Latino Trump Supporter Says Coming Out As Gay Easier Than Supporting Trump

A Latino Trump supporter in California claims it’s a lot more difficult to publicly support Donald Trump than to come out as gay.

Juan Hernandez, who is a member of the Log Cab Republicans, a gay conservative group, indicated that he was leaving the Trump rally in San Jose, California, on June 2, when a mob of violent Trump protesters attacked him, breaking his nose in the process. A friend was similarly set upon by the assailants, some of whom carried the Mexican flag and were burning the American flag.

“Riots were happening everywhere, and the protesters were picking out [Trump] supporters, and sucker-punching them and taking them down,” he told Megyn Kelly on The Kelly File. See clip below.

Even aggressive Trump foe Cher, the pop diva, condemned the San Jose perpetrators on her Twitter feed as thugs and cowards.

Apparently, Hernandez’s transgression, as the protesters saw it and for which he also suffered a mild concussion, was wearing a “Make American Great Again” hat as he walked to the parking garage after the event.

He suggested that the San Jose mayor (a Hillary Clinton supporter) and police chief told cops to stand down and not protect the Trump rallygoers, an allegation that has gained currency in the aftermath of the anti-Trump violence in that city.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8msMW1FEGJw

According to Debra Saunders of the San Francisco Chronicle, Juan Hernandez is not what the mainstream media perceives as the typical fan of the New York real estate mogul and presumptive GOP presidential nominee

“Hernandez does not fit the stereotype of a Trump supporter. He is gay (and a proud member of Log Cabin Republicans) with Mexican roots. He likes Trump’s aggressive way of talking, although he thinks the billionaire could be a bit more refined as, for example, when Trump criticized the ‘Mexican’ judge presiding over a lawsuit against Trump University. He knows Democrats who don’t like that he’s Republican. Now that he’s pro-Trump, Hernandez confided, ‘I have more people against me than I did when I came out as gay.'”

Hernandez told Megyn Kelly that he supports Trump’s plan to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexican border among other things, and in a Washington Post column, he explained that “Trump is the best candidate to fix our country’s many problems.”

According to the Culturintel online data-mining methodology, Latino support for Trump has supposedly increased to 37 percent versus just 41 percent for Democrat presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton. This data was compiled, however, before the cable networks started covering the Trump University judge controversy as it was another missing Malaysian airliner. Some internet outlets have raised questions about the validity of this polling information, however.

In his Washington Post op-ed, Hernandez further expounded on the violence at the San Jose rally while officials allegedly looked the other way.

“The whole thing made me angry. Here in Northern California, I feel like I’m a unicorn: I’m a gay Hispanic who’s a Republican. It was much harder to come out as a Trump supporter than it was to come out as gay — the minute you say you’re for Trump, everyone comes at you — but this has pushed me out of the closet about it completely. I should be able to vote for whom I want, and I shouldn’t have to deal with violence to go hear my candidate speak. If people really want to protest at rallies, they should do it peacefully.”

Separately, a self-described liberal Esquire writer recently visited the border region and what he found surprised him. “This was a constant theme all along the border. Anglos were more sympathetic to the border crossers and often spoke of compassion, but seven out of ten Hispanics wanted strict enforcement—even the ones who didn’t speak English.”

Discussing the article, an Esquire editor told MSNBC’s Morning Joe Scarborough that “They said, ‘Build the wall.’ They said two things: Hispanic, Anglo, Democratic, Republican, uncommitted, clueless, whatever — they said, ‘We want a wall, and yet we want it married to some compassion…’ Most of those Hispanics are first-generation, and they see it as unfair; they came over here the legal way…I think they feel, as one guy said, ”Let ’em get in line.'”

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