By Kevin Hart, Publisher

It was like a scene out of Nazi Germany.

In 2005, Saudi police went door to door rounding up nearly 100 men. They were thrown into prison and savagely beaten with whips.

They hadn’t murdered anyone. They hadn’t stolen anything. Their only “crime” was being gay.

Saudi Arabia is one of the most oppressive countries on Earth for LGBT people.

But don’t expect Hillary Clinton to be calling out the Saudis on any of this anytime soon. Because the fact is, Saudi Arabia has been lining Hillary and Bill Clinton’s pockets for years.

And it’s time for LGBT voters to finally recognize Hillary Clinton for what she is — a raging hypocrite.

In the aftermath of Sunday’s massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Hillary Clinton had plenty to say to LGBT voters.

“You have millions of allies who will always have your back,” she said. “And I’m one of them.”

Listen, I’m not surprised she said it. She’ll say anything to get elected.

If Hillary Clinton thought pirates would decide the 2016 race, she’d start showing up at rallies with an eye patch and parrot.

But I am surprised that anyone — and I mean anyone — in the LGBT community is still buying her bluster.

There has never been an LGBT citizen in the history of America who slept better or safer because of Hillary Clinton. As a Senator, she didn’t sponsor any meaningful legislation to advance LGBT causes, despite having plenty of time and opportunity to do so.

As I’ve told you before, she only sponsored three bills that ever became law — and they all involved naming various New York landmarks.

But even worse, Hillary Clinton has made a career out of accepting money from countries that have practically made a sport out of harassing and persecuting gay people.

As the New York Post pointed out in a recent editorial, the Clintons have raked in as much as $35 million from Saudi Arabia through the Clinton Foundation and Bill Clinton’s presidential library.

They’ve accepted millions more from countries like Qatar and Kuwait. In Qatar, being gay is a crime that carries serious jail time — and years ago, a visiting American citizen was beaten and sentenced to prison for being a homosexual.

In Kuwait, being gay or cross-dressing is punished criminally under national “debauchery laws.”

This is just another case of Hypocrite Hillary trying to have her cake and eat it, too. She claims to defend LGBT people while eagerly taking cash from their sworn enemies.

Of course, Clinton will claim that the money she’s accepted from Middle Eastern nations has been used for humanitarian causes and has nothing to do with LGBT issues.

But that’s the kind of excuse a first-grader would use. Politicians regularly reject money from countries and causes that they find objectionable and don’t want to be associated with.

Clinton could have taken a similar stand — but she chose not to.

Again, it boggles the mind that the LGBT community believes it has a friend and champion in Clinton, even though she’s never offered them anything but campaign sound bites.

Perhaps there’s a bit of calculus going on here, with LGBT voters believing Clinton is a safer bet than her opponent, Donald Trump.

But I’d argue that there is nothing that Trump has done that is as brazenly hypocritical as pretending to support LGBT citizens, while taking money from nations that consider them less than human.

As far as LGBT voters are concerned, Hillary Clinton’s words shouldn’t matter nearly as much as her actions.

And her actions to date have been a hard, insulting slap in the face.



— Kevin Hart is Publisher of the The Horn News.