New Book Claims Donald Trump Said: “The Gays, They Love Me”

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The New York Times.In the book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, Haberman details Trump’s behavior and actions throughout his presidency.

In one excerpt from the book, obtained by Newsweek, Haberman describes an exchange Trump had with conservative donor and philanthropist Paul Singer, who has a gay son.According to the excerpt, while Trump, Pence, and their aides prepared for a press conference, Trump chatted up Singer, asking him: “How conservative are you?”Singer replied that he was quite conservative on economic issues but more moderate on other issues, such as gay rights, noting that he had been involved in efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in individual states.

According to The Washington Post, in 2012, Singer started American Unity PAC, a political action committee designed to support LGBTQ-friendly Republicans in state legislative elections.Trump followed up by asking Singer if he was gay, to which he replied he wasn’t, but his son was.Pence began to leave the room, at which point, Trump allegedly gestured toward the vice president and said, ‘you’re not like those guys, that kind of conservative?”He then added, “the gays, they love me,” noting that the line in his GOP convention speech that received the most applause was a vow to “protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology” — a reference to the Pulse nightclub shooting and the threat radical Islam poses to LGBTQ rights.Trump also asked Singer to join him for the press conference, but Singer declined, saying he was a low-profile person and was heading back to New York City.Haberman’s anecdote about Trump seems to mirror a story from a 2017 artice in The New Yorker, which.