The Abuser-in-Chief

Yesterday, the President of the United States of America aided and abetted domestic abuse.

Touting that Washington, DC is much safer after sending in National Guard troops, he told reporters:

"It's called the safe-zone city. There's no crime, they said crime is down 87%. I said no, no, no, it's more than 87%. [It's] virtually nothing."

Then,

"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%."

This is what happens when you elect a rapist and abuser to the most powerful position on earth.

Here are some statistics about domestic violence from the National Network to End Domestic Violence:

· Almost one in two women (47.3% or 59 million) and more than four in 10 men (44.2% or 52.1 million) in the United States reported contact sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime.

· Nearly eight million women reported contact sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in the 12 months preceding one survey.

· One in five women and one in 14 men have experienced completed or attempted rape in her or his lifetime.

· In 2022, men killed 2,410 women in single victim/single offender incidents – an average of more than six homicides each day. For killings where the relationship could be identified, 87.5% of female victims were murdered by someone they knew; of these, 58.1% were wives, ex-wives, or girlfriends.

Almost everyone knows a past or current survivor of domestic violence.

You work with them and go to church with them.

They’re your friends and neighbors.

They’re your cousins and aunts.

They’re your sisters and girlfriends.

They might even be your mother.

Domestic violence is an evil that perpetuates exponentially.

It cuts across race, class, religion, gender, and sexual identification.

The US president minimizing and trivializing domestic violence is an act of abuse and violence against everyone who has, is, and will suffer from abuse.

It is beyond unconscionable when someone carrying such a consequential mantle of leadership trivializes suffering and debasement.

But consider the source.

These words came from an adjudicated rapist.

He would say these things because he’s part of the problem.

Domestic violence is a societal cancer.

It can hide in the shadows, or it can be seen in broad daylight.

It is a pernicious evil that strikes at the heart of society through relationships built on trust and every manner of intimacy.

No excuse can be made for his words.

They can’t be mitigated or explained.

His churchgoing supporters can’t concoct a single coherent, logical explanation for what he said.

His party has long been a bastion of hypocrisy regarding morals and values, and this is the unfortunate, but logical conclusion of their hypocrisy.

They have propped up an abuser and violated as someone sent by God to rid the country of all its supposed evils.

The country accepted the hornswoggle and elected him president twice.

The man who is supposedly Jesus’ own but was very good friends with one of history’s worst abusers and procurers of abuse.

This is who a large segment of Americans believe will “make America great again.”

This kind of greatness isn’t worth the cost.