‘Sheâ€™s Been Terrible to Gay People for the Longest Time’ Sarandon Says of Hillary Clinton

During the 2016 presidential campaign actress Susan Sarandon was an avid Bernie Sanders supporter. When Hillary Clinton won the Democratic nomination Sarandon refused to support her, instead voting for Green Party candidate Jill Stein (who some on social media believe was knowingly or not part of Russia’s efforts to disrupt the U.S. election.)

REMINDER a picture of treason in action, Jill Stein seated with Mike Flynn and Vlad Putin….Stein is now a part of russiagate investigation pic.twitter.com/2MPeCMLy6b â€” mark john junor (@markjunor3) July 20, 2017

Sarandon didn’t just vote for Jill Stein, she actively worked against Hillary Clinton, posting tweets attacking the Democratic nominee as late in the game as October 4.

Many believe those who voted for anyone but Clinton are, at least in part, responsible for putting Trump in the White House. It is true that in many states votes for third party candidates, including Stein and Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson, were more than enough to have given Clinton the win.

FiveThirtyEight’s Dave Wasserman makes it clear: in the three states in which Trump won the Electoral College vote where he was not expected to win â€“ handing him the presidency â€“Â Stein’s votes, had they gone to Clinton, would have given Hillary the White House. For example, Trump won Michigan byÂ 10,704 votes, andÂ 51,463 people voted forÂ Stein.

Jill Stein is now officially the Ralph Nader of 2016. Stein votes/Trump margin:

MI: 51,463/10,704

PA: 49,678/46,765

WI: 31,006/22,177 â€” Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) December 1, 2016

Regardless, suffice it to say Sarandon, who has 570,000 followers on Twitter, is not sorry for supporting Stein, even though for her aÂ Donald Trump presidency is far less destructive than it is for many minorities, LGBT people, and women overall. Sarandon has the wealth and privilege to protect herself from most of Trump’s policies and actions. Most others do not.

The Guardian‘sÂ Emma Brockes interviewed Sarandon. In an article published Sunday, she asks, “Does she have any sympathy with the critique that casting a protest vote is the luxury of those insulated from the effects of a Trump presidency?”

â€œIt wasnâ€™t a protest vote. Following Bernie wasnâ€™t a protest.â€ Voting for Jill Stein was, by any definition, a protest vote. â€œWell, I knew that New York was going to go [for Hillary]. It was probably the easiest place to vote for Stein. Bringing attention to working-class issues is not a luxury. People are really hurting; thatâ€™s how this guy got in. What we should be discussing is not the election, but how we got to the point where Trump was the answer.â€ (We should also, she says, inching towards the space where the extreme right meets the left, be discussing how â€œyou canâ€™t judge by the mainstream media whatâ€™s going on in the country. How did we lose all our journalists and media?â€)

And in the aftermath of the 2016 election, Brockes wanted to know if Sarandon “lost friends over all this.”Â

â€œNo. My friends have a right to their opinions. Itâ€™s disappointing but thatâ€™s their business. Itâ€™s like in the lead-up to Vietnam, and then later they say: â€˜You were right.â€™ Or strangely, some of my gay friends were like: â€˜Oh, I just feel bad for [Clinton]. And I said: â€˜Sheâ€™s not authentic. Sheâ€™s been terrible to gay people for the longest time. Sheâ€™s an opportunist.â€™ And then Iâ€™m like: â€˜OK, letâ€™s not talk about it any more.â€™â€

Apparently, Sarandon has decided to not fightÂ â€“ but she continues to throw Clinton under the bus, attacking her as “terrible” to LGBT people, when the evidence says otherwise.

OUT magazine’sÂ Rose Dommu sums up Sarandon’s remarks about her support of Jill Stein and her “audacity” of bringing “the gays into it” by saying simply, “Girl, please.”

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