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Trump created this horror show. He chose to separate children from their parents to try to create negotiating leverage. He used them, used their lives, used their pain as a means to an end. He treated them as non-persons.
He was enabled by racists in the White House and cowards in Congress who did NOTHING to stop him. They couldn't even muster up the courage to speak against it at first. Once the polling numbers came in they spoke out, but still did not ACT. Even after Trump signs his little paper, no action from Congress during this sordid mess.
Trump gets no credit for reversing himself when going in that direction in the first place was a moral abomination. You don't get brownie points for *stopping* behaving like a monster. You shouldn't have been doing it anyway.
And he's going to pretend like it's all over now. It is not. Every reporter, every pundit, every news anchor from now until the end of time should be asking Trump these questions:
How many of the children you separated still haven't been reunited with their parents? Where are these children? What did you do to their parents? Do you even know?
How many of the children you separated have gone missing? Who is responsible for finding them? Are you even looking?
How many of the children you separated have persistent developmental and psychological problems? How are they going to get treatment? Are you going to pay for the damage you caused?
Never let him pretend he didn't do this. HE DID THIS. He owns it. Forever.
Moostache
(9,897 posts)"Hey look, I recognized that people did not like my policy of interning babies to use the pain of their mothers as a bargaining chip...but at least I stopped it. Don't I EVER get credit for ANYTHING? What about MY feelings here, huh?"
That is EXACTLY the mindset and talking points for Trump...word for fucking word. That son of a bitch truly believes HE is a victim in this, and THAT should never be allowed to slip into memory un-examined or un-prosecuted.
You cannot rob a bank and return the money and be forgiven on the spot...
You cannot steal babies, torment mothers, fathers and infants for political means and then claim victory...
Gothmog
(145,968 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Liars.
lame54
(35,359 posts)Keep the families locked up together
Indefinitely
Still unclear on that but I don't trust him