Buttigieg Slams Trump: 'I've Never Sent Hush Money to a Porn Star'

Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg called out Donald Trump's and Rush Limbaugh's hypocrisy around family values during the CNN Town Hall Tuesday in Nevada. Buttigieg's remarks came in response to Trump's Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree Limbaugh making homophobic remarks about the gay former South Bend, Ind., mayor, saying that Trump would "have fun" if a gay man were the candidate.

Having already spoken about his faith as an Episcopalian and whether or not Republicans get to dictate what faith is or should look like at the Town Hall, Buttiegieg was asked, "Do you believe President Trump when he says he wouldn't have a problem supporting a gay candidate?"

"Not if he's sending out his supporters to talk in this way," Buttigieg said, referring to Limbaugh, who last week made homophobic remarks about Buttigieg publicly kissing his husband, Chasten Buttigieg

"The idea of the likes of Rush Limbaugh or Donald Trump lecturing anybody on family values," Buttigieg began. "I'm sorry, but one thing about my marriage is it's never involved me having to send hush money to a porn star after cheating on my spouse. So they want to debate family values, let's debate family values, I'm ready."

Buttigieg appeared to be referring to Trump's past with adult film star Stormy Daniels, who was paid money for her silence regarding an alleged affair.

Limbaugh, with his history of homophobia, transphobia, and various other forms of hate, said that Democrats are "looking at Mayor Pete, 37-year-old gay guy, [former] mayor of South Bend, loves to kiss his husband on the debate stage. And they're saying, 'OK, how's this going to look, 37-year-old gay guy kissing his husband onstage next to Mr. Man Donald Trump? What's going to happen there?' And they got to be looking at that, and they've got to be saying, that despite all the great progress and despite all the great wokeness and despite all the great ground that's been covered, America's still not ready."

Trump, who has said he would support a gay candidate, also said ahead of the 2016 election that he would be better for LGBTQ people than Hillary Clinton, then allegedly called Limbaugh to instruct him not to apologize for the remarks about Buttigieg.

Limbaugh told listeners of his nationally-syndicated radio show last week that Trump called him personally to say, "'Rush, I just got to tell you something. Never apologize, don't ever -- ' and I said, 'For what?'"

The radio show host then claimed he had no idea there was outrage over his remarks.

Watch Buttigieg below.