The daughter of my friend's s/o was the victim in a murder/suicide yesterday
Her mate killed her as she tried to leave him. Years ago I had an employee who killed his wife then himself. Growing up I saw domestic violence firsthand. Black eyes hidden behind dark sunglasses, broken arms … The worst part is that it often happens in front of and sometimes directly to innocent children who are often orphaned or otherwise traumatized sometimes for life. It really should be called domestic terrorism.
Recently Trump downplayed domestic violence as a “lesser“ crime to fluff up the success rate of his DC invasion with troops and feds.
He complained 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.”
The Trump administration has moved to drastically cut federal grants to domestic violence non-profits, which rely heavily on the federal government for funding. The administration has further sought to freeze funding to domestic violence charities that serve trans women victims and participate in diversity, equity and inclusion programming, severely hampering the work of groups that seek to serve marginalized victims from LGBTQ+ or racial minority populations, or to frame domestic violence as a gender justice issue. The administration has also moved to condition domestic violence funding on charities’ willingness to hand over abused women to Ice, a move that would severely limit the ability of undocumented victims to seek help.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/09/trump-domestic-violence
We know Trump’s also a domestic abuser. Most weak men are. (The phenomenon must be rampant in MAGA land.) I hope his efforts to downplay this scourge are reversed asap.
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First of all, I'm so sorry for what happened to your friend's daughter. What a horrible thing to happen to any extended family. Of course their children will be traumatized for life over this, and that is doubly horrible.
But the simple fact is that ANY municipal police force in any large city - not just Washington DC - cringes over 911 calls involving domestic violence. The police hate to cover those types of calls, even though it's their job, and lives depend on quick action.
It's 99.9% the guy (husband/boyfriend/whatever) who is threatening the woman/wife/girlfriend and the chances are high that it will morph into danger and violence. Sometimes an officer gets shot or killed. The guy might be drinking or on drugs, and he probably has a gun. Handling those situations is always dicey, and the police know it.
For Chump to turn this kind of dangerous situation into political fluff is stupid and short-sighted.
