Trump doesn't think domestic violence is a crime

[Tripnsweep]

Just more casual disdain for women from the GOP

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/us/politics/trump-domestic-violence-crime-statistics.html

[headshuck]

I can see how this will play out. Dems condemn Trump and spend the next week collaborating on Trump attacks and defending women, condemning men. The following weeks a bunch of examples of Dem’s looking even worse and on the wrong side of the topic.

[JimmySpeaks]

5 minutes ago, headshuck said:

I can see how this will play out. Dems condemn Trump and spend the next week collaborating on Trump attacks and defending women, condemning men. The following weeks a bunch of examples of Dem’s looking even worse and on the wrong side of the topic.

Good news is they’re too stupid to figure it out.  

[Tripnsweep]

2 hours ago, headshuck said:

I can see how this will play out. Dems condemn Trump and spend the next week collaborating on Trump attacks and defending women, condemning men. The following weeks a bunch of examples of Dem’s looking even worse and on the wrong side of the topic.

Provide your source on this information. 

[Caveira]

8 hours ago, Tripnsweep said:

Provide your source on this information. 

It’s how political news cycles work boss 

[Tripnsweep]

So nobody is going to say, "Gee maybe hitting women is bad."? 

[ionel]

9 minutes ago, Tripnsweep said:

So nobody is going to say, "Gee maybe hitting women is bad."? 

Where above has anyone said anything about hitting women? 

[Tripnsweep]

3 minutes ago, ionel said:

Where above has anyone said anything about hitting women? 

Apparently you didn't read the article. 

[ionel]

11 minutes ago, Tripnsweep said:

Apparently you didn't read the article. 

I read it once.  Can't access it now (paywall).  All I remember is "fighting."  Saw no reference to "hitting."  Mightve missed it though if you want to paste the quote.  

[headshuck]

Paywall’d. But Grok says - “Without further clarification from Trump or additional sources, it remains ambiguous whether he was referring strictly to verbal arguments or something broader.

[Tripnsweep]

Sept. 8, 2025

President Trump suggested on Monday that offenses that “take place in the home” should not count against his record of crime reduction in Washington, saying his opponents are using reports of “a little fight with the wife” to undermine his crackdown.

 

During remarks at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, Mr. Trump made a series of false statements about the level of crime in the nation’s capital, where he has ordered a federal takeover of law enforcement.

 

The president claimed without evidence that there was now zero crime in Washington. While crime is, in fact, declining in the capital — and Washington’s mayor has credited the federal law enforcement surge with contributing to the decline — there are still robberies, assaults and thefts occurring on a daily basis.

 

On Sunday alone, there was a homicide, six motor vehicle thefts, two assaults with a deadly weapon, four robberies and more than 30 thefts, according to police statistics.

“There’s no crime. They said, ‘Crime’s down 87 percent,’” Mr. Trump said Monday. “It’s more than 87 percent — virtually nothing.”

 

While Mr. Trump has made such false claims before, on Monday he sounded particularly aggrieved that domestic violence crimes were counting against him.

 

“Things that take place in the home they call crime,” he said. “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 scene.”

 

Those comments provoked quick criticism.

 

“Just a casual dismissal of domestic violence as a crime,” Sarah Longwell, a longtime Republican political strategist, wrote on social media.

The president has often sought to create an alternative reality of crime statistics to support the law enforcement actions he wishes to take.

 

On Monday he said people had categorized Washington as “the worst, the most violent city” in America, despite statistics showing a major crime decline in the nation’s capital even before his crackdown.

 

He has also targeted a series of other cities that are experiencing a crime decline, including Chicago, Baltimore and New Orleans.

 

“I don’t know why Chicago isn’t calling us saying, please give us help,” Mr. Trump said on 

[ionel]

58 minutes ago, Tripnsweep said:

Sept. 8, 2025

President Trump suggested on Monday that offenses that “take place in the home” should not count against his record of crime reduction in Washington, saying his opponents are using reports of “a little fight with the wife” to undermine his crackdown.

 

So you are saying if my wife and I have a little "fight" over who should do the dishes or take out the garbage that should be considered a domestic violence crime?