. And I heard — one of the best answers I heard was from a commentator yesterday saying, leave it the way it is, right now.”
He added that before the law passed, there had been “very few problems” but now North Carolina is experiencing an exodus of businesses and “strife” from people on both sides of the issue.
“You leave it the way it is,” he said. “There have been very few complaints the way it is.”
North Carolina’s law, which also removed anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and the backlash to it are now at the heart of the state’s hotly contested governor’s race.
Asked if the Trump organization employs any transgender people, Mr. Trump said he truly did not know, but added, “I probably do.” And in response to a follow-up question, he said that if Caitlyn Jenner were to walk into Trump Tower and want to use a bathroom, he would be comfortable with her choosing any bathroom she wanted. “That is correct,” Mr. Trump said.
“There’s a big move to create new bathrooms” for transgender people alone, Mr. Trump said. “First of all, I think that would be discriminatory in a certain way. It would be unbelievably expensive for businesses and for the country. Leave it the way it is.”
Mr. Trump’s main rival for the Republican nomination, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, immediately seized on the “Today” show comments on several platforms, pushing out a statement from his campaign, assailing Mr. Trump’s remarks both on Glenn Beck’s radio program and at a rally in Maryland, and sending out this critical message on Twitter: “Common sense: grown men shouldn’t be in bathrooms w/ little girls.”
Speaking to Mr. Beck, Mr. Cruz said the country has “gone off the deep end” and the idea of so-called genderless bathrooms is “absurd.”
“My 5-year-old knows the difference between boys and girls,” Mr. Cruz said, referring to his younger daughter. “That’s not a reasonable position. It is simply crazy. The idea that grown men would be allowed alone in a bathroom with little girls — you don’t need to be a behavioral psychologist to realize bad things can happen and any prudent person wouldn’t allow that.”
Speaking at a campaign event in Maryland, Mr. Cruz said that Mr. Trump had aligned himself with President Obama and Hillary Clinton. “Have we gone stark-raving nuts?” he asked, bemoaning what he said was a culture of political correctness.
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas criticized Donald J. Trump's stance against a North Carolina law barring transgender people from bathrooms and locker rooms that do not match the gender on their birth certificates.
By REUTERS on April 21, 2016. Photo by Patrick Semansky/Associated Press.
The question of transgender rights is one of the key social issue debate roiling the Republican Party and the nation more broadly. On Wednesday, ESPN fired Curt Schilling, one of its most high-profile analysts and a former All-Star pitcher, for a Facebook post about the North Carolina law.
The post featured a crude photograph of an overweight man in women’s clothing and a wig, along with the message, “LET HIM IN! to the restroom with your daughter or else you’re a narrow-minded, judgmental, unloving racist bigot who needs to die.”
In a statement, ESPN called itself an “inclusive company” and said Mr. Schilling was told that “his conduct was unacceptable and his employment with ESPN has been terminated.”
Many social conservatives were quick to condemn Mr. Trump’s comments, saying he could face a backlash, especially among voters in the Republican base, some of whom are already skeptical of his past support of abortion rights.
“There’s a lot of Republicans that are very uncomfortable with this issue, to say the least, or think it’s ridiculous that we’re going down this path and some people believe putting our children at risk,” said Greg Mueller, a conservative strategist. “For somebody who is trying to build a coalition of conservatives and evangelicals, and then maybe some Democratic votes to get you into the White House, you are taking somewhat of a political risk in the position he took this morning.”
Penny Young Nance, the president of Concerned Women for America, said Mr. Trump’s remarks on Thursday illustrated “why conservatives are right to question his judgment.”
“His instincts are wrong on our core values,” she said. “He has spent his life surrounded by Manhattan elites who have never shopped in a Target. Of course he doesn’t get the outrage. I don’t know if this will ultimately hurt him but it should.”
Republican primary voters next head to the polls on Tuesday in a series of more socially moderate, Northeastern states, where Mr. Trump is unlikely to pay a political penalty. But his comments could hurt him in states like Indiana, which votes on May 3, or California, which votes on June 7 and contains many conservative pockets.
Bruce Haynes, a Republican strategist and founding partner of Purple Strategies, said that, like many of Mr. Trump’s comments that seem defy Republican orthodoxy, this one is unlikely to dramatically affect the contours of the presidential race.
“I’m not really sure it’s one of those things that changes votes at this point,” Mr. Haynes said. “I think voters who are big picture, big economy voters, are probably already with Trump, and I think voters who are very issue centric, and certainly social conservatives, are already with Cruz.”
But, Mr. Hayes added, the comments could provide Mr. Cruz with an opening to help him win over unbound delegates — currently the shadow fight playing out between Mr. Trump and Mr. Cruz. “Since convention delegates tend to be more socially conservative than the primary electorate at large, it could be another wedge issue that Cruz tries to use to peel off second and third ballot delegates or to prevent Trump from picking up unbound delegates on the first ballot,” he said.
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#juggathon
BrandonBanks
Arab Money
yo...no fukkin waythis HAS to be some online bullshyt
it's true...but even i thought he'd distance himself from her after that horrible speech she gave when she endorsed him...yet after that he was still speaking positively of her 
then he mentioned she would probably have a spot in his cabinet if he were elected. Now someone in his team who released the list of possible picks also named Palin as a possibility for Secretary of the Interior 
i have a feeling he may pick Lucas for that, but i still feel like she will have some sort of spot in his cabinet somewhere. I'm not sure why Trump even associated himself with her in the first place 
like wtf
You already know
Yagirlcheatinonus
Icon Poster
Hiring freeze on federal employees?
BrandonBanks
Arab Money
Hopefully he goes with my man Trey Gowdy for AG
Most likely Rudy Guilani
You're right.. Just let everyone murder each other
No it doesn't. All this will do is increase confrontation with police. That means innocent black people will be freely targeted as well which means increased fukkery for no good reason. How about they just do thier fukking job and stop looking for a reason to fukk with people. They can't even do that right now so what makes you think giving them free reign will be any better
We gotta do better and if we didn't have stupid ass drug dealers and thugs then we wouldn't have to worry about being harassed. We love to act hard and be gangstas but don't see how the rest of the world views it. White people separate themselves from white trash.. we should too
i didnt say that breh....my point is that its more innocent black people then criminal black people. these white cops already think we are all criminals so you think its better to give them the power to harass anyone of us that they want? Look at the bigger picture. How many black people murdered by police in the last 5 years were actually criminal?
*Have a racist cabinet.
The architect of the most racist law in modern American history has been named to Trump's team
:mjcup:
The architect of the most racist law in modern American history has been named to Trump's team
:mjcup:
fukking hell brehs.
fukking imagine the amount of down-low laws they'll pass, just fukking imagine. They have power at all levels.
USSInsiders
Banned
Need that legalized sports betting for the culture
You don't want this shyt legalized. It's fine the way it is. It's not illegal for you as a US citizen to simply sign up at an offshore website and make an account that caters to American players. Dozens of websites do. It's illegal to book action. You're fine.
Saysumthinfunnymike
VOTE!!!
Hopefully he goes with my man Trey Gowdy for AG
the same Trey Gowdy who was schooled by Clinton and wasted months and months on an investigation that went nowhere. Sounds good.