Trump admin. launches global effort to end criminalization of homosexuality

[Swordsmyth]

The Trump administration has reportedly been rejecting requests from U.S. embassies to fly the Pride flag during LGBT Pride Month.

U.S. embassies in Israel, Germany, Brazil and Latvia were denied by the Trump State Department to fly the flag this month, according to NBC News, citing three American diplomats. The embassies have been allowed to display the flags in and around the area, however none have been approved to display the flag on flagpoles.
The policy is a reversal from the Obama administration, who gave blanket permission to any embassy wanting to fly the Pride flag. Last Friday marked the first time since Trump took office that he formally recognized Pride Month.

https://newsbreakinglive.com/2019/06...ly-pride-flag/

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

In related news:


A West Virginia lawmaker is facing calls to resign after comparing LGBT people to the KKK

CNN
Wed February 13, 2019

Delegate Eric Porterfield, who represents West Virginia's 27th district, has a history of anti-LGBT stances. But things came to a head last week during a House meeting over a proposed amendment to an anti-LGBT-discrimination bill.
During the February 6 meeting Porterfield called the bill, which would include LGBT people as a protected class under the state's Human Rights Act, "bigoted," "intolerant" and "discriminatory."
"The LGBT is the most socialist group in this country," he continued, according to the Charleston Gazette-Mail. "They do not protect gays. There are many gays they persecute if they do not line up with their social ideology."

That truth bomb hit so hard it shattered my screen

The hilarious part of this story to me is they reacted exactly as he predicted.

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Strong move, thanks to bold leadership tone set at the top:

Illinois adopts law requiring LGBT history lessons to be taught in public schools

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Another reason to oppose MAGA impeachment, he is million times better than Pence on LGBTQ civil rights:



LGBTQ people have a lot at stake in Donald Trump’s impeachment

If Pence goes down with him, we’ll have President Pelosi.

By Alex Bollinger Thursday, September 26, 2019

LGBTQ equality could be affected by the result of the impeachment inquiry that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) opened earlier this week.

The U.S. House of Representatives has started the process to potentially remove Donald Trump from office following reports of a whistleblower in the U.S. intelligence community. The anonymous official has accused Trump of pressuring Ukraine’s new government to investigate Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden’s family.



If the House votes to impeach and 2/3 of the Senate votes to remove Trump from office, LGBTQ equality hangs in the balance.
In one possible outcome, Congress only removes Trump from office and Mike Pence succeeds him.

Pence has a long and deep history of working against the LGBTQ population’s interests. He opposed any legislation to advance equality when he was a member of the House, then as the governor of Indiana, and again as vice president.

Even Trump reportedly joked about how anti-LGBTQ Pence is, saying that Pence “wants to hang them all.”

lgbtqnation.com/2019/09/lgbtq-people-lot-stake-donald-trumps-impeachment/







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Trump is selling ‘LGBTQ for Trump’ T-shirts for Pride month
24^th May 2019




The Trump Pride Tee. (donaldjtrump.com) US President Donald Trump is marketing a “Trump Pride Tee” in his online shop, next to “Make America Great Again” hats.
The T-shirt, which reads “LGBTQ for Trump,” is now on sale for $24, down from $30.
 The caption for the T-shirt reads: “Show your pride and your support for Trump with this exclusive equality tee.” It is “proudly made in the USA.”
pinknews.co.uk/2019/05/24/donald-trump-selling-lgbtq-t-shirts-pride-month


Trump administration launches global effort to end criminalization of homosexuality
Feb. 19, 2019
By Josh Lederman
BERLIN — The Trump administration is launching a global campaign to end the criminalization of homosexuality in dozens of nations where it's still illegal to be gay, U.S. officials tell NBC News, a bid aimed in part at denouncing Iran over its human rights record.
U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, the highest-profile openly gay person in the Trump administration, is leading the effort, which kicks off Tuesday evening in Berlin. The U.S. embassy is flying in LGBT activists from across Europe for a strategy dinner to plan to push for decriminalization in places that still outlaw homosexuality — mostly concentrated in the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean.
“It is concerning that, in the 21st century, some 70 countries continue to have laws that criminalize LGBTI status or conduct,” said a U.S. official involved in organizing the event.

