Attacks on Evan McMullin Escalate

[corbe]

Attacks on Evan McMullin Escalate

By David Thornton  |  November 3, 2016, 08:18am  |  @captainkudzu

http://theresurgent.com/attacks-on-evan-mcmullin-escalate/

After Evan McMullin’s sudden surge in Utah, the Trump campaign is taking him seriously and attacks are mounting. The situation in the deep red state was serious enough that Mike Pence made a late-in-the-campaign visit to Beehive State in an attempt to shore up hemorrhaging support in the wake of three disastrous debates and Trump’s sexual harassment scandal.

The first attack came from Lou Dobbs who tweeted that McMullin was “nothing but a Globalist, Romney and Mormon Mafia Tool.” McMullin responded on CNN a few days later saying, “A hallmark of Donald Trump’s campaign has been to attack people based on their race and religion and all of this and so it’s not a surprise to me at all.” McMullin supporters on Twitter started a tweetstorm of jokes about the bizarre insult.

The attacks continued over the weekend when Trump lashed out at McMullin and Bill Kristol in an interview on Fox News. “I love the people of Utah. I have great relationships in Utah,” Trump said. “But you have a guy named Bill Kristol who’s called it wrong for two years. He’s a loser. He’s called me wrong. He’s called everything wrong. He’s called the wars wrong. Everything he does is wrong. He gets his puppet to go and run in Utah.”

Trump continued, “The guy [McMullin] takes votes away from me. You know, we’re going to win Utah. But he takes votes away from me, this man who I never heard of….   Now, if for some reason we lose Utah that could have a very devastating impact on the overall.” Utah has six electoral votes.

McMullin responded in Trumpian fashion: With a tweet. The independent candidate posted, “@realDonaldTrump, Yes you’ve never heard of me because while you were harassing women at beauty pageants, I was fighting terrorists abroad.” McMullin is a 10-year veteran of the CIA where he served as a clandestine agent in the Middle East. Donald Trump received student and medical deferments that exempted him from the draft, but told Howard Stern that not contracting a sexually transmitted disease was his “personal Vietnam” and made him feel like a “great and very brave soldier.”

McMullin added another tweet attacking Trump on substance. “@realDonaldTrump, you’re an authoritarian, life-long liberal who disrespects life, liberty, & equality. We can’t trust you on justices.” The Trump campaign did not respond to the tweet.

Then things got really nasty. Over Halloween weekend, McMullin was the target of robocalls in the new battleground state of Utah. Salt Lake City’s KUTV describes the call by William Johnson, a self-described “white nationalist” which attacks McMullin’s mother, a lesbian who is married to another woman, and alleges that McMullin, who is single, is a “closeted homosexual.”

Spoiler alert: Evan McMullin is not gay. Louise Mensch of Heat Street wrote of her earlier conversation with McMullin prior to an August interview. McMullin told her that “his greatest aspiration is to be a husband and a father.” Part of the reason that he left the CIA was his desire to one day be married and have a family, something that would be difficult for a CIA operative.

As to his mother, McMullin talked about her in an interview with the Salt Lake Tribune on Oct. 26. “I believe in the sanctity of traditional marriage. It is an important part of my faith,” McMullin said. “My mother has a different view. That is OK. I love her very much.”

McMullin told CNN that the robocall was not a surprise. “This is exactly the narrative, the approach the Donald Trump campaign has had. So it didn’t even surprise when I heard news of the robocall, I just thought of course this is more of the same.”



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[corbe]

  Trying to win back some Cred from the Evan people here, eh?

[Oceander]

Only means that McMullin is becoming a serious candidate.

[GAJohnnie]

The only thing that is going to be dead after Nov 8th is the Political/Media careers of the #Never Trumpsters.

Trump wins, you are impotent jokes who no one on the Right will ever take seriously on anything again.

Trump lose. You are personally responsible for helping elect the most corrupt lawless President in US History. The Left will still hate you politics and you will be anathema to everyone on the Right. You will be irrelevant and politically impotent.

The only route left will be to form a clown third party that will spasmodically thrash around for a few years and then die from terminal poltical irrelevancy.

