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NRA Gives Trump a Warm Welcome! Media not so Much

May 5, 2018 by Dave Workman 4 Comments

The 147th annual meetings and exhibits of the National Rifle Association opened with a roar featuring appearances of both President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. However, some in the media seemed willing to reinforce the notion of bias.

Columns posted by a writer from Esquire and a commentator from CNN were not so kind to the president, and Politifact did a “fact check” on the president’s speech.

There was a large contingent of press in the room Friday when Trump and Pence delivered remarks to a roaring crowd of gun rights activists. It was clear that the president and vice president were on friendly ground, but the mainstream media…not so much.

The audience responded with applause when Pence asserted that the national media does not tell “the whole story” about gun rights and gun owners. He called on the press to change that.

“President Donald Trump and I will always stand for the right to keep and bear arms,” Pence promised.

He called the NRA an organization “forged in freedom.” Pence added a moment later, “President Trump and I are here to say ‘thank you.’”

When Trump took the stage, the audience was ready. They were not disappointed.

The president took swipes at Congressional Democrats for “slow walking” nominations to the federal courts.

“We need federal judges who will interpret the Constitution as written,” Trump observed.

This was after he told the crowd that it has been conservatives who have protected the Second Amendment on Capitol Hill.

“Democrats in Congress want to disarm law-abiding Americans at the same time they are letting violent criminals loose,” he said.

As is often the case with a Trump speech, he occasionally veered into different subjects including the economy, but while he was on message, NRA members were tuned in. At one point, the president observed that, “We will never give up our freedom. We will live free and we will die free.”

He also reiterated his support for arming qualified schoolteachers.

Several news reports reminded readers that the NRA “spent about $30 million” to support Trump’s candidacy in 2016. Gun rights activists have noted that the alternative would have been a Hillary Clinton presidency.

Had that been the outcome 15 months ago, it’s a safe bet no president would be appearing before an enthusiastic NRA audience in Dallas, or anywhere else.

The convention continues through the weekend. The annual NRA members’ meeting is Saturday morning, and there are workshops and seminars on the schedule, plus an exhibit hall filled with guns and gear, through which the president’s son, Donald, Jr., strolled Friday with several Secret Service agents.


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Dave Workman is the Senior Editor at the Liberty Park Press.

Filed Under: News, Politics Tagged With: NRA, Trump

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  1. Susan says

    May 5, 2018 at 4:53 pm

    I really admire President Trump-he is a true supporter of the American Constitution-unlike a lot of Senators and Congressmen.

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  2. Wondering1 says

    May 5, 2018 at 7:05 pm

    Does anyone know where that $30 M came from, I know that did not contribute as much as I would have liked. But the money came from the members not some bank vault as though the NRA is wealthy on its own. I believe it was money well spent!

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  3. Docduracoat says

    May 7, 2018 at 10:18 am

    I like that President Trump and vice President Pence are saying the right things
    Florida Governor Scott said the exact same words last year when he addressed the NRA convention
    Then he went ahead and signed the bump stock ban and to block gun sales to anyone under 21 in Florida
    President Trump has also asked the department of justice to write a regulation banning bump stocks
    That regulation will go into effect very soon
    President Obama was unable to pass any gun control regulation in eight years
    Yet in less than one year President Trump has given us a bump stock ban and is encouraging gun violence restraining orders
    In Florida we did not trade bump stock bans for arming our teachers and at the federal level we did not trade bump stock bands for national concealed carry
    So while the words sound good, we need to hold their feet to the fire and not let them stab of us in the back

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  4. David Leach says

    May 14, 2018 at 5:37 pm

    I never thought firearms would be the lynch-pin of my vote. Then I realized I live in opiod crime capitol of America. When the bodies began to stack up around the neighborhood I found myself taking all this a lot more seriously.

    Reply

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