Buttigieg blasts Trump: My marriage never involved ‘hush money’

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Frederick Foresight, Feb 19, 2020.

  1. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/18/buttigieg-marriage-trump-porn-star-115922

    Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg invoked President Donald Trump’s porn star scandal Tuesday, reviving a line of attack that helped catapult his longshot campaign into a viable contender last year.

    Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom at President Donald Trump’s State of the Union, said the president told him to “never apologize” for his comments about Buttigieg’s sexuality.

    Limbaugh said last week that America isn’t ready to elect a gay man who kisses his husband onstage. Trump, however, suggested last week that he would vote for a gay presidential candidate.

    Asked if he takes the president at his word, Buttigieg told CNN’s Erin Burnett at a Las Vegas town hall: “Not if he’s sending out his supporters to talk in this way.”

    “The idea of the likes of Rush Limbaugh or Donald Trump lecturing anybody on family values — I mean, sorry but, one thing about my marriage is it’s never involved me having to send hush money to a porn star after cheating on my spouse with him or her,” the former South Bend, Ind., mayor said. “So they wanna debate family values? Let’s debate family values. I’m ready.”

    Buttigieg’s line was reminiscent of a phrase he used at his breakout CNN town hall last March, when he called Vice President Mike Pence the “cheerleader of the porn star presidency.”

    Buttigieg had also addressed Limbaugh’s remarks on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. He told Dana Bash then that he loves his husband, Chasten, is faithful to him, and isn’t “gonna take lectures on family values from the likes of Rush Limbaugh.”

    Trump was involved in a $130,000 payout to adult film star Stormy Daniels to prevent their alleged affair from coming out in the 2016 election in the aftermath of the “Access Hollywood” tape.

    On Tuesday, Buttigieg also used Trump as example of why age shouldn’t always be equated with wisdom to beat back criticism of his youth and inexperience.

    “We got the oldest president in American history,” the 38-year-old said. “How is that working out for us right now?”
     
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  2. Amun Ra

    Amun Ra

    Pretty good actually. Record stock market highs. Record unemployment lows. Life is good.
     
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  3. LacesOut

    LacesOut

    ButtnJizz is dead
     
  4. He's just along for the ride that was created for him before he took office. He doesn't know shit about anything, and is just making things worse for when the party's over and he's left the premises.

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  5. LacesOut

    LacesOut

    ahh, same argument could be made for Obama - Bush fixed the economy and Obama was just lucky to be there at the bottom..

    eventually, you have to give credit to the POTUS who stripped all things Obama from the system and pushed the economy into overdrive...
    thanks Trumpy!!!!
     
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  6. UsualName

    UsualName

    Baghdad Bob says the economy is in overdrive while GDP is barely +2.5 and hiring has slowed.
     
  7. LacesOut

    LacesOut

    The economy is good - thanks Obama.
    The economy is weak - Thanks Trump.
    Libtard logic.
     
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  8. UsualName

    UsualName

    I did not say the economy was not good, did I? We’ve been in the same economic conditions for about seven years, give or take. It’s been good but certainly not in overdrive.
     
  9. The way that veterinarians fix pets? Bush inherited a structural budget surplus and then proceeded to create historic budget deficits. "Fixed" indeed.
     
  10. LacesOut

    LacesOut

    Stock market breaking records..
    unemployment breaking records..
    US Dollar roaring...
    Trumpy taking it to the Chinese...the Mexicans...
    I'd say things are pretty damn good!

    What we need now is a giant dose of Communism!
     
    #10     Feb 19, 2020