A well deserved sad and sorry end to collection of petulant children who could not put their own egos aside once their candidate lost the Primary.

[corbe]

The only thing that is going to be dead after Nov 8th is the Political/Media careers of the #Never Trumpsters.

Trump wins, you are impotent jokes who no one on the Right will ever take seriously on anything again.

Trump lose. You are personally responsible for helping elect the most corrupt lawless President in US History. The Left will still hate you politics and you will be anathema to everyone on the Right. You will be irrelevant and politically impotent.

The only route left will be to form a clown third party that will spasmodically thrash around for a few years and then die from terminal poltical irrelevancy.

A well deserved sad and sorry end to collection of petulant children who could not put their own egos aside once their candidate lost the Primary.

  @GAJohnnie


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6z_NfTe6SI

[GAJohnnie]

Here is the problem for the Status Quo Ante crowd of #Never Trumpers and Republicans for Hillary.

Suppose you manage to elect Hillary.

The issues and the problems that created the 10s of millions of Trump/Sanders voters are not going to go away. They are still going to be festering out there and will be magnified by the rabid corruption and lawlessness of a Clinton Presidency.

So you may clamp the lid on the boiling pot this time, it will only result in a larger, more devastating political explosion down the road.

It only gets worse for you all going forward, there is no up side for you ever in your current political position. You have painted yourselves into a lose-lose position.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Can we please stop calling each other evil?

[TomSea]

He's Romney's puppet and like Glenn Beck, Romney is showing he's not pro-life at all; or maybe it should not have come to this ever.

I'd think Trump can take Utah, the press wants us to think otherwise.

[Oceander]

Here is the problem for the Status Quo Ante crowd of #Never Trumpers and Republicans for Hillary.

Suppose you manage to elect Hillary.

The issues and the problems that created the 10s of millions of Trump/Sanders voters are not going to go away. They are still going to be festering out there and will be magnified by the rabid corruption and lawlessness of a Clinton Presidency.

So you may clamp the lid on the boiling pot this time, it will only result in a larger, more devastating political explosion down the road.

It only gets worse for you all going forward, there is no up side for you ever in your current political position. You have painted yourselves into a lose-lose position.

We didn't elect Clinton.  We're not the ones who nominated the only person who couldn't beat her.  You did and thus the blame for Clinton lies squarely on your shoulders.

[Oceander]

It's interesting how violent the bleep attacks on #Nevertrumps are becoming.  You'd almost think we mattered, if they hadn't been crowing all along about how irrelevant we supposedly are. 

They're getting more and more desperate as the gravity of what they've done becomes apparent. 

[Jazzhead]

Can we please stop calling each other evil?

I've deleted my post, WTF.   My apologies to you and GAJohnnie. 

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

I've deleted my post, WTF.   My apologies to you and GAJohnnie.

No problem. So sick of the hyperbole in conservative circles. It's like we're a bunch of mental midgets or something.

[Jazzhead]

You have painted yourselves into a lose-lose position.

But I'll be able to sleep at night. 

I'm a conservative who wants my party back.  I'll suffer four years of Clinton (or such shorter period of time 'til it takes to impeach her) in order to repudiate the racialists who've hijacked the GOP.   

[Suppressed]

I just voted absentee for Evan McMullin.

Downballot, all GOP.

[CSM]

The only thing that is going to be dead after Nov 8th is the Political/Media careers of the #Never Trumpsters.

Trump wins, you are impotent jokes who no one on the Right will ever take seriously on anything again.

Trump lose. You are personally responsible for helping elect the most corrupt lawless President in US History. The Left will still hate you politics and you will be anathema to everyone on the Right. You will be irrelevant and politically impotent.

The only route left will be to form a clown third party that will spasmodically thrash around for a few years and then die from terminal poltical irrelevancy.

A well deserved sad and sorry end to collection of petulant children who could not put their own egos aside once their candidate lost the Primary.

Posts such as this only harden my resolve to not cave at the last minute.  Thank you for the help in sticking with my Castle vote.

