Trump has so many domestic abusers around him that Mick Mulvaney couldn’t be sure which one Trump was defending with his tweet.

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Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday: I really don’t want to keep on this, but even after he was gone, the president still has not said anything about zero-tolerance. He still hasn’t mentioned that the lives of the two women who were the subjects of abuse, that those lives have been shattered too.

Director Mulvaney: What I think you saw there was a couple of different things. That tweet we can be applied to a bunch of different people. When I saw the tweet, I noticed Rob Porter wasn’t mentioned. I had wondered if he was talking about his friend Steve Wynn who has been essentially condemned without due process. What you also saw that from the president is a certain sadness that somebody that he liked had let him down.

Trump has so many domestic abusers around him that Mulvaney wasn’t sure who he was talking about

The White House’s defense of Trump’s tweet is that the President Of The United States has so many men who commit acts of domestic violence in his circle that when he issues a tweet defending a man or men who harm women, it is impossible to know exactly who he is talking about.

Most presidents don’t have this problem because they don’t harm women and they don’t hire men who physically abuse women. The problem isn’t which domestic abuser Trump was talking about. The problem is that there are a wide array of domestic abusers that the president could have been discussing in that tweet, including himself. Trump is a moral sickness that must be cured and removed from our national body, and the fact that Mulvaney didn’t know who Trump was talking about demonstrates that our nation is dealing with an epidemic.

Jason Easley

Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.

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