Steve King not allowed on Air Force One for Trump's trip to Iowa Tuesday

CNN ^ | 11 June 2019 | Jeff Zeleny

[haircutter]

GOP and RNC are out to destroy STEVE KING...R from Iowa...

and that is a good example of why I will never send a red cent to either organization of the Rep. Party...

I’ll vote and support DJT but that is all I’ll do for the Party that I’ve been registered under for 58 years...

[conservative98]

cuz the fake news media would take it out of context.

[SuperLuminal]

"WHY could he not fly on Air Force One?"

For the same reason Benedict Arnold was not invited to ride in George Washington's carriage to the first inaugural ball...

[proust]

good thing we bow to the media then.

[SWAMP-C1PHER]

Amen.

[morphing libertarian]

but he WAS allowed to hang around

[conservative98]

you dislike most of what Trump does so no difference.

[upsdriver]

The first mistake people will have here is believing a MSM “news” story.

[Drew68]

They maliciously misconstrued what he said to be support for white supremacy, which it wasn’t, but everyone, including Republicans, went with this.

Steve King's sin was endorsing Faith Goldy for Toronto mayor. That's when he lost all of his party support. After this, he was expected to lose his campaign for reelection and go away quietly. Instead, he won and to teach him a lesson, he was stripped of all his chairs and has been essentially ostracized from the party. He has no friends in the halls of congress.

[Drew68]

The first mistake people will have here is believing a MSM “news” story.

What here is not true?

[coloradan]

I heard what he said. His words followed a jump in thought, which an extremely simpleminded and uncharitable interpretation of sounds like he lumped together nationalism and white supremacy. But his tone of voice and cadence changed, so it’s obvious that that wasn’t what he meant. But, of course the media ran with it, dems piled on, and fellow (spineless) Republicans, probably seeing the blood in the water, didn’t want to rise to his defense lest they be similarly smeared as “supporting white supremacy” - which would have been a lie, of course. Just another day for the enemy media.

[kabar]

Agree. Steve King is a man of integrity. He is one of the best in Congress on immigration issues. Too bad Trump allowed himself to be influenced by the GOP Establishment.

[Secret Agent Man]

Everyone who says its ok to be (whatever) then, in insecure.

Why you insecure black people, women, perverts of all stripes, illegals?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It was wise of the White House to keep him off AF1.

Can you imagine the field day they would have had if Trump had invited him onto the plane? "Trump invites White Supremacist onto AF1. This confirms that Trump is a racist as we knew all along."

It's infuriating that minor missteps destroys good Republicans, but outright and repeated foot in mouth by Democrats results in...NOTHING.

[enumerated]

“...destroyed by the MSM and is now damaged goods. It was wise of the White House to keep him off AF1.. .”

Maybe so, but I like it much better when President Trump stands up against this kind of pc bullshit; damn the torpedoes.

[CurlyDave]

...Because he made some politically incorrect comments and has become a pariah within the Republican Party, even stripped of all committee assignments. Totally unjustified, but that’s what’s going on here...

I think DJT did the right thing here.

Yes, it would be nice if he stood up for an oppressed and misunderstood man. BUT, there is an election next year and he does not need the grief this is guaranteed to cause him.

Steve's very own mouth got him into a jam and he needs to get out on his own.

Getting DJT re-elected has got to be our biggest priority.

[be-baw]

“I think DJT did the right thing here.”

Yeah, he did. There wouldn’t have been an upside to having King tag along.

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[dp0622]

JoSixChip...you said of King...

... he must ether be a real conservative or a complete POS. If Trump did not let him on AF1, the later must be true...

Bro, take some advice.

You say MORE stupid things than me.

And that’s not easy.

I don’t know if you can, but TRY and THINK before you comment.

I find it hard too. But we just make ASSES out of ourselves when we don’t think before typing.

[af_vet_1981]

WHY could he not fly on Air Force One?

He didn't have a ticket.