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alp227

(31,959 posts)
Tue May 12, 2020, 09:50 PM May 2020

Trump Campaign Official Objects to 'POC Liberal Women' Asking 'Stupid Questions'

Source: The Wrap

Jenna Ellis, the senior legal adviser for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, dismissed criticism of Monday’s showdown between Trump and two female journalists, saying “POC liberal women have been present at every one” of the coronavirus press conferences and have “asked stupid questions.”

“This is coronavirus press conference number, what, probably somewhere in the 50s? POC liberal women have been present at every one of them and asked stupid questions. Sometimes for HOURS. This is the first time he’s just walked off. Finally. You know nothing. Stop gaslighting,” Ellis wrote on Twitter just past midnight Tuesday morning.

Ellis was responding to an academic who took issue with Trump abruptly walking out of his own coronavirus briefing, refusing to answer any more questions, after a tense exchange with CBS’ Weijia Jiang and CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. Trump’s exchange with Jiang was particularly buzzworthy, as he told her to “ask China” about the importance of coronavirus testing and she pushed back, questioning why he asked her “specifically,” to do that. Jiang, CBS News’ White House correspondent, was born in China and raised in West Virginia.

Read more: https://www.thewrap.com/jenna-ellis-poc-liberal-women-stupid-questions/



"at White House briefings" didn't fit in the title. Yep she said the quiet part out loud.
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Trump Campaign Official Objects to 'POC Liberal Women' Asking 'Stupid Questions' (Original Post) alp227 May 2020 OP
What does the fact that they are lPeople of Color, liberal, or women have to do with any of this? Sloumeau May 2020 #1
Ellis is the one who's gaslighting bucolic_frolic May 2020 #2
It just gets worse and worse. sakabatou May 2020 #3
Yeah, nothing worse to a white racist than 'POC liberal women!' PatrickforO May 2020 #4
I will be so glad when MATURE ADULTS take back the WH Haggis for Breakfast May 2020 #5
"don't hold back now"... stillcool May 2020 #6
That is why his cult elected him. BigmanPigman May 2020 #9
I haven't heard any stupid questions. Mr.Bill May 2020 #7
So, they shouldn't be so uppity is what you're saying, Jenna? mr_lebowski May 2020 #8
POC woman ACTUALLY asking stupid questions: OilemFirchen May 2020 #10
+ agree. her questions are always softballs that stroke trump's ego. nt iluvtennis May 2020 #17
Stupid Uppity Women! HotRod Deluxe May 2020 #11
What's POC? Polybius May 2020 #12
Person/people of colour. niyad May 2020 #14
Point of Contact? SomewhereInTheMiddle May 2020 #21
I thought it was politically correct. milestogo May 2020 #24
I await the day chicken little stops these embarrassing dodge sessions, due to only "nasty" ?s! Brainfodder May 2020 #13
Yet another self-loathing woman. Met her type many times as we have fought for women's rights. niyad May 2020 #15
The questions aren't stupid, they are valid/legitimate. It's stupid trump who doesn't want to answer iluvtennis May 2020 #16
Typical republican racist comment. LogicFirst May 2020 #18
American citizens object to POS Trump campaign officials making stupid racial slurs (nt) muriel_volestrangler May 2020 #19
Yeah, stop gas lighting. Rump and the repugs hate that. Mc Mike May 2020 #20
A silly thought ... SomewhereInTheMiddle May 2020 #22
Jenna Ellis is a good "Christian Woman." She is from Liberty University. Botany May 2020 #23
This is it, "..TWO IN ONE DAY..." Kushner and Jenna Ellis.. Let us not forget these 2 comments Stuart G May 2020 #25

Sloumeau

(2,657 posts)
1. What does the fact that they are lPeople of Color, liberal, or women have to do with any of this?
Tue May 12, 2020, 09:56 PM
May 2020

Is she saying that only people of color liberal women ask stupid questions, but other people, say, White people or male people, don't ask stupid questions? First of all, their questions have not been stupid. Second of all, to imply that their so-called "stupid" questions have anything to do with their skin color or their gender sounds both racist and sexist. I guess the Trump campaign figures "racism and sexism--it worked for us one--maybe it will work for us again!"

bucolic_frolic

(42,655 posts)
2. Ellis is the one who's gaslighting
Tue May 12, 2020, 10:01 PM
May 2020

This is a war for credibility and the truth. They're tying to silence liberals by posturing, lecturing, gaslighting. Resist!

PatrickforO

(14,514 posts)
4. Yeah, nothing worse to a white racist than 'POC liberal women!'
Tue May 12, 2020, 10:05 PM
May 2020

I'm sure his little hands get all twitchy at the very prospect!

