Caitlyn Jenner: ‘Have I Gotten Hammered’ For Being a Republican

Mark Judge | May 12, 2017
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(Jenner Photo Via Twitter)

Caitlyn Jenner is a Republican who believes in the Constitution and is for lower taxes.

Jenner revealed this in a recent conversation with Patt Morrison from the Los Angeles Times

Jenner, who changed from being athlete and celebrity Bruce Jenner to calling himself female, is promoting a new memoir, “The Secrets of My Life.”

An excerpt from the interview:

When you did your book tour, you were in Washington, D.C. I assume at the top of your agenda there was transgender issues. There is still the North Carolina bathroom issue. There are still questions about prosecuting attacks on transgender people as hate crimes.

Boy, have I gotten hammered over the last two years for being a Republican. I get it. The Republicans do not do as good a job when it comes to LGBT issues. I know that. And the Democrats do.

But from my standpoint, I want our country to do well, and the Republican party is closer to things like our Constitution — although I have had problems with them over the last 20 years. But limited government, I’m all for that. Lower taxes; let the people go — they’ll fix everything, I guarantee you.

I like being on the inside because I am outwardly Republican. I have sat down with 15 evangelical Christian conservative senators and Republicans at private dinners in Washington. Probably everybody in that room had never met anybody who was trans. And I want them to get to know me. I want them to know I’m not crazy; I’m not nuts. We talked for three hours about faith, about politics, about the issues that are out there for our community.

That’s the only way you can slowly change minds. I would rather convince the Republican party to do better with all LGBT issues than try to convince the Democrats to do lower taxes, less regulation and let the people go.

But my loyalty was not with Donald Trump, not with the Republicans. It’s with my community.

Did you see my Instagram post that I put out? We had the White House in the background, and I hold up my book and I said, “President Trump, I’m in Washington, D.C. I would love for you to read my book. You might learn something. And by the way, when you’re done with it, could you give it to [Atty. Gen.] Jeff Sessions?”

 

Donald Trump once invited you to play golf. I think you could take him up on that offer, and maybe beat him by five or six strokes.

Not now, not now. He doesn’t want to get beat by 67-year-old trans woman.

I did go back to the inauguration, and the one person I wanted to talk to was Mike Pence. He has passed some very anti-LGBT legislation when he was governor — and I mean, really bad stuff.

I was at a cocktail party and there he was, and they brought me over and I got introduced to him and I said, “I’m a Christian, I’m a Republican, conservative thoughts, but I’m also trans. I would love to have that conversation with you.” And he looked at me, and he said, “You know what? I would love to do that.”

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