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President Trump’s left-wing critics .No, I’m not exaggerating.President Alphonso David has that Trump, the first president to enter office supportive of gay marriage, is the “worst president on LGBTQ issues ever.” That’s right: The man who runs the biggest left-wing gay and transgender rights organization in the country actually thinks that Trump is more anti-gay than presidents were 200 years ago.Meanwhile, prominent top left-wing activists in the gay and transgender community argue that for gay and transgender voters, electing Joe Biden in November is a matter of life and death.“LGBTQ voters are poised to make a deciding difference this election year,” GLAAD President Kate Ellis has . “Our community understands how much is at stake in this election. We cannot sit this one out — our very lives are on the line.”These unhinged exaggerations are, sadly, not fringe examples, but fairly representative of the disposition of the mainstream left-leaning gay and transgender communities and their Democratic Party allies. Still, people of good faith may seriously believe that while these criticisms are exaggerated, the Trump administration is indeed anti-gay and actively undermining equality for gay and transgender people.But a , from GLAAD itself, casts serious doubt on this narrative.The Trump administration’s record is not perfect, and its transgender military restrictions stand out as one example where it did implement an . Yet from false claims that Trump was to , people have been fed a steady stream of stories about “anti-LGBTQ” actions by this administration that are often either exaggerated or baseless.One good sign that the Trump administration isn’t actually very “anti-LGBT” at all is the fact that Trump’s share of the gay and transgender vote is set to increase this November. In 2016, he received . Yet GLAAD’s (which, if anything, skews leftward and likely underestimates Trump's support) puts his expected 2020 support among LGBT voters at 17%.The survey that 18% of gay men, 11% of lesbian women, and 18% of transgender people plan on voting for Trump.With the 2020 presidential election just a month away, 75% of voters say they support while 17% back according to a new poll from via — NBC Out (@NBCOUT)To argue that Trump is the most anti-LGBT president in history means suggesting, with a straight face, that nearly 1 in 5 gay men and nearly 1 in 5 transgender people intend to vote for a man who hates them.And it seems absurd to argue that the Trump administration has been viciously against gay and transgender people seeing as Trump appears to have gained, not lost, support among gay and transgender voters over four years.But don’t expect this poll, or any other dose of reality, to change the hyperbolic, anti-Trump tone coming out of the LGBT activist class. Why?It’s the money, stupid.As I’veIn 2018, according to publicly available financial documents, the [Human Rights Campaign’s] then-president, Chad Griffin, earned nearly $550,000 annually from the organization for his work. Both its vice presidents earned north of $325,000, and the top 17 highest-paid employees split almost $5 million in compensation. The organization boasts a roughly $25 million office complex in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., a sprawling edifice that includes a 'state-of-the-art multimedia production facility' and 'the stunning Equality Center, a meeting and event space.'Left-wing activists simply have to keep stirring up fake controversies and fueling identitarian grievance. Otherwise, the donor checks that fund their cushy salaries might start to dry up.Brad Polumbo () is a conservative journalist and Washington Examiner contributor.

President Trump’s left-wing critics .No, I’m not exaggerating.President Alphonso David has that Trump, the first president to enter office supportive of gay marriage, is the “worst president on LGBTQ issues ever.” That’s right: The man who runs the biggest left-wing gay and transgender rights organization in the country actually thinks that Trump is more anti-gay than presidents were 200 years ago.Meanwhile, prominent top left-wing activists in the gay and transgender community argue that for gay and transgender voters, electing Joe Biden in November is a matter of life and death.“LGBTQ...

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Brad Polumbo (@Brad_Polumbo) is a libertarian-conservative journalist and the Eugene S. Thorpe Writing Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. He was previously a Media and Journalism Fellow at the Washington Examiner and an editor at the libertarian media nonprofit Young Voices. His work has appeared in outlets such as USA Today, National Review, the Daily Beast, and the Boston Globe, and he has also appeared on Fox News and Fox Business.

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