2. When the Astronaut Was Supposed to Endorse Trump But Didn’t
No, that wasn’t Mary Lou Retton on the GOP stage last night. That was NASA astronaut Eileen Collins, whose prepared remarks were supposed to end this way:
We need leadership that will challenge every American to ask, “What’s next?” We need leadership that will make America’s space program first again. We need leadership that will make America first again. That leader is Donald Trump.
A Business Insider reporter pointed out that she left off those last five words:
There was a Donald Trump endorsement of the prepared text of Eileen Collins’ prepared text, but she didn’t actually say it out loud.
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) July 21, 2016
No word on whether the omission was purposeful.
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