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Tuesday June 19, 2018 · 8:12 PM PDT

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Best term to use to describe the Trump Administration policy on child separation at the southern border is CHILD ABUSE. National associations of pediatricians and psychiatry confirm the terrible and permanent trauma that results from the abrupt, radical, and brutal separation of parent and child. This includes permanent damage to the developing brain of the child. Why is this happening? Some pundits say it is for leverage Trump wants to use to get funding for his Wall. Others say it is leverage for Trump to get other immigration policy changes. Trump AG and other administration officials say it is to deter the asylum seekers and others fleeing extreme poverty, violence, imminent danger, death, gang violence, or domestic abuse. But whatever Trump’s objective, other humane tactics could be used. Why child abuse? Child abusers typically do not have empathy. Would anyone say that our compulsive, genital grabbing president has a high empathy quotient? Perhaps he was a child abuser before he became president? An interesting data point on that comes from an interview he and Ivanka gave about five years ago on the Wendy Williams Show. He was asked what he and Ivanka had in common, meaning what they both liked. She said business and golf. He said sex. She was visibly offended. The matter was not further explored but a fair question would be--was Ivanka a victim of child abuse at a tender age. Did he abuse his own child? Is the child abuse at the core of Trump’s southern border family separation policy simply part of the warp and woof of Trump’s character and part of a thread going back over decades that includes stiffing of contractors, assaults on women, contempt for the truth, abusive treatment of wives, Trump University fraud, and possibly including abuse of one or more of his own children? It’s a horrific thought. But it could be all of a piece with what is happening on the southern border. Zero tolerance? No, zero empathy.

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