Matt Lauer Fears Trump Trying to ‘Fire Up’ CPAC With Transgender Policy

Kyle Drennen | February 23, 2017
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On Thursday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer accused Donald Trump of reversing an Obama administration school transgender policy just to appease conservative activists gathering at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference: “Or is the timing more tied to the fact that CPAC starts today? Conservatives around the country coming for a victory party and he wants to fire up that base.”

The discussion began with MSNBC host Steve Kornacki arguing the President’s decision “has a lot to do with the base that elected him. Donald Trump, remember, ran as the candidate of the protector of evangelical Christians.” The reporter went on to proclaim: “But more to the point, this has to do with his attorney general, Jeff Sessions....This is not an area Jeff Sessions wants to go in, and Donald Trump chose to go along with that.”

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