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
5. I will be so glad when MATURE ADULTS take back the WH
Tue May 12, 2020, 10:15 PM
May 2020

and we can stop being insulted by these, smug, petulant, churlish, mouthy little morons, from Stephen Miller to Jared Kushner to this small-minded little toady bitch.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
6. "don't hold back now"...
Tue May 12, 2020, 10:18 PM
May 2020

do these people not know how to communicate, on an adult human level? Everything has to create insta-rage.

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
9. That is why his cult elected him.
Tue May 12, 2020, 10:39 PM
May 2020

They love him being a bully, shaking up DC, and being unconventional (they think he is like them...immature obnoxious, hateful, etc). They live for this mud slinging, crazy shit.

Talk about "classless", Mitch, look at your own party.

Mr.Bill

(24,103 posts)
7. I haven't heard any stupid questions.
Tue May 12, 2020, 10:32 PM
May 2020

Plenty of stupid answers, though.

"Why don't you ask China" comes to mind.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
8. So, they shouldn't be so uppity is what you're saying, Jenna?
Tue May 12, 2020, 10:36 PM
May 2020

Got too far from their raising?

Need to reckon their proper place and station?

That about the size of it, Jenna?

You know what?

You're A Fucking *****.

OilemFirchen

(7,143 posts)
10. POC woman ACTUALLY asking stupid questions:
Tue May 12, 2020, 10:40 PM
May 2020


THE pro-Trump One America News Network was barred from the White House briefing room after one of its reporters flouted social distancing rules by repeatedly failing to take her seat.

Chanel Rion was given the boot by the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) following the third day in a row of her attendance at the president's daily briefings.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11316636/oann-white-house-distancing-coronavirus-chanel-rion/

Chanel Rion is an American journalist and political caricaturist. She currently serves as the White House correspondent for One America News Network. Chanel was born "Chanel Nmi Dayn-Ryan" and changed her name after joining OAN.

Rion was born in Texas. Her mother is South Korean.

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

HotRod Deluxe

(84 posts)
11. Stupid Uppity Women!
Tue May 12, 2020, 10:43 PM
May 2020

Why aren't they asking, "Mister President, in your second term, what will you do to save the entire planet?.....SARCASM DELUXE!!!

21. Point of Contact?
Wed May 13, 2020, 08:34 AM
May 2020

Proof of Concept?
Point of Care?
Prisoner of Conscience?
Porsche Owners Club?
Pride of Cleveland?
Pain on Contact?
Piece of Crap?
Brackett Field, La Verne, California USA (POC)?

And many more ...

Brainfodder

(6,423 posts)
13. I await the day chicken little stops these embarrassing dodge sessions, due to only "nasty" ?s!
Tue May 12, 2020, 10:52 PM
May 2020

Death Count Donnie is a human species embarrassment.

niyad

(112,424 posts)
15. Yet another self-loathing woman. Met her type many times as we have fought for women's rights.
Tue May 12, 2020, 11:26 PM
May 2020

I did not think that I would still be seeing them, and all their hate-filled racist brethren and sistren in this third decade of the 21st century.

iluvtennis

(19,756 posts)
16. The questions aren't stupid, they are valid/legitimate. It's stupid trump who doesn't want to answer
Tue May 12, 2020, 11:31 PM
May 2020

valid questions as the answers would make his/his admin's response to the covid outbreak look very bad.

22. A silly thought ...
Wed May 13, 2020, 08:37 AM
May 2020

It appeals to my sense of the ridiculous (which has been beaten, battered, and strained beyond measure during the last three years) that CBS should send Jiang to Beijing to ask the Chinese government about Covid testing, claiming she was sent directly by the president using the video from the press briefing as proof of her bona fides. She could even use quotes from the president accusing the Chinese of developing and spreading the virus deliberately.

Not sure it would do any good, but if the White House complained CBS could claim they were just following the president’s directives. If the administration claimed the president was joking or being sarcastic Jiang could reply the Trump needs to learn the words have consequences and a president, more than anyone, needs to choose them with care.

A man can dream …

Botany

(70,281 posts)
23. Jenna Ellis is a good "Christian Woman." She is from Liberty University.
Wed May 13, 2020, 08:48 AM
May 2020

Her Book.
The Legal Basis for a Moral Constitution: A Guide for Christians to Understand America's Constitutional Crisis

I am sick to death of these Christian Taliban motherfuckers. BTW her JAY bees USS Gawd made those
people of color.

Stuart G

(38,359 posts)
25. This is it, "..TWO IN ONE DAY..." Kushner and Jenna Ellis.. Let us not forget these 2 comments
Wed May 13, 2020, 10:27 AM
May 2020

K and R ...Thank You for posting.....

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