[GAJohnnie]

No surprise Eric "where arrogance meets incompetence" Erickson doesn't allow anyone to respond to his superficial, shallow analysis. Amazing that anyone ever took this clown seriously enough to give him a radio show and a website.

Like Beck, Erickson is heading for bankruptcy and irrelevancy. As his impotence as AstroTurf for the GOP E becomes clearer and clearer his access and funding will be cut off.

[Longmire]

Only means that McMullin is becoming a serious candidate.

[GAJohnnie]

Posts such as this only harden my resolve to not cave at the last minute.  Thank you for the help in sticking with my Castle vote.

Post such as this only prove the point about the true motivations for you vote. You care nothing about facts, and consequences, but are only interested in venting you childish petulance because you did not get your way in the Primary.

Examine carefully your motivations here. You will find they have nothing to do with morality, integrity or ethics. No matter how hard you try to lie to yourself, and others, God still know what truly moves you.

Clinton or Trump will be President. You cannot look at Clinton and make a moral case for her. By your actions, you are actively siding with evil out of nothing more then ego and petulance.

[Hoodat]

If Trump keeps this up, McMullin could actually win Utah.

[Hoodat]

Post such as this only prove the point about the true motivations for you vote.

Posts such as this only prove that you know how to copy and paste.

You cannot look at Clinton and make a moral case for her.

Nor can you make a moral case for Trump.  And the mere fact that you would even bring it up shows your utter lack of understanding when it comes to morality.

By your actions, you are actively siding with evil out of nothing more then ego and petulance.

By your posts, you are showing that you have multiple accounts on this forum.

[TomSea]

Don't worry about what Hoodat says, he/she comes out of nowhere to fire off personal attacks at people.

If this type is happy with open borders, more terrorists in the USA, gun control and more abortion, not much can be done.

[sinkspur]

Post such as this only prove the point about the true motivations for you vote. You care nothing about facts, and consequences, but are only interested in venting you childish petulance because you did not get your way in the Primary.

Examine carefully your motivations here. You will find they have nothing to do with morality, integrity or ethics. No matter how hard you try to lie to yourself, and others, God still know what truly moves you.

Clinton or Trump will be President. You cannot look at Clinton and make a moral case for her. By your actions, you are actively siding with evil out of nothing more then ego and petulance.

Can't make a moral case for Trump either.   So I voted for McMullin. 

[Longmire]

It's interesting how violent the bleep attacks on #Nevertrumps are becoming.  You'd almost think we mattered, if they hadn't been crowing all along about how irrelevant we supposedly are. 

They're getting more and more desperate as the gravity of what they've done becomes apparent.

 

[CSM]

Post such as this only prove the point about the true motivations for you vote. You care nothing about facts, and consequences, but are only interested in venting you childish petulance because you did not get your way in the Primary.

Examine carefully your motivations here. You will find they have nothing to do with morality, integrity or ethics. No matter how hard you try to lie to yourself, and others, God still know what truly moves you.

Clinton or Trump will be President. You cannot look at Clinton and make a moral case for her. By your actions, you are actively siding with evil out of nothing more then ego and petulance.

The only requirement that I ever had for Trump was for him to EARN my vote.  The only request I have ever made of his supporters is to sell him to me.  Convince me to vote FOR him and to do so without mentioning Hillary, Beck or Cruz.  I don't think you are capable of making such a case.

I won't vote for a lifelong Democrat that still thinks the theft of private property is a beautiful thing, is a 9-11 truther, wealth tax supporting, Planned Parenthood loving, single payer health care dreamer, who attacks Conservatism with all his might.  And no, I won't vote for his main opponent for the VERY SAME reasons.

Of course, the best thing for the country would be that I am proved to be completely wrong.  I'd be more than happy to admit it, if it were to happen.  The issue is that it won't and I doubt you would be so affable.

[Hoodat]

Don't worry about what Hoodat says, he/she comes out of nowhere to fire off personal attacks at people.

If this type is happy with open borders, more terrorists in the USA, gun control and more abortion, not much can be done.

I am not at all happy with those things.  Which is why I cannot support a candidate who supports touchback amnesty, taxpayer subsidies for Planned Parenthood, and assault weapons bans.  And obviously you can.