White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders admitted Donald Trump is “not sure” of Chechnya’s aim to purge the region of LGBTQ people.
As we’ve reported, at least 100 gay men have been detained, and some have been tortured and even killed.
Related: Chechnya authorities to parents: “Kill your gay sons or we will”
Huckabee Sanders was asked by The Washington Blade‘s Chris Johnson why Trump hasn’t mentioned the situation in Chechnya, and why there was no mention of the crisis in a statement about Trump’s meeting with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov.
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She responded: “I’m sorry, could you speak up a little bit?”
Johnson asks: “Is the reason why it wasn’t included in the readout is because President is not informed about reports of anti-gay violence in Chechnya?”
Related: Meet Chechnya President Ramzan Kadyrov, killer of gay men who loves kittens
“Ah–uh, look, I mean a lot of times there are parts of the conversation that aren’t specifically included in a readout,” Huckabee Sanders responded.
“Umm, but, I’m not aware, I have not had that conversation. So I do not know, I was not part of that meeting. So I cannot speak to every detail and I would have to refer you to the readout on the specifics of what I know was discussed.”
Related: Horrifying reports of gay men being rounded up and sent to concentration camps in Chechnya
Asked point-blank if Trump had been briefed on the purge, she answered:
“That is something I would have to get back to you on. I am not one hundred present sure.”
Listen to her response below:
whatevz
that’s because stupid conservatives call them ‘Holocaust centers’
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
I take it by the unfortunate looks of things that this sow is related to to the same hog clan of Mike Huckabee?
1EqualityUSA
Is she the sister of the dog torturer?
ChrisK
She reminds me of the Russian Foreign Minister. interview “I don’t know such things. I’m just the Foreign Minister”.
Bob LaBlah
Once again I am taken back to the end of the second debate last October when retired CBS newsman Bob Scheifer asked “how have we come to this?” This poor white trash hillbilly (Huckabee) is just as disgusting in her rhetoric as that little sluttish dressed daughter of John McCain’s (Megan McCain over on Fox’s Outnumbered). Its now a competition between those two (and Kelly Anne Conway) as to which one will bring white women in America down to lowest the level of slutdom to satisfy Trump. I thought Megan hit an all time low when she questioned her father’s public statement as to whether there needed to be an investigation into the Russian election and whether it would have an effect on the integrity of democracy/voting system here in the U.S. of A.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T13c9GR_BLE
Neonegro
Why don’t you radical gays ask the party you support to talk to its muslim friends.
Call Clinton, Warren, Schummer and Madona, Barbara Streisand and other entertainers, and the late night talk show hosts.
Trump is busy pleasing his supporters as he should.
Bob LaBlah
“Trump is busy pleasing his supporters as he should.”
By chance would those “supporters” be the wealthy jews of Wall Street?
1EqualityUSA
And Neo hits a pop fly, canned corn for LaBlah, aaannnd, it’s over. Top of the eighth…
WEBOne
His regime has denied gay men fleeing the violence directed against them in Chechnya asylum (or even temporary visas) in the US… You can’t tell me he doesn’t know .