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malaise

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1. They are merely following their dear leader
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 07:16 AM
Sep 14
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/09/trump-domestic-violence

Trump’s view of the prerogatives of husbands towards their wives mirror his own sense of his entitlements as president towards his abused country

Speaking at a Christian museum on Monday, Donald Trump claimed, falsely, that his deployment of national guard troops to invade the nation’s capital has eliminated crime in Washington. He complained, however, that domestic violence was being counted in the crime statistics, which he claimed meant that the influence of his policy was not being seen as significant enough. “They said, ‘Crime’s down 87%,’” the president claimed, not explaining who “they” were. “I said, no, no, no. It’s more than 87%, virtually nothing. And much lesser things, things that take place in the home they call crime. You know, they’ll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime. See? So now I can’t claim 100%, but we are. We are a safe city.”





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