(LifeSiteNews) — Former First Lady Melania Trump was paid nearly a quarter-million dollars to appear at a fundraiser hosted by the pro-LGBT Log Cabin Republicans in April.
According to multiple outlets, financial disclosures reveal Melania was given $237,500 for speaking at the group’s event, which happened to be taking place at her husband’s lavish Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida.
Melania Trump begins her speech last night to the Log Cabin (LBGT+) Republicans at Mar-a-Lago. pic.twitter.com/cB4EvSCVN5
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 21, 2024
The gathering, which cost $10,000 to attend, raised a reported $5 million, half of which was allegedly split between Trump’s re-election campaign and the GOP.
Last night we attended a sold out event at Mar a Lago raising well in excess of $1 million for @LogCabinGOP. Our great former and future First Lady Melania Trump was our featured guest of honor. Mrs. @MELANIATRUMP joined our dear friend former acting DNI/Ambassador @RicGrenell to… pic.twitter.com/6ZRUrLciRT
— Bill White (@BillWhiteUSA) April 21, 2024
This was not the first time Melania or her husband have promoted the Log Cabin Republicans.
In June, the former president phoned into one of their meetings in Las Vegas, prompting outcry from social conservatives. The group posted on its X account that so-called “LGBT conservatives are united behind you, Mr. President.”
🚨President Trump just called in to our Log Cabin Republicans 2024 planning session in Las Vegas!!!
LGBT conservatives are united behind you, Mr. President, and we’re ready to work to help you WIN in November! 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/PZgbBC4S7k
— Log Cabin Republicans (@LogCabinGOP) June 22, 2024
In July, Melania welcomed them to her private residence in Trump Tower.
Longtime Trump adviser Ric Grenell, a homosexual, announced on X that the event raked in $1.4 million. It is not apparent whether Melania was compensated for her appearance.
. @MELANIATRUMP opened her NYC Penthouse tonight to raise money for @LogCabinGOP.
It’s the first campaign event ever held at the Trump residence.
And we raised $1.4 million in one night.
Our goal is to get 50% of the gay vote for Donald Trump.
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) July 9, 2024
Donald Trump’s drastic shift to the left on social issues has infuriated many pro-life and pro-family conservatives, who have been one of his most loyal voting blocs.
In a recent op-ed for LifeSiteNews, D.C. Bureau Chief Doug Mainwaring argued that Trump’s repeated disavowals of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is a “stunning display of betrayal against social conservatives.”
While Trump has vowed to cut funding from schools that push gender ideology, pledged to keep males out of girls’ sports, and promised to ban sex change surgeries for minors without parental consent, he has catered to so-called “gay conservatives” on multiple occasions.
In 2016, before assuming office, Trump told 60 Minutes that he’s “fine” with homosexual “marriage.”
“It’s irrelevant because it was already settled. It’s law. It was settled in the Supreme Court. I mean, it’s done,” he told reporter Leslie Stahl.
This year, the GOP dropped its opposition to a federal abortion ban and homosexual “marriage” in its party platform, which won praise from the Log Cabin Republicans.
Our statement on the RNC’s approval of the historic 2024 platform:
“Log Cabin Republicans have been working for decades to help build a more inclusive GOP and update the platform’s outdated and out-of-step language… Today, that hard work has finally come to fruition.” pic.twitter.com/uFwwnsLk5m
— Log Cabin Republicans (@LogCabinGOP) July 15, 2024
In 2020, Grenell, who served as Trump’s ambassador to Germany and acting director of National Intelligence, called him “the most pro-gay president in American history.” To which Trump replied, “My great honor!!!”
Lastly, in 2022, Trump welcomed the Log Cabin Republicans for a party at Mar-a-Lago after Joe Biden signed a same-sex “marriage” bill into law in December of that year.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, described the event as a “large scandal” that indicates “the deep state has contaminated the entire political elite without distinction, even involving Donald Trump, who up until now seemed to be a source of hope for the future of the United States.”
Trump is set to square off against Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in a presidential debate set for September 10 on ABC News.