Trump Suggests Domestic Violence Isn't Really A Crime And Critics Pounce

[riversedge]

Source: huff Post


Considering that homicide by an abusive partner is the leading cause of death among pregnant and postpartum women in the U.S., it's no wonder that people were outraged.

David Moye Sep 8, 2025, 02:09 PM EDT

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During an event at Washington, D.C.’s Museum of the Bible on Monday, the president suggested domestic violence shouldn’t be considered a crime.

It appeared he was dismissing such actions because calling domestic violence a crime hurts his claim that crime has seriously dropped in D.C. since he deployed the National Guard last month.

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“They said crime’s down 87%. I said, ‘No, no, no, it’s more than 87%. Virtually nothing,’” Trump said during his speech, before suggesting domestic violence shouldn’t be considered a crime.


“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%.”

You can see Trump make the statement in the clip below...................



Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/critics-shocked-at-trumps-domestic-violence-crime-comment_n_68bf048fe4b055a5037b9638

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We have about over 3 years of Trumps crap yet. damn!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar
Trump claims crime is down to "virtually nothing" in DC and adds the crimes that are happening are "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 is a crime. See?'"

Link to tweet

Rolling Stone @RollingStone
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Trump said crime in Washington, D.C., would be nonexistent if local authorities
stopped counting "a little fight with the wife."

Story: https://rollingstone.com/politics/polit

Link to tweet

[Jimvanhise]

1. ARE REPUBLICANS REALLY HAPPY WITH THIS GUY?

Every day Trump says something stupid and the GOP just looks the other way even though Trump is burying the Republican party in a hole it will take them a decade to get out of.

[IronLionZion]

11. Yes

He normalizes truly deplorable stuff they like. They figure if the president says it's OK, then they can do it too.

[COL Mustard]

38. Sure they are.

Millions of people voted for him three times, knowing full well who he is...a psychopathic monster.

[wcmagumba]

2. This monster thinks slapping the little lady around a bit is not a crime, I bet Melania would have ripped his head off..

if he ever dared to touch her that way...he is such a jerk...

[electric_blue68]

3. BEYOND SCUM, EFFER!

[twodogsbarking]

4. He is the abuse, to all who are victims. Horrifying.

If there is a hell I hope he has to clean the terlets.

[riversedge]

5. Trump's pal Putin: FYI...Putin decriminalized domestic violence in 2017.

🇺🇦 Barnstormers For America
@BarnstormersUSA
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FYI...Putin decriminalized domestic violence in 2017.

Link to tweet

[Bayard]

6. He knocked Ivana around, and raped her

A loathsome excuse for a human being.

[durablend]

9. Probably beaten Melania a few times as well.

"Y'know, a woman needs to know her place"

[jgmiller]

10. No he's way too much of a chicken to actually hit her

[Hekate]

14. He's bigger and heavier (long before the weight gain) and he is known to brutalize people smaller than he

There’s much testimony on that lifelong pattern of behavior.
It is extremely unlikely that Melania has been spared violence.

[wiggs]

8. Huffpost? Hope it makes CNN, NYT, other MSM outlets. It should, but who knows these days. nt

[COL Mustard]

39. Fox watchers either would not believe it...

Or be fine with it.

[Torchlight]

12. Rapist makes rapey assertion

About par for the sand-trap of this administration.

My concern though is his message going out to his weak-willed voters who may consider this a pardon, if not an actual invitation to engage in his behavior.

[viva la]

13. You know what is a crime, Trump? Ripping your wife's hair out of her scalp.

Assaulting her. Forcing her sexually.

Ivana Trump's memoir details this event.

[sheshe2]

15. Stats

Scope of the problem
Population-level surveys based on reports from survivors provide the most accurate estimates of the prevalence of intimate partner violence and sexual violence. A 2018 analysis of prevalence data from 2000–2018 across 161 countries and areas, conducted by WHO on behalf of the UN Interagency working group on violence against women, found that worldwide, nearly 1 in 3, or 30%, of women have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner or non-partner sexual violence or both (2).

Global and regional estimates of violence against women
Over a quarter of women aged 15–49 years who have been in a relationship have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by their intimate partner at least once in their lifetime (since age 15). The prevalence estimates of lifetime intimate partner violence range from 20% in the Western Pacific, 22% in high-income countries and Europe and 25% in the WHO Regions of the Americas to 33% in the WHO African region, 31% in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, and 33% in the WHO South-East Asia region.

Globally as many as 38% of all murders of women are committed by intimate partners. In addition to intimate partner violence, globally 6% of women report having been sexually assaulted by someone other than a partner, although data for non-partner sexual violence are more limited. Intimate partner and sexual violence are mostly perpetrated by men against women.

Lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic and its social and economic impacts have increased the exposure of women to abusive partners and known risk factors, while limiting their access to services. Situations of humanitarian crises and displacement may exacerbate existing violence, such as by intimate partners, as well as non-partner sexual violence, and may also lead to new forms of violence against women.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/violence-against-women

[ReRe]

16. This is a very dangerous time for women and children

especially in the maga section of our society. Dependents are being abused because of the beliefs of this SOB we have as a President. it's a crime, I tell you. It's a crime.

[The Wizard]

17. In Republican parlance

Trump beats Malaria.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. Clueless as always

[Jack Valentino]

19. Donald--- When did you start beating your wife ??

[Hekate]

27. The classic double-bind question is: "When did you stop beating your wife? "

It’s a double-bind because it posits that he does beat his wife, and his denial sounds hollow.

[Jack Valentino]

31. Yeah, I know... I should have said "when did you start beating your wife AGAIN?"--

since Ivana already documented such things--- think it was in the 80's or 90's...

