Posted on 10/21/2016 6:20:03 AM PDT by NYer
Donald Trump was booed by diners during a Catholic fundraising event last night.
The Alfred E Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, an annual white-tie gala in New York, is often the last time the two presidential nominees share a stage before Election Day and is traditionally a time when campaign hostilities are set aside. The event raises money for impoverished children throughout New York
The speakers usually poke fun at themselves and each other. But the audience seemed to think Trump had crossed a line with his caustic language about Clinton.
Trump referred to his opponent as “corrupt” during a lengthy riff on the FBI’s investigation into her use of a private email server as secretary of state.
“Hillary is so corrupt she got kicked off the Watergate Commission. How corrupt do you have to be to get kicked off the Watergate Commission? Pretty corrupt,” he said to loud boos and at least one call demanding he get off the stage.
Trump went on, to growing jeers: “Hillary believes that it’s vital to deceive the people by having one public policy and a totally different policy in private. Here she is tonight, in public, pretending not to hate Catholics.”
It comes after the controversy over the “Catholic Spring” emails, in which Wikileaks revealed that Clinton’s campaign chief, John Podesta, claimed to have helped “create” organisations in order to start a “revolution” within the Church.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan said yesterday that comments made about Catholics in these and other Wikileaks emails were “insulting and patronising.” He told ABC: “If it had been said about the Jewish community, if it had been said about the Islamic community, within 10 minutes there would have been an apology and a complete distancing from those remarks.” Cardinal Dolan said that he hoped Clinton would disassociate herself from the remarks.
At last night’s dinner, Trump and Clinton sat on either side of Cardinal Dolan. When they entered and took their seats, they did not greet each other or make eye contact, though they did shake hands at the conclusion of the roast.
Dolan later called his seat “the iciest place on the planet.”
Most eyes were on Trump, who famously glowered through President Barack Obama’s jokes at his expense during the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner.
The speeches largely exhibited the gently mocking humour which is traditional at the event. Trump’s biggest laughs came as he talked about claims Melania Trump had copied parts of a speech from Michelle Obama. “They think [Michelle Obama’s] absolutely great. My wife Melania gives the exact same speech, and people get on her case,” he said to whoops and laughs.
Clinton was the first one to laugh when Trump joked that she had bumped into him earlier in the night “and she very civilly said ‘Pardon me'” — a reference to the Republican nominee’s frequent declarations that his opponent should go to jail.
Clinton, meanwhile, joked that she had taken a break from her “usual nap schedule” to attend and suggested that the audience should be pleased she’s not charging her usual fee for speaking in front of potential donors.
But she also got in some digs at Trump, a few of which drew scattered jeers. Clinton said she understood why Trump disliked teleprompters, because they can be difficult to follow and “I’m sure it’s even harder when you’re translating from the original Russian.”
She also joked about Trump’s attitude to women. Most Americans see the Statue of Liberty as a symbol of freedom, Clinton said; but “Donald looks at the Statue of Liberty and sees a ‘4’. Maybe a ‘5’ if she loses the torch and tablet and changes her hair.”
The dinner is named after the former New York governor Al Smith, a Democrat who in 1928 became the first Catholic to receive a major party nomination for president.
“I want them quaking in abject FEAR that he will expose their criminality and see them punished for it.”
And I want them to understand — and I believe they do — that they’ll never see another penny from Trump again, or any other type of support. It sounds like they’ve come begging in the past, and he’s accommodated them. I expect that’ll never happen again.
These people are complicit in attempting the overthrow of our republic. I despise them, and wish the very worst for them.
Then he should have trampled on the moderator not on the Traditions of the Al Smith Memorial. And if this is war then if Mr. Trump loses does the war turn violent?
Wasn’t he “Ice Pick” in “Magnum PI”?
“Wasn’t he “Ice Pick” in “Magnum PI”?”
Yes he was. Man, he sure looks like the guy at the fund raiser. However Cook died in 1995.
“Then he should have trampled on the moderator not on the Traditions of the Al Smith Memorial.”
Sometimes traditions must end. Al Smith was a big frickin’ lib/progressive, connected to Tammany Hall. Why worship him just because he was Catholic? Find other ways to raise money for Catholic charities.
“And if this is war then if Mr. Trump loses does the war turn violent?”
I believe so. How could it not?
Hitlery shouldn’t have even been invited to the dinner. Screw the gentlemanly, urbane crap. We’re living in a world in crisis, and one of the reasons for that is because pussies like Dolan are too gun shy about calling out evil. So Donald Trump did the Cardinal’s job for him last night. Thank God there was one person with gonads of steel at the dinner.
Lib/progressive Tammany Hall. My you do practice your oxymorons. How do I know? Tammany runs in my blood as does a visceral antipathy to anti Catholicism, whether from the godless progressives who see me as a fool for believing, the Blue Blooded Prods who burned my churches but were unable to silence Dagger John, or the holier than God Himself evangelicals who like calling me a papist or a follower of the anti Christ. You are probably a blue blooded Prod.
These are not Catholics!!!
I have no idea what a “prod” is.
Although your post is unintelligible, I THINK you’re on a denomination-specific rant, and my post certainly wasn’t in that vein. If the elite dinner had been sponsored by Amish to fund Amish charities, I’d have had the identical comments if its namesake had been a liberal democrat.
Whatever the domination, when it comes to this election, WE ARE IN IT TOGETHER if we call ourselves “Christians”.
Tammany/Progressive OXYMORON!! You know nothing of Tammany. If Al Smith was such a liberal progressive, then why did his successor disown him and make him all but a non person. Oh and Mr. Trump... When he announced his candidacy that was the first time I ever heard anyone call him a conservative and I am just a bit younger than he and lived in NYC all my life. To most of us here in NY he is just another real estate guy, bigger than some, showier than most but most folks I know rate maybe one step higher than Fred Wilpon. That’s not a compliment. The last word is yours if you want it
I’m thinking that perhaps those who booed Trump were the media reps.
Our side has lost for too long assuming they will someday fight fair and clean.
They won't. Ever.
They are murderous sons of bitches who have infiltrated the Catholic Church, among other entities, and are spreading their sickening faith of homo sex and infant sacrifice.
I'm overjoyed Trump showed up and rattled their cage.
You need to grow a spine and realize that this is a fight to the death with these commies.
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