Donald Trump Jr.‏ Verified account @DonaldJTrumpJr
This is a really big deal and with @Richardgrenell at the helm it will get done!!! Trump administration launches global effort to end criminalization of homosexuality https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-launches-global-effort-end-criminalization-homosexuality-n973081 … via @nbcnews



Gay Teacher Of The Year Fans LGBTQ Pride In Viral Photo With Donald Trump
Nikos Giannopoulos “celebrates the joy and freedom of gender nonconformity” in a photo with Donald and Melania Trump.

A Milestone: All Of The Walking Dead's Relationships Are Now Interracial Or LGBT
Nov 14, 2018
https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertc...acial-or-lgbt/

Trump top donor Sheldon Adelson-Funded Paper Israel Hayom Prints Gay Dad Ad
Sep 22, 2016
https://forward.com/news/israel/3504...with-gay-dads/

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How many supporters of MAGA global policy in OP news would support boycott of Kellogs over their new messaging?

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Yeah, this will help keep Texas "Red" in 2020 as well.

If Texas Turns Blue, Trump Loses -- Which Explains The Persistence Of This False Narrative
Chuck DeVore

Some Texas billboards displaying an angst about the Lone Star State's new residents.
Posted Facebook and Reddit

A new cottage industry has sprung up among political punditry. In dozens of articles, analysis pieces and opinion columns, the new conventional wisdom is that urbanization, an influx of blue staters attracted to jobs and a low cost of living, along with international immigration are combining to inexorably turn Texas blue.
The blue Texas theme is so powerful among anti-Trump writers because of Electoral College math: Trump can win Texas and still lose reelection in 2020, but he can’t lose Texas and win reelection.
Endlessly repeating a falsehood may not make it true, but it does increase the likelihood that it becomes accepted wisdom.
The latest example was a piece in The Atlantic by Derek Thompson entitled, “American Migration Patterns Should Terrify the GOP.” Thompson starts his piece by noting that urban cores are liberal, not just in America, but worldwide. This is true. High cost cities tend to attract young, single professionals. Thompson leaves out the postscript though. These young professionals, once they’ve earned some money, often move to the suburbs to raise a family, where they begin the process of becoming more conservative.

forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2019/09/23/if-texas-turns-blue-trump-loses-which-explains-the-persistence-of-this-false-narrative/

[Swordsmyth]

President Donald Trump said he was a different kind of Republican. As someone from liberal New York, he signaled that he would be the person to finally move his political party on LGBTQ issues. He held up a Pride flag at a campaign event, and he said the key acronym (“L, G, B, T … Q”) at the 2016 Republican convention.
But Trump’s administration, based on its first year, has been anything but LGBTQ-friendly.
“He campaigned saying that he would be a good friend to LGBT people,” James Esseks, director of the ACLU’s LGBT and HIV Project, told me. “Actions speak far louder than words. And what he’s done has been a wreck.”
In its first year, the Trump administration has tried to reinstate a ban on transgender people in the military. It has nominated multiple people to the courts and elsewhere who have anti-LGBTQ records. It has directed its army of federal lawyers to take the anti-LGBTQ side in court cases. And it has done some extraordinarily petty things, like refusing to recognize Pride Month.


Many of the anti-LGBTQ actions the Trump administration took during its first year got very little attention in the mainstream press, typically receiving a couple of days of coverage at most. But as I reviewed the administration’s record, I was surprised by its breadth and scope. Altogether, it represents a distinctly anti-LGBTQ agenda.
Trump “doesn’t talk a lot about LGBTQ people,” Rebecca Isaacs, executive director of the LGBTQ rights group Equality Federation, told me. “But he’s done so many things that are as anti-LGBTQ as you could possibly be.” She added that they are things that might not seem “as clear as being anti–marriage equality,” but ultimately are anti-LGBTQ.
Here are some of the major anti-LGBTQ actions that Trump took during his first year in office:

