Posted on 04/15/2018 10:31:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Actress Caitlyn Jenner told PJM that she is satisfied with President Trump’s job performance in “certain areas” but transgender rights issues are not among them.
Jenner also said many of the DREAMers are “great Americans” and she hopes Congress makes “the right decision” on fixing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Jenner joined actor Richard Gere at the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute’s annual gala Wednesday, where Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) was honored for her years of “public service and international leadership” as the first Hispanic woman elected to Congress.
Jenner was asked if she thinks Congress should provide legal status to the DREAMers, immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.
“Well, I think it’s a tough decision for Congress and what they’re doing right now. They need to support the people that have been here and we’ll see what happens, but supporting – a lot of them are, you know, great Americans, right now. They came here at a very young age so yeah, I hope they make the right decision,” Jenner said during an interview at the CHLI gala.
Jenner has expressed opposition to Trump’s ban on transgender individuals serving in the military. Trump reversed the policy set by the Obama administration that allowed transgender individuals to serve openly in the military and permitted the Pentagon to pay for medical gender reassignment.
Last year, Jenner said she disagreed with the Trump administration’s decision to end protections that the Obama administration put in place for transgender students, which allowed them to use bathrooms in public schools that match their gender identity rather than their biological sex.
Event organizers interrupted the interview before Jenner could identify the areas where she approves of Trump.
Ros-Lehtinen applauded Jenner for her LGBT rights advocacy at the event.
“Thank you, because fighting for gay rights and transgender rights is such an important part of my DNA and what I do, and you’re a great spokeswoman for this cause,” the GOP congresswoman, who has a transgender son, told Jenner.
Ros-Lehtinen told PJM that Trump has been “right on the money” when it comes to human rights issues in Latin America.
“Although I have been very critical of the Trump administration on many aspects of his policies, when it comes to advancing human rights in Cuba, in Venezuela, in Nicaragua, he has been right on the money and I have no complaints. He has understood the difference between right and wrong,” she said during an interview at the event.
“He said I’m standing with the people and not with the regimes, and he has sanctioned more Venezuelan thugs of [President Nicolas] Maduro than the previous administration,” she added. “So, in the short time Trump has been there, more than the eight years of Obama, and Maduro has been bad for an awfully long time and [Hugo] Chavez before him, so it’s not like he just turned bad.”
Ros-Lehtinen, whose family moved to the U.S. from Cuba when she was a child, applauded Trump for rolling back the “regulations that were one-sided concessions.”
“So I thank him for everything he has done in my native homeland and in Venezuela, which is like my adopted land, so I am very happy with that,” she said.
Ros-Lehtinen continued, “The greatest challenge we have is to continue explaining why human rights matters to the American public – that, yes, it’s great to have cheap products from this country and that country, but it’s human rights. It’s democracy. It’s the advancement of American values and that’s what CHLI wants to do – free market, free trade, fair trade.”
Actor and human rights activist Gere delivered a speech at the ceremony but declined interviews.
He also cut taxes, hated - and was selling to go to war with- the commies, touted the NRA, and floated a currency backed by silver, unlike china loving nixon. (*spit*)
In many ways he was far right of today's republican leadership, such as ryan, mcdonnell, graham...(*spit*).
Poor Bruce. I really do feel sorry for him.
Bruce is mentally unstable and needs intense psychotherapy...and probably meds.
Did they rescue Lemmiwinks?
Tolerance will not be tolerated.
Now you must encourage and support every silly notion that comes down the pike or you are labeled a Hater or worse.
Live and let live is an outdated way of thinking.
Submit or die.
Why should normal people care what Confused Kookie the so called actor formally known as Brooth Jenner has to say or think assuming he still has a functional brain.
Haaaaa ha!
Well, so far, Jenner’s other issue is letting all the DACA people stay, which has not been addressed. If these DACA people get to stay, they can then each bring in their many, many immediate family members (perhaps not the deported parents as that bars re-admission at the moment...but expect that to change). Are we ready for that? If the DACA people get to stay, it should be with the dictate that they can’t sponsor other family members to come, else we’ll be swamped.
They aren't any kind of American, much less great.
Did they rescue Lemmiwinks?
He is NOT a mental health expert, so why should he deal with those issues? He has a department of health, I think.
Perhaps he is willing to lose that 1/2 of 1% of voters who care about homosexual sex.
Actress Caitlyn Jenner? Is that any relation to Mentally Ill Has-Been Bruce Jenner, I wonder?
Trump has given the “issue” exactly the attention it deserves.
Words fail. Ten years ago, this freak would be a complete joke.
I don’t recall Trump mentioning Jenner in one way or another.
He’s just not getting the attention and adoration he thinks he deserves, and needs someone to blame.
Wow, I’ve forgotten all about her, him, uh....whatever
Well maybe Bruce is an actress since he is playing a drag-queen full-time now.
Oh, and apparently there is now growing tension between the “transgenders” and the “drag-queens” in the LGBTQQQQQ world, because the transgenders think the drag-queens make light of their identities.... or something like that.
Yeah, but you used to have to pay a quarter to see them in the roadshow, and they slept in the carny tents and never ventured into town.
Well Jenner is horrible on physical reality issues!
Transgender concerns are a mental health issue. It is well outside of the scope of his Constitutional responsibilities.
“She” is, eh?
BFD
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