Thread by @VABVOX

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I've reported extensively on Ivanka Trump and her scurrilous business practices. But Tiffany was in law school and largely--and smartly-- out of the public eye. Now she is campaigning and lying for Trump and using #LGBTQ people to do so. It's shameful.
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Tiffany held a rally Saturday with former DNI Richard Grenell, one of the only out gays in Trump's admin, to cull #LGBTQ votes for Trump--the most virulently homophobic and transphobic president in my lifetime, and that includes Reagan & Bush1 who actively let gay men die.
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For 4yrs in both the queer and mainstream press, I have reported on the dangerously anti-#LGBTQ policies of Trump, Pence, Pompeo, Sessions, Barr, DeVos, Carson, Kelly, Severino and myriad HHS appointees. You don't even know most of it, there is so much. It's harrowing.
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Pompeo is remaking State as an evangelical fiefdom and carrying that message through to our mission abroad, appointing blatantly homophobic & transphobic people to helm crucial positions here and abroad and using the vast budget of state to support anti-LGBTQ govts.
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DeVos has been on an anti-#LGBTQ campaign her entire adult life--as was her father. She has remade the Dept of Education to support anti-LGBTQ initiatives. She is especially focused on queer and trans students.
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Ben Carson was always a homophobe, but as HUD Sect he's used his power to deny #LGBTQ people housing. And HHS has pushed so many anti-LGBTQ policies it would take a dozen threads to list them all. So has DHS--including denying asylum to #LGBTQ people in fear for their lives.
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VP Pence has a long
anti-gay history, including his time in Congress, his governorship and now his vice presidency. Trump himself joked in 2018 that Pence wants to "hang all the gays." The CDC held Pence responsible for a mini-outbreak of HIV in Indiana due to his policies.
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AG Barr fought employment protections for #LGBTQ people, as did Sessions before him.Employees in the DOJ considered Barr so anti-LGBTQ, they filed a formal letter of complaint regarding low morale due to his attitudes toward LGBTQ people.
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Trump put three anti-LGBTQ jurists on the Supreme Court, none of whom considers Obergefell v Hodges settled law. Kamala Harris elicited that info from Kavanaugh. Mazie Hirono elicited it from Amy Coney Barrett. They, and Gorsuch, would overturn that ruling with opportunity.
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There is so much more--the trans military ban; the attack on #LGBTQ healthcare; the support for anti-LGBTQ "religious freedom" laws. So Tiffany claiming her father is pro-LGBTQ (like her father she couldn't even say the acronym) is another Trump lie. Don't fall for it.
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I wrote this about the Barrett hearings.

Barrett Questioned about #Healthcare, #LGBTQ Rights
epgn.com/2020/10/14/bar…

I reported on this, which just flew right under the radar, like everything Pompeo does. He is the most powerful and dangerous of Trump's Cabinet. And has massive funding for his actions.

Pompeo's Human Rights Panel Subverts #LGBTQ and Women's Rights

epgn.com/2020/06/23/pom…

I also reported on how Pompeo is using State and his $40B budget and USAID to bolster anti-LGBTQ policies abroad among US allies and not-so-allies. State supports myriad anti-LGBT+ governments now via Pompeo.

epgn.com/2020/08/26/pom…

There are dozens of stories. These are just a few recent ones that give you an indicator of what a humongous lie Tiffany Trump is telling when she claims her father supports #LGBTQ people. He is passionately invested in harming queer and trans people with his dangerous policies.