• He tried to reinstate a ban on trans people joining and openly serving in the military. The Obama administration in 2016 announced plans to reverse the ban in 2017. But Trump, in a series of tweets last July, announced he would bring it back, arguing that trans-related health care is expensive. (Research from the RAND Corporation indicates that it would make up “a 0.04- to 0.13-percent increase in active-component health care expenditures.”) So far, Trump’s ban has been stymied by the courts — and trans people are now allowed to openly enlist and serve.
• Trump appointed Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court to replace the consistently anti-LGBTQ Antonin Scalia. Although Gorsuch had a vague record on LGBTQ rights when he was nominated, civil rights advocates argued that, based on some of his past writings on marriage equality and religious issues, he could be a big opponent for LGBTQ equality. In just a few months on the bench, Gorsuch has proven advocates right; for one, he dissented against a Supreme Court ruling that requires states to list same-sex parents on birth certificates.
• Nearly one-third of Trump’s judicial nominees have anti-LGBTQ records, according to Lambda Legal. These nominees, if accepted by the Senate, may rule on major LGBTQ issues over the next few years, from anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ workers to trans access to bathrooms.
• The Trump administration rescinded a nonbinding Obama-era guidance that told K-12 schools that receive federal funding that trans students are protected under federal civil rights law and, therefore, schools should respect trans students’ rights, including their right to use bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity.The Trump administration took back the guidance altogether, arguing trans students aren’t protected under federal civil rights law.
• Trump’s Justice Department also rescinded another Obama-era memo that said trans workers are protected under civil rights law. This has enabled the federal government, including its army of attorneys, to now argue in court that anti-trans discrimination isn’t illegal under federal law. The courts are ultimately independent of the Trump administration, but the federal government can play a big role in legal arguments by throwing its people and resources behind a case.
• In a major Supreme Court case, Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the Trump administration argued in court in favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop, a bakery that’s claiming First Amendment rights to discriminate against same-sex couples. The case could have potentially enormous repercussions — opening a big loophole in anti-discrimination laws, particularly those that protect LGBTQ people, by letting business owners cite religious or moral justifications to discriminate.
• Trump’s Justice Department argued that anti-gay discrimination is legal, filing a friend-of-the-court brief claiming that the federal Civil Rights Act doesn’t protect gay and bisexual workers. The lawsuit in this case was filed by Donald Zarda, a skydiving instructor who says an employer, Altitude Express, fired him due to his sexual orientation. The Justice Department in effect argued that this was legal under federal law.
• The Justice Department has similarly taken anti-LGBTQ steps in other cases across the country, including one about North Carolina’s anti-trans bathroom law and one about discrimination against trans people in health care. “We’ve gone from a position where LGBT people are protected to one where we’re not,” Esseks of the ACLU said.
• The Trump administration sent out a “religious liberty” guidance to federal agencies, essentially asking them to respect “religious-liberty protections” in all of the federal government’s work. It’s unclear what kind of impact the guidance will have, but LGBTQ organizations worry that it will be used to justify discrimination against LGBTQ people within the federal government and its work.
• The Department of Health and Human Services enacted a new regulation and created an agency, the Division of Conscience and Religious Freedom, that will purportedly work to ensure health care providers’ religious liberties aren’t violated. LGBTQ groups argue this agency will effectively give doctors, nurses, and other medical staff cover to discriminate against LGBTQ people, because providers will now get protection from the federal government if they cite religious or moral objections to refuse service to LGBTQ patients.
• Without explanation, Trump fired all the members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. “It’s outstanding,” Isaacs said. “HIV isn’t only in the LGBTQ community, but it largely is.”
• Trump failed to recognize LGBTQ Pride Month.

More at: https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/...tq-anniversary


And that was just the first year.

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• Without explanation, Trump fired all the members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. “It’s outstanding,” Isaacs said. “HIV isn’t only in the LGBTQ community, but it largely is.”

....
And that was just the first year.

To be fair, during first year he was also labeled 'racist', 'anti-semite' by media.
But come second and third year, media changed it's tone sharply and started publishing articles about his pro-diversity leadership, Abe Lincoln comparisons.


This was just the third year:

Trump administration launches global effort to end AIDS
Feb 6, 2019 WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is launching a campaign to end the HIV epidemic in the United States by 2030, targeting areas where new infections happen and getting highly effective drugs to people at risk.
His move is being greeted with a mix of skepticism and cautious optimism by anti-AIDS activists. State and local health officials are warning the administration not to take money from other programs to finance the initiative, whose budget has not been revealed.

• Trump failed to recognize LGBTQ Pride Month.

....
And that was just the first year.

