Trump’s bullet-wearing spokesperson has a criminal past
Via DailyKos it seems that Trump’s spokes-person is has the same high moral standards that Mr Trump has.
Katrina Pierson, the national spokeswoman for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, collected at least $11,000 in unemployment benefits while she was still working.
Pierson received these benefits from the Texas Workforce Commission between January 2012 and November 2013. At the same time she received this government money, Pierson was working as a consultant for Ted Cruz’s campaign for the U.S. Senate.
Receiving unemployment benefits while she was still working would seem to go against the grain of the message being pushed by Trump and the Republican Party, who have often been quick to blame minorities and immigrants for being on the government dole, supposedly taking up resources that should be going to white Americans (in reality, whites are the most likely to receive welfare benefits).
The spokeswoman, who recently made news in a CNN appearance where she wore a necklace made out of bullets and promised to wear one stylized like fetuses after gun violence prevention advocates called her out, also had an arrest for shoplifting. She stole clothing from a JC Penney store in Plano, Texas. She had her child with her.
I would like to say I’m shocked, but I probably ought not to start the new year by lying.
The whole of the Republican nomination process seems to just be filled with grifters and chancers who are far more concerned with generating donations and then slicing off as big a share as they can, rather than actually trying to nominate a good candidate for the Presidential election.