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Trump reacts to Biden's fall: 'You have to be careful â even if you have to tiptoe down a ramp'
June 01, 2023
In the middle of a speech to an audience at a campaign event in Iowa this Thursday, Donald Trump was informed that President Joe Biden had taken a pretty hard fall while on stage at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation ceremony in Colorado.
"Well, I hope he wasn't hurt," Trump said, adding, "The whole thing is crazy -- you gotta be careful about that ... because you don't want that, even if you have to tiptoe down a ramp."
Trump was referring to an incident during his presidency when news cameras captured him in June of 2020 appearing to have trouble walking down a stage ramp after giving a commencement speech at West Point. Numerous news outlets at the time used the video to speculate about the then-president's health.
Biden's fall Thursday, which the White House blamed on a misplaced sandbag, invited similar speculation from his critics, some saying it shows the double standard in how the media covered the two incidents.
After his fall Biden, who is now 80, stood back up with some help and walked away unassisted.
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\u201cTrump reacts to Biden falling on stage earlier today: "You got to be careful about that. Because you don\u2019t want that. Even if you have to tiptoe down a ramp."\u201dâ Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1685648176
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Rolling Stone reported that there is a war for online influencers between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis as the two campaigns kick into high gear.
DeSantis is reportedly "offering access and (in one case) a job to buttress the governorâs online army," Rolling Stone reported.
Another "get" for both would be the conservative alternative to "The Onion," known as "The Babylon Bee." Trump has been known to tweet stories from the site, not knowing they were jokes. "The Bee reciprocated the affection with shots at the presidentâs enemies."
But Rolling Stone reported that in Februrary far-right activist and Trump supporter Laura Loomer spotted a $21,500 payment from DeSantis' PAC to the Bee during his governor's race. Owner of the Bee, Seth Dillon, told her that the money was for "joke/speechwriting," Rolling Stone reported.
"In text messages reviewed by Rolling Stone, Dillon claimed to Loomer that the payments were about helping DeSantis fight Democrats, not Trump."
Dillon told Loomer: âYou could consider us speech writing consultants. We help him find funny angles on Democrats. We donât attack Trump for him. Thatâs silly and false. They have never suggested that we write anything about Trump.â
Regardless, Trump was furious, a source told Rolling Stone. Loomer told Trump about it as the two dined one evening. Trump's campaign finance data for the committee or the Save America PAC doesn't show he's paid Loomer for any work she's done in the past several months.
âYou donât spend that much money on The Babylon Bee if youâre running for Governor, in fact, you donât spend money on The Babylon Bee if youâre running for anything!â Trump wrote.
It has sent the conspiracy mill spinning with suspicion about the relationship between Dillon and DeSantis. He gave about $40,000 to DeSantis' "Empower Parents PAC" before the gubernatorial election. Dillion was also on hand for DeSantis' "Digital Bill of Rights" law, Rolling Stone reported.
âIf a campaign pays you for a specific task or a specific email rental or whatever it is, that doesnât mean youâre in their pocket and youâre gonna do what they say. Nobody from the DeSantis team has ever given me an order or implied such or ever will give me an order that I will comply with,â Dillon said in a Twitter Spaces conversation last week, Rolling Stone reported.
âI voted for Trump multiple times. The country was better off when he was running it,â Dillon continued when asked about the top GOP candidates. âIâm good friends with people in the Trump family and so you know this idea that I view MAGA as a whole as a cult and Iâm on DeSantisâ team is just silly. Iâm not bought and paid by DeSantis.â
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'Tell it to God': Evangelical pastor spars with Ted Cruz over Ugandaâs 'Kill the Gays' law
June 01, 2023
A Florida pastor with ties to GOP Governor Ron DeSantis insists his recent remarks attacking U.S. Senator Ted Cruz should not be viewed as an endorsement of the biblical call for gay people to be executed. But heâs not saying he is opposed to it either.
As The Daily Beast first reported, Tom Ascol, the senior pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral, Florida, blasted the Texas Republican Senator, who surprised many when he called Ugandaâs new âKill the Gaysâ law âhorrific & wrong.â
âAny law criminalizing homosexuality or imposing the death penalty for âaggravated homosexualityâ is grotesque & an abomination. ALL civilized nations should join together in condemning this human rights abuse,â Cruz actually tweeted.
That would be the same Ted Cruz who in 2015 claimed gay people were waging a âjihadâ against Christians.
Pastor Ascol, who delivered the invocation at Governor DeSantisâ second inauguration, has been called the man who could bring evangelicals from Donald Trump and deliver them to Ron DeSantis.
On Tuesday Ascol tweeted, âTell it to God, Ted.â
He then quoted the Book of Leviticus, writing: âIf a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.â
âWas this law God gave to His old covenant people âhorrific and wrongâ?â Ascol asked.
Ascol two hours later tweeted, âAmazing how many professing Christians, even self-designated âconservativeâ ones, are embarrassed by Godâs Word. Just quote some unpopular words of God & watch what happens. Many so-called Christians react the same way that unashamed unbelievers do. Itâs a commentary.â
Cruz did not reply, but some others did.
David Smith, whose Twitter bio reads, â25 yrs trusting Jesus!â replied: âWe no longer live under the Levitical laws @tomascol.â
âIf so, we would have to apply the same standard to adultery. (Leviticus 20:10) I agree that all of these things are sin, but where does grace come in? Jesus was clearly in no hurry to condemn in John 8:1-11.â
Pastor Ascol apparently liked the reply from Steven Hasty, which reads: âMany of you are missing the point. If youâre understanding this Tweet to mean Pastor Tom thinks we should start executing homosexuals, youâre missing it. Instead, heâs challenging the standards of Cruz. Where does Cruz derive his standards?â
Apparently whether or not itâs acceptable to execute LGBTQ people isnât an issue (except it is, since the entire âdebateâ its based on Ugandaâs new âKill the Gaysâ law.)
âPastor Tomâ told Hasty, âYou are exactly right. Some people donât read carefully. Others, evidently, donât reason well. Thanks for clarifying & accurately expressing what I *actually* wrote. Keep pressing on.â
Ascol didnât say whether or not he supports the execution of LGBTQ people, heâs merely debating, as Hasty put it, âstandards.â
The Daily Beast also reports, âAscolâs tweetâĤcertainly seemed to suggest that the execution of gay people had a biblical blessing,â and notes that âeven on careful reading, most reasonable people would assume Ascol was suggesting that Ugandaâs anti-gay law is not intrinsically âhorrific and wrong.'â
Ascol, The Beast adds, âhas repeatedly called for homicide charges against any woman who has an abortion for whatever reason. He has compared choosing to terminate a pregnancy to retaining a killer for hire.â
ââItâs like saying if I donât murder someone, but I just contracted a murderer to murder someone, Iâm not culpable,â Ascol said on a Christian radio show in 2022.â
The tweet posted to the top of Ascolâs Twitter page says, âIf your commitment to the authority of Scripture is limited by cultural sensitivities then itâs not really Scriptureâs authority to which you are committed.â
Supporting or opposing the execution of LGBTQ people isnât about âcultural sensitivities.â
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