May have been busy with other projects during first year:

Trump is selling ‘LGBTQ for Trump’ T-shirts for Pride month
24^th May 2019


The Trump Pride Tee. (donaldjtrump.com) US President Donald Trump is marketing a “Trump Pride Tee” in his online shop, next to “Make America Great Again” hats.
The T-shirt, which reads “LGBTQ for Trump,” is now on sale for $24, down from $30.
 The caption for the T-shirt reads: “Show your pride and your support for Trump with this exclusive equality tee.” It is “proudly made in the USA.”
pinknews.co.uk/2019/05/24/donald-trump-selling-lgbtq-t-shirts-pride-month

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Rainbow Wave 2.0: Nearly 100 LGBTQ candidates claim victory in Tuesday's elections

Almost 100 LGBTQ candidates claimed victory in Tuesday's elections, with anti-trans ads falling flat in important Virginia and Kentucky races.
NBC News



This should help media acknowledge MAGA's unprecedented leadership in boosting sexual-orientation-diversity in US politics.
Very likely, the most pro LGBTQ POTUS in entire US history.

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From the looks of today’s press conference, this seems to be a “fluff” policy report with no real intent on any significant action other than placating the left. Trump doesn’t even seem aware of it. Smoke and mirrors.

Fake claim.






Trump issued his Pride commemoration in a tweet that promoted his initiative targeting laws around the world that criminalize being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender

Trump becomes first Republican president to promote LGBT Pride Month

[TER]

Fake claim.






Trump issued his Pride commemoration in a tweet that promoted his initiative targeting laws around the world that criminalize being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender

Trump becomes first Republican president to promote LGBT Pride Month

It wasn’t a fake claim when I made it, liar. But you are enhanced deceit, so not a surprise.

By the way, are you going to answer what happened to your comrade “golden equity”?

Everyone knows what you are about. It’s sad and pathetic. I really do pity you.

[Anti Globalist]

I don't hate gays, but it is pretty annoying when its shoved down our throats 24/7. You can't watch a television show nowadays without seeing one gay/lesbian/bi/transgender. They're trying to make it as if half the nation is made up of these people. In reality, they only make up 1-2% of the population here in the US.

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Robeto89, you seem confused, were you confusing this thread with some other discussion or news report? This is a thread about LGBTQ rights and GOP MAGA policies.

How anti-Semitic beliefs have taken hold among some evangelical Christians
August 22

“Why do we have pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ values, and we do not have more freedom to protect our faith? We are persecuted now,” Yanko says about evangelical Christians like herself. “[Jews] say, ‘We’ve got America. We control America.’ That’s what I know.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/relig...cal-christians

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Left wing TV media had conveniently forgot to report this:

LGBT Republican group that declined to back Trump in 2016 endorses him for 2020
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...on/2038865001/

[jon4liberty]

Sodomy shouldn't be promoted. Allowed fine...promoted no

[Swordsmyth]

Sodomy shouldn't be promoted. Allowed fine...promoted no

e_d doesn't care, he just posts this stuff to try and make conservatives hate Trump, he has had it proven to him multiple times that Trump has been rolling back the weirdosexual agenda no matter what he might say to win their votes and had it pointed out to him that decriminalizing it is libertarian but his only agenda is to bash Trump.

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No matter what you think of Trump on big gummit spending or globalist interventions, this would not have been possible with political climate under Bush or any Republican President other than Trump.
Credit should be given where due.

Pete Buttigieg posts photo of himself with husband Chasten, calling them ‘a first family’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...a-first-family

[donnay]

No matter what you think of Trump on big gummit spending or globalist interventions, this would not have been possible with political climate under Bush or any Republican President other than Trump.
Credit should be given where due.

Really?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ustice-scalia/
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2015...edding-report/
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles...s-legalize-one

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Really?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ustice-scalia/
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2015...edding-report/
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles...s-legalize-one

Political climate started changing after W Bush left office, credit goes to both Obama and Trump's strong leadership on LGBTQ rights, gay weddings. W Bush/Rove eingineered election win in part by mobilizing GOP Christian base on DOMA/Gay Marriage opposition. Back then, social liberal billionnaires didn't use to fund GOP Presidential candidates and GOP base used to frown upon social liberal values/RINOs etc.
When was the last time the term 'RINO' was used by GOP pundits? Probably not since start of MAGA revolution.