In this thread someone says one of her books claimed how he ripped her hair out...

[Orrex]

20. Why doesn't he just fucking die already?

[Crowman2009]

21. Get in the fuckin' box you old fossil!

Dump, McConnel, and all those other elder purveryors (emphasis on purv) and promoters of sexist/bigoted ideas need to just get in that box already.

[swong19104]

22. His claim that crime has dropped to zero in DC

is analogous to a doctor killing the patient and then remarking, “Well, see, the cancer’s stopped spreading!”

[slightlv]

23. I'm upset by the headline, obviously. I feel like white men will do anything to make

their crimes "less than" anything done by anyone else. However, I am also offended by "D.C.’s Museum of the Bible". This is the most stupidest thing I can think of to create and spend money on. Why not have a Museum of Zeus? It's all fables... and we're paying the price in so many ways.

[littlemissmartypants]

26. Christian Nationalists take everything by force. They are laser focused.

Here's an expert take on the topic:

The Violent Take it By Force by Matthew D. Taylor with The freedom from Religion Foundation. Interview ~ 30"

[RussBLib]

30. Thanks for posting that

Hadn't seen this episode of Freethought Matters. Haven't seen many of them, actually. This one is very good.

Trump has certainly co-opted a ton of religious "leaders."

"Trump may not be a good Christian, but he's an instrument in the hand of God." which allows them to forgive his immorality and still support him. Fucking sunovabitch.

[littlemissmartypants]

24. We are all now in an abusive relationship with our government.

See the similarities? Check out the wheel.

https://www.thehotline.org/identify-abuse/power-and-control/



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[Warpy]

25. "Nobody owns life but anyone who cak pick up a frying pan owns death." Wm S. Burroughs

Looks like a few voilent men are going to have to get their skulls bashed in before the government realizes stepping in before someone gets seriously injured or dead is a good idea.

Or maybe all married ladies should get the quote done in needlepoint as a sofa cushion or framed art print for the kitchen.

[niyad]

34. There are many uses for a cast iron skillet. .or a rock maple rolling pin.

[Warpy]

45. I'cw never had to use either one but I have used that qote from time to time

It was effective at discouraging the violent riffraff all by itself.

[niyad]

46. It was indeed.

[kimbutgar]

28. I wouldn't be surprised if the rates of domestic violence stats show the majority of the offenders are

White repuke men!

My first husband was a white repuke man who committed domestic violence in me! (I saw a Facebook post of his with his current wife and he was wearing a maga hat)

[usonian]

29. He had better watch his step.

I was married to a R.N. Who knew medical equipment. Broke up peacefully and still intact.

Metallica could do a number on him.

[niyad]

33. I love that movie, and those scenes.

[niyad]

32. Hey, rolling stone. The fucking RAPIST TRAITOR did NOT imply that

Domestic Violence is not a crime. He flat out said so.

Looks like rolling stone is going to roll over as well.

[Rhiannon12866]

35. And we know he was guilty of that with his first wife

[ShazzieB]

36. Well, well, well...

Another comment from Schlump that's actually a confession in disguise.

How UNsurprising.

[Buddyzbuddy]

37. Hey Melania, now you know, you're "the wife"

Didn't Ivana once report that the Felon raped her following a "painful botched hair replacement procedure" because she recommended it? Ah, now I understand. He didn't consider it a crime. Or, for that matter, a person deserving dignity and respect.

It's very evident that women and girls of all ages are there purely for his enjoyment. So he can grab them by the ....., to be referred to as "those lips, that mouth" when asked about his press secretary. Who can forget the photo of pre-teen Ivanka sitting on daddy's knee which would be an innocent pose had we not seen him in another photo with his hand on his daughter's ass during celebrations for his first term and his statement about acknowledging she was a piece of ass and also stating if she wasn't his daughter he'd probably be dating her.

That's not taking into account his numerous affairs while married, or proven felonious sexual assaults and accusations or his purchasing beauty pageants of adults and teenagers which he says gave him the right to ogle women and teen girls in various states of undress.

But he nevvver, had anything to do with Epstein and the sexual assaults on underage girls.

You "gentlemen" in the Republican party stand by and say nothing and defend this pig with your lies and denial. Why? Because you are him. You envy him and his behavior. Do your daughters know about daddy in the next room with your f.cked up thoughts and desires. You Republican women just stand by and do nothing, why, because it's a time honored tradition. Once again, I bring up the promised virginity that belongs to daddy until the right guy comes along. Isn't that quaint.
Go ahead, beat your wives, it doesn't count, not really.

[twodogsbarking]

40. Anyone remember when Joe Biden said this?

ABC, NBC, CBS this should be the lead story by every network. News? Bullshit.

[MIButterfly]

41. Ewww! I accidentally hit the video and heard him speak.

The sound of his voice irritates me to no end. I can't, I just can't listen to it. Anyway, I just wanted to say I despise that loathsome creature more and more every day. I can't believe he's president. I can't believe someone that totally ignorant even exists, let alone has people who listen to him, vote for him and follow him. Every time he opens his piehole, something incredibly stupid pours out amongst the gibberish. How can his followers not see that he has no, absolutely no, redeeming qualities whatsoever? NONE.

Every time I think he has gone as low as he possibly can, he goes and proves me wrong.

[travelingthrulife]

42. Ask Ivana...oh wait...

[Martin68]

43. Trump's comb-over hides the number "666" engraved on his scalp.

[twodogsbarking]

44. Leader of the " ranks of the insane". cr. Marcus Aurelius