2012
2012 January
The Trump Organization filed a lawsuit against the Scottish government for approving the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre, calling it a “monstrous” blight on the coast. The case was lost in 2015, and Trump was ordered to pay the Scottish government’s legal costs.
2012-01-01 Rush Limbaugh mocked food programs for hungry American families, “Now it has to be the best”. Limbaugh called compassion for the poor a “part of a partisan agenda”.
2012 March
2012-03-01 Rush Limbaugh attacked women asking for birth control, “So, Ms. Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here’s the deal: If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. And I’ll tell you what it is. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch”.
2012 April
2012-04-01 Rick Santorum campaigned on anti-gay rhetoric and abortion misinformation. He claimed there was nothing in America before white colonizers arrived and that Native Americans had not contributed to American culture, marriage equality would lead to sibling marriages or man on dog marriages, and gay rights prevented God from blessing America.
https://www.harrywalker.com/speakers/rick-santorum
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/candidates/rick-santorum/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santorum
https://www.dignityusa.org/articles/dignityusa-responds-to-comments-by-senator-rick-santorum
EXCELLENT ARTICLE https://glaad.org/gap/rick-santorum/
EXCELLENT ARTICLE https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/cpac-2019-a-lot-like-a-trump-campaign-event
CNN CUT TIES WITH HIM https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-santorum-cnn-native-americans_n_60a92fa6e4b0313547978140
SANTORUM OPINION ON MLK JR https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/martin-luther-king-jr-according-to-the-right
SANTORUM ON GAY MARRIAGE https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/santorum-allowing-gay-marriage-like-changing-the-chemical-equation-for-water
SANTORUM ON NATIVE AMERICANS https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-santorum-native-american-culture_n_6086ddb7e4b05af50db9656b?or
2012 October
2012-10-18 Trump called the 2012 vote a “total sham”.
2012-10-30 Right-wing figures spread claims that Obama manipulated Hurricane Sandy to help his reelection; Trump tweeted several times that the storm benefited Obama politically.