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Bold move:

Donald Trump Says He Could Vote for a Gay Presidential Candidate

49Joshua Lott/AFP/GettyCharlie Spiering13 Feb 2020484 1:25
President Donald Trump indicated that he would be comfortable voting for a gay presidential candidate, in an interview aired on Thursday.
The president commented on the 2020 presidential race during a podcast interview with Geraldo Riviera released on Thursday.
Riviera asked Trump if Americans would vote for a gay presidential candidate.
“I think that, yes, I think that it doesn’t seem to be hurting Pete Boot-edge-edge as you say, as you would call him,” Trump said, referring to Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. It doesn’t seem to be hurting him very much,” Trump said.
Trump acknowledged that some Americans would not vote for a gay candidate because of his sexuality.
“[T]here would be a group that probably wouldn’t. But, you know, you or I wouldn’t be in that group,”he said.

breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/13/donald-trump-says-he-could-vote-for-a-gay-presidential-candidate/


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Don Jr 2024

Donald Trump Jr.‏ Verified account @DonaldJTrumpJr
This is a really big deal and with @Richardgrenell at the helm it will get done!!! Trump administration launches global effort to end criminalization of homosexuality https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-launches-global-effort-end-criminalization-homosexuality-n973081 … via @nbcnews




New US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell with husband Matt Lashey and Don Jr.

MAGA Rainbow Wave: Nearly 100 LGBTQ candidates claim victory in Tuesday's elections
Nov 6, 2019

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Don Jr 2024

Donald Trump Jr.‏ Verified account @DonaldJTrumpJr
This is a really big deal and with @Richardgrenell at the helm it will get done!!! Trump administration launches global effort to end criminalization of homosexuality https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-launches-global-effort-end-criminalization-homosexuality-n973081 … via @nbcnews




New US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell with husband Matt Lashey and Don Jr.

MAGA Rainbow Wave: Nearly 100 LGBTQ candidates claim victory in Tuesday's elections
Nov 6, 2019

Another bold move:




Trump hails Bollywood film with gay romance ahead of India visit

by Madison Dibble
| February 21, 2020
President Trump welcomed the news that Bollywood is producing a film featuring gay characters.
In a tweet Friday, Trump said it was "great” that a new romantic comedy produced in India would feature gay characters less than a year and a half after homosexuality was decriminalized in that country.
He retweeted the announcement from Peter Tatchell, a gay rights activist, who wrote, “A new #Bollywood rom-com featuring a gay romance is hoping to win over older people, following the decriminalisation of homosexuality. Hurrah!”

Great! https://t.co/eDf8ltInmH
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 21, 2020

Trump administration has been working to decriminalize homosexuality around the globe. U.S. Ambassador to Germany and incoming acting Director of Intelligence Richard Grenell, who is gay, led the effort urging countries to stop arresting and torturing gay individuals.

Trump announced the effort in June, which is pride month, tweeting, “As we celebrate LGBT Pride Month and recognize the outstanding contributions LGBT people have made to our great Nation, let us also stand in solidarity with the many LGBT people who live in dozens of countries worldwide that punish, imprison, or even execute individuals on the basis of their sexual orientation.”

He continued, “My Administration has launched a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality and invite all nations to join us in this effort!”
In India, homosexuality was illegal until September 2018, when the nation’s Supreme Court ruled in favor of gay rights activists. Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have a close relationship, even holding a joint rally in Texas featuring both world leaders. Trump is set to visit Modi in India next week.

washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-hails-bollywood-film-with-gay-romance-ahead-of-india-visit

[Firestarter]

e_d doesn't care, he just posts this stuff to try and make conservatives hate Trump, he has had it proven to him multiple times that Trump has been rolling back the weirdosexual agenda no matter what he might say to win their votes and had it pointed out to him that decriminalizing it is libertarian but his only agenda is to bash Trump.

I once asked you to back up your claim that President Donald is anti-LGBT... You replied with an interesting article (that I couldn't find back even if I tried) posted in at least 2 threads, that could be explained either way. Donald has both done things or made statements that are anti-LGBT and pro-LGBT.


The following Wikipedia article suggests (check the links) that Trump is even more pro-LGBT than Clinton.

