Downplaying Domestic Violence

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

Much of what Donald Trump says is so blatantly false that Americans have long since ceased being shocked by his absurd pronouncements.  His bellicose disdain for the truth was on full display Monday during a speech at the "Museum of the Bible" in Washington, DC, when he made the claim that his military invasion of Washington, DC, had completely eliminated crime in our nation's capital and made it into a "safe zone."  There probably weren't many on either side of the political fence who did not roll their eyes at that one.

(The New York Times reported that on Sunday, the day before Trump's speech, there was a homicide in Washington, DC, along with six motor vehicle thefts, two assaults with a deadly weapon, four robberies, and more than thirty thefts - according to police statistics)

But Trump only amended his statement and sentiment to include the fact that there were still reports of domestic violence in the city, something he seemed to downplay as little more than a distraction to the reporting of crime.  In minimizing the very real and dangerous crime of domestic violence, he said:  

"Things that take place in the home, they call crime.  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.'"

Trump likes numbers, positive numbers that make him look good.  He does not like numbers that tell a story other than the one he wants heard.   Numbers that have a negative impact on the story he is trying to tell are distractions and part of the eternal leftist plot against him.

Crime in Washington, DC, is down and it has been going down for. a couple of years - long before Donald Trump's active interference in the District's policing,  but crime still exists in Washington, DC, as it does throughout all the major cities of the world, and it exists in DC in spite of any claims that Donald John Trump makes to the contrary.

That's life in the real world, the one most of us inhabit.

Baloney is baloney, whether it is served up on a paper plate as a sandwich by a fearful spouse in a mobile home, or spoken through a golden megaphone by a politician at a biblical museum.

(While the United States government curiously does not collect statistical data on deaths and injuries from domestic violence, compiled reports from various sources put the number of deaths (mostly wives) at between 1,000 and 4,000 annually, with injuries somewhere in the range of 2 million.  Those "little fights" can quickly escalate into blood baths, especially in homes where guns are more common than books.)