Jill Biden calls Trump ‘dangerous’ and ‘a bully’ in speech to LGBT group
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/2964320/jill-biden-calls-trump-dangerous-and-a-bully-in-speech-to-lgbt-group/First lady Jill Biden took aim at former President Donald Trump on Friday while speaking to an LGBT advocacy group.
“Donald Trump is a bully,” she said at the Human Rights Campaign’s Equality in Action event. “He is dangerous to the LGBTQ community, to our families, to our country, and we cannot let him win. We have to fight like hell until Joe and Kamala have another term.”
The first lady’s speech at the Sheraton Pentagon City in Arlington, Virginia, comes just after the launch of the Biden campaign’s “Out for Biden-Harris” initiative to engage LGBT voters.
“We’ve made progress, but there’s still so much more to do,” Jill Biden told the crowd of more than 500. “And we can’t and we won’t go back and refight the fights of the past.”
Those battles, she added, include rights being taken away, freedoms eroding, and state laws that target the LGBT community.
“Just last month, we had to fend off more than 50 anti-gay amendments that Republicans tried to force into the government funding bill,” she said, explaining that the amendments would have limited healthcare and other protections for same-sex couples.
Jill Biden specifically mentioned Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, calling it the “Don’t Say Gay law.” Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has defended the bill, saying Democrats have a false narrative of its contents.
Trump, the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party, is also seeking to win over LGBT voters. His wife, former first lady Melania Trump, will host a fundraising event for the Log Cabin Republicans, a GOP LGBT group, at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on April 20.
But Jill Biden warned that more archaic laws could be passed if people do not fight back.
