Posted on 02/01/2022 2:46:42 PM PST by NoLibZone
A baffling Trump endorsement in Tennessee has caused quite a stir in MAGA country. If you haven’t been paying close attention to political minutiae lately, Politico has the story:
Former President Donald Trump is facing serious backlash from die-hard loyalists over his decision to intervene in a Tennessee House race, with his supporters accusing him of spurning a staunch Republican ally who’s running. Trump on Tuesday evening endorsed Morgan Ortagus, who served as a State Department spokesperson during his administration and is pondering a run for a Middle Tennessee-based congressional district. The announcement has caused a firestorm, with far-right, high-profile backers ranging from North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn to conservative activist Candace Owens taking to social media to voice their support for Robby Starbuck, a rival candidate who’s been a mainstay of the pro-Trump movement. [Politico] Is this all just a tempest in a teapot? Our research indicates this Trump endorsement is even worse than you might have thought at first glance. Megan Ortagus might be President Trump’s former State Department spokesperson, but she holds GOP establishment neocon views that are diametrically opposed to the America First, MAGA-movement.
Mere hours after Trump’s endorsement, The National Pulse publicized statements Ortagus had made vowing to “faithfully [serve] the incoming Biden Administration,” and trashing Trump back during the 2016 race. It turns out that, in 2016, she dutifully repeated all of the Never Trump talking points of the GOP establishment:
“You have somebody who makes fun of people with mental and physical disabilities. That’s disgusting; there’s no other way around it,” remarked Ortagus in January 2016 during an interview with Fox News. Ortagus, while working for a super PAC associated with Trump’s primary opponent former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, said she “fundamentally disagree[d]” with Trump’s approach to foreign policy. “In his gut, he does not think that Americans should be, quote unquote, the policemen of the world,” she said during a 2016 panel discussion dissecting Trump’s foreign policy speech. “I don’t see it that way. I think that America is the glue that holds the world together. … So there were points that I agreed with him today, but overall, I fundamentally disagree with his isolationist approach to foreign policy,” she added. Ortagus and her second husband were married by the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in 2000. [National Pulse] Getting married by Ruth Bader Ginsburg might simply reflect a profound lack of taste in Ortagus’ personal life that can be overlooked, but championing America as the “policemen of the world,” casting President Trump’s policies as “isolationist,” and stating that she “fundamentally disagrees” with Trump’s America First, Jacksonian approach to foreign policy are political sins that cannot be forgiven.
Of course, many people criticized Donald Trump in 2016, and later came around on the importance of the political realignment he led. The issue with Ortagus, however, isn’t limited to her criticism of Trump—it’s her clear failure to have learned anything after serving in his administration.
If Ortagus is elected to the House, she will become one of the most extreme warhawks in the Republican Party—a natural ally of figures like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. Her Twitter timeline features a cascading list of demands that America get involved in a dizzying array of foreign entanglements.
Ortagus calls for the US government to ship more weapons to Ukraine, immediately:
I’m sure Trump will pick all the loyal DC patriots again if elected. Meanwhile, DeSantis has a mean loyal machine down in FL. Time to cut the emotional ties to Trump.
Trump's bad judgement in supporting RINOs irks his supporters, but luckily, the voters set things right.
Robby Starbuck will be elected.
Agree but Trump is endorsing her for some reason.
He’s also been told to tone down his support for vaccines...and he has... Seems like Trump is becoming more of a politician these days.
As far as getting married by RBG, I don’t think that means much. >>> And RBG and Scalia were friends.
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Ortagus and her second husband were married by the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in 2000
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Only post that was really necessary on this thread.
Oh, yeah. Well last time I posted on Cawthorn I get a bunch of posts calling Cawthorn the RINO. See. Nobody knows who the RINOs are it’s whatever you think...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3978894/posts
And Trump supported the candidate that Meadows and Jim Jordan endorsed first. This wasn’t a RINO.
Because Ginsburg was a neighbor 25 years ago. That’s relevant. Not how she worked with Pompeo in Trump’s admin.
On Americas Voice, Fredericks had Bobby Starbuck on and said he supported Starbuck, snd would start a fund raiser for him.
Obvious Fredericks split with Trump on this one.
Starbuck is impressive.
Trump, you got this one wrong
Trump has a weakness for young attractive women. It’s a human (male) fallibility.
Don’t forget that Trump predicted that Jeff Flake would lose reelection.
“Everybody is smarter than Trump because what she didn’t always support Trump 7 years ago (neither did Desantis, Rand Paul, Levin) during the Republican primary, and because her neighbor was Ginsburg in 2000. Sounds legit.
It doesn’t matter that Trump worked with her and knows she’s America First and that she was an absolute warrior working with Pompeo.”
Thank you, for your well reasoned post, a post I agree with BTW.
Trump could die tomorrow and I’ll still write him in for the 2024 Republican Primary & General Election.
Sometimes, “Revenge is a dish best served cold, with the name Trump on a bowl.”
2024 is one of those times.
“Choosing RBG to perform your wedding should be automatically disqualifying for anyone seeking office as a conservative. Period.”
A decision that bad shows a stunning lack of discernment and critical thinking. That single decision is a deal breaker.
It wasn’t her. It was her husband asked because he lived next door to RBG and he had RBG’s husband as a professor at Georgetown.
https://www.today.com/popculture/ruth-bader-ginsburg-s-neighbor-reveals-risky-gift-he-gave-t192067
You’d be wrong. The outpouring in favor of Robby Starbuck was swift and very outraged from a huge conservative base. Even Sebastian Gorka who also supports Robby said Trump has been informed.
“It wasn’t her. It was her husband”
Doesn’t matter. New husband/fiance or new officiate. Not up for negotiation.
It may have been. I have no way of knowing.
It’s the down side of joining politics when you don’t know the players.
If this person was talking him down, I doubt he’d appoint
them unless he didn’t know it.
Then again, he could have had a person that suggested this
was the go to person.
Sadly, there are so many RINOs around, they can do harm
to the cause at times.
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