At the end of the presentation he recently delivered to a Tea Party gathering in Arkansas, Religious Right activist David Barton stuck around to take a few questions from the audience, during which he revealed that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has reached out to him and that he “helped do some things with them.”
When an audience member asked if either of the current presidential candidates had sought his counsel, Barton, a relentlessly dishonest right-wing pseudo-historian who has repeatedly stated that we will never find a cure for AIDS because the disease is God’s punishment for homosexuality, laughingly responded that Hillary Clinton’s campaign “definitely hasn’t.”
But “the other one definitely has reached out and we’ve helped do some things with them, putting some events together,” Barton said. “We’ll see how it goes. But they’re looking for input, looking for help.”
