An Iowa parent accused Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina of using his four-year-old son as a prop Wednesday at a Des Moines anti-abortion rally.
Chris Beck told The Guardian that his son was on a field trip at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden when Fiorina directed him and more than a dozen other young children in front of a huge banner with a picture of a fetus for her speech about harvesting organs from aborted babies.
Beck’s son, Chatham Beck, is pictured above wearing in the dark grey shirt directly in front of Fiorina. Beck told The Guardian that he first heard about Fiorina’s rally from his son’s childcare provider.
“The kids went there to see the plants,” Beck told The Guardian. “She ambushed my son’s field trip.”
“I would not want my four-year-old going to that forum,” he added. “He can’t fully comprehend that stuff. He likes dinosaurs, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Transformers.”
Fiorina’s campaign said in an emailed statement to the newspaper that it was “happy” to have the children attend.
“We were happy that these children chose to come to Carly’s event with their adult supervisor,” the statement read, according to the newspaper.
Trust me - there is nothing a four year old likes better than a political photo op. Well, aside from everything else in the f’ing world.
Fiorina is an evil asshole, and after she gets less than 1% in Iowa, she will thankfully be dropping out, never to be heard from again.
Part of me would love to see that CENSORED get the GOP nomination so Hillary could smack her down in the debates just like Barbara Boxer did to her in 2010!
What a C-Word! Seriously, though, if my child was in that pic, I’d have my lawyer contact Fiorina’s campaign and inform them they are not to use the pic for ANYTHING. And, if she did end up doing something with the pic of my child, I’d drag her ass into court.
Edit to add: And, if she claimed “why, the little darlings wanted to be there with me,” I remind her that underage children cannot consent. Bitch.
She uses people. She takes advantage of them. It’s the take home message from that stunt.