On July 19, 2016, Gays for Trump hosted a party, called "Wake Up!", at the Wolstein Center, in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, during the 2016 Republican National Convention. Speakers at the party were Milo Yiannopoulos and Pam Geller and the VIP guests at the party were Ann Coulter, Amy Kremer, Lisa De Pasquale, Genevieve Wood, Geert Wilders, and Roger Stone. Richard B. Spencer also attended the party.

On January 20, 2017, Gays for Trump hosted an inauguration party, called "Gays for Trump DeploraBall Gala", was held at the Bolger Center Hotel in Potomac, Maryland, United States. The party celebrated the inauguration of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gays_for_Trump

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This may also mean less intel about unseen enemy aka coronvirus for countries that refuse to embrace modern values and continue to follow teachings of outdated religious books. Christian conservatives' old slogan God-Family-Country could be a thing of the past that to America-First (Country-Family-Human Rights-God) leadership.



U.S. May Share Less Intelligence With Countries That Criminalize Homosexuality

The move is part of an effort by the acting director of national intelligence to prod countries that outlaw homosexuality to instead decriminalize it.

The intelligence community should be pushing American values with the countries it does business with, Richard Grenell, the acting director of national intelligence, said in an interview this week.Credit...Bernd von Jutrczenka/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

By Julian E. Barnes
April 22, 2020


WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering cutting back on sharing intelligence with partner countries that criminalize homosexuality as part of a push by the acting director of national intelligence, Richard Grenell, to prod those nations to change their laws.

The intelligence community should be pushing American values with the countries it works with, Mr. Grenell said in an interview this week.

“We can’t just simply make the moral argument and expect others to respond in kind because telling others that it’s the right thing to do doesn’t always work,” he said. But, he added, “to fight for decriminalization is to fight for basic human rights.”

Mr. Grenell is thought to be the first openly gay cabinet member and has put anti-discrimination issues near the top of his agenda. In his earlier post as the American ambassador to Germany, Mr. Grenell began last year assembling gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender groups from the United States and other countries as part of the administration’s effort to change anti-gay laws.


While tying human rights reforms to national security is often the hallmark of Democratic administrations, mixing hard-power priorities with trade and other issues has been part of President Trump’s foreign policy.

Stuart Milk, head of the Harvey Milk Foundation and nephew of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in a major American city, said Mr. Grenell reached out to work with his organization on decriminalization. Mr. Milk said he was cleareyed about the Trump administration’s poor record on L.G.B.T. rights, particularly given its efforts to roll back anti-discrimination efforts for transgender troops in the military.

nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/politics/intelligence-sharing-lgbt-laws.html







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US intel on threat of coronavirus shared with Israel and NATO in November: report

"The US knew": Report says American intel on the threat of coronavirus was dismissed by President Trump

Eoin Higgins
April 17, 2020

This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel free to republish and share widely.

"The smoking gun has arrived."

An Israeli news report on Thursday revealed that the country was told in November by U.S. intelligence about the potential threat of the coronavirus—warnings that were also made to NATO and to the White House—a clear contradiction of Pentagon claims last week that no such report existed.

"The smoking gun has arrived," tweeted Joel Rubin, a former aide to the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

The Smoking Gun has arrived.
The US knew about #Coronavirus in November and shared the intel with NATO and Israel.
There was no #WHO cover-up. Their funding should be immediately restored.https://t.co/IQdxZEtlWq
— Joel Rubin (@JoelMartinRubin) April 17, 2020

The information reportedly came from U.S. intelligence monitoring of internal Chinese communications that revealed the potential danger of the outbreak before it was publicly known.
The Times of Israel reported that U.S. intelligence agencies were aware of the disease as early as the second week of November and shared the information with President Donald Trump's White House, NATO, and Israel. The U.S. administration did not deem the report "of interest" while Israeli officials discussed the possibility of the threat but ultimately took no action. What NATO's response was to the report—if any—is thus far unknown.
Reporting on April 8 from ABC News revealed the existence of a November report by the National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) on the potential of a pandemic from the Wuhan outbreak.
salon.com/2020/04/17/us-intel-on-threat-of-coronavirus-shared-with-israel-and-nato-in-november-report_partner/



Trump Names Gay Fox News Contributor Head of Intelligence
New US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell with husband Matt Lashey and Don Jr.