On the long list of disgusting things the Trump administration and the GOP have done in the time that Donald Trump has been president, the exploitation of the death of Mollie Tibbetts at the hands of an immigrant despite requests and pleas from her family to stop is at the top. Trump, Jr., of course, felt the need to weigh in on the case and bungled it badly and outrageously.
The victim’s name is Mollie Tibbetts, not Mollie Tibbits. Trump and his people, including Fox News, have been asked by the family they say they grieve so deeply for to stop politicizing her death. They have been ignored.
Newt Gingrich has already exposed the GOP for plans to exploit her death. In fact, he hasn’t even tried to hide the disgusting strategy, and Fox News has gleefully accepted that.
Gingrich: 'Tibbetts could be more important person than Manafort' in fall https://t.co/G9oet3bUqI
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) August 24, 2018
There is nothing “moronic” about Symone D. Sanders tweet, although Trump, Jr., who nauseatingly misuses the #metoo hashtag for his own purposes in a disrespectful taunt of the movement to end sexual and physical violence women experience, remains ignorant about the issue.
Statistics show that 90.3 percent of all murders are committed by men, the most common family relationship between a perpetrator and victim of murder is a husband who kills his wife, a full half of all murders in which the victim is female is committed by a male intimate partner, and domestic violence is the number one cause of injury for women in Tibbett’s age range.
There’s nothing moronic, dumb, or “PC culture” in talking about this issue. It’s one the Trump administration and the GOP has fallen far short of understanding.
Twitter was understandably outraged by Junior’s tweet. See some of their comments below:
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