Greensboro was the center of the GOP world last weekend when the North Carolina Republican Party held its state convention at the Koury Convention Center.
Three of the top contenders for the Republican presidential nomination spoke at the convention. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis spoke Friday evening, June 9, former Vice President Mike Pence spoke Saturday afternoon, June 10, and former President Donald Trump spoke Saturday evening.
Trump is well ahead in the polls, with the latest CBS News poll showing Trump with 61 percent, DeSantis with 23 percent and Pence with 6 percent.
When Trump spoke, he was quick to announce that he would be endorsing North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson for governor. Trump said, “I’m going to endorse Mark, but I’m not going to talk about it tonight. We’ll save it for another time.”
If anyone thought that the recent indictment of Trump for retaining 31 classified documents after he was no longer president would cause Trump to be more careful with his rhetoric, they were wrong.
Trump did not seem overly worried about the indictment when he spoke in Greensboro. Trump said that it was no accident that the day he was indicted was the same day the FBI was releasing information from an informant accusing President Joe Biden of taking a $5 million bribe from Ukraine.
Trump said, “This vicious persecution is a travesty of justice. You’re watching Joe Biden try to jail his leading political opponent. Think of it. This is like third world countries. He tries to put his opponent, who is leading him by a lot, and he wants to put him in jail over following a civil act. This is a simple thing, the Presidential Records Act. It’s all under the Presidential Records Act, as it should be.”
Trump had started his prepared remarks saying, “For seven years we’ve been engaged in an epic struggle to rescue our country from the sinister forces who actually hate it and want to destroy it. I really believe they want to destroy it.”
And to make sure nobody misunderstood what he was talking about, Trump said, “On Nov. 5, 2024, I’m going to evict a totally corrupt president named Joe Biden from the White House.”
Trump, as usual, also went after the “fake news” media. He noted that there is no scandal without the press and said, “The media is so important. They could straighten things out so quickly.” He added, “If they were honest, the country would be in such great shape.”
So, if the “fake news” media “could straighten things out so quickly,” why does the Rhino pass along Trump’s sewage without fact-checking his numerous lies and misrepresentations? Makes this reader believe you represent the worst of the “fake media.”
Was hoping to read about the other two in the Rhino, particularly DeSantis.
Trump is right.
The Left is evil.
Trump is rarely right. Good news is he endorsed Mark for Governor. Mark is sure to lose now based on more recent election results and how poorly Trump endorsement perform in statewide elections. LOL
Chris you still haven’t answered the question you were asked about the Bible, what it says about homosexuality and your supposedly Christian beliefs
Odd place to bring this up but ok.
Will start with quote from the Pope Franics: “This (laws around the world criminalizing LGBTIQ people) is not right. Persons with homosexual tendencies are children of God. God loves them. God accompanies them … condemning a person like this is a sin. Criminalizing people with homosexual tendencies is an injustice.”
Then there is the word Jesus: Mark 29-31 love of God and love of neighbor (note he didn’t say unless they are gay). One of the key lessons from Mark is that Jesus makes clear that God loves is about inclusion. NOT exclusion. Note: In Mark 12:24, Jesus addresses the Sadducees, who were the traditional high priests of ancient Israel and played an important role in the temple. Among those who confronted Jesus, they represented the group that held to a conservative theological position and used their interpretation of the Scripture to exclude. Jesus said to them:
“Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you do not understand the Scriptures or the power of God?”
Those who would exclude homosexuals from God’s kingdom choose to ignore Jesus, turning instead to the Old Testament. The most common examples are Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, These versus re not about “homosexuality” as we now understand it – as the caring, loving and sexual relationship between people of the same sex. These texts are about relationships that cross boundaries of purity (between clean and unclean) and ethnicity (Israelite and Canaanite).
Happy to discuss in greater detail anytime you like.
I was not asking for what I he Poe thinks or for Bible verses. I asked a simple question that you have not answered you sound as the White House spokesperson wrote this for you. Let’s try again, same question chris how do you PERSONALLY feel
We need a popular centrist candidate that can turn the Country around. The only one I see so far is RFK, Jr.
What about Christie?