Is this why Trump wants to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council?

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Jake Tapper @jaketapper
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights “expressed deep concern over recent policies adopted by the United States that led to the forceful separation of children from their families..that any State would seek to deter parents by inflicting abuse on children was unconscionable.”

This is Not Normal - HE LIES @bingwisdom 2h2 hours ago
Nikki Haley response:

"Neither the United Nations nor anyone else will dictate how the United States upholds its borders." Nikki Haley in response to criticism over fam. separation @ US borders by Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights.

US expected to withdraw from UN Human Rights Council: report
http://thehill.com/policy/international/392418-us-expected-to-withdraw-from-un-human-rights-council-report

U.N. Rights Chief Tells U.S. to Stop Taking Migrant Children From Parents
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/world/europe/trump-migrant-children-un.html

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. It's probably at least part of it.

But I shudder to think of what else he has up his sleeve. It'd be well deserved if the UNHRC kicks us out instead of letting him withdraw.

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3. yeah, he's on the hook over there, already

...for a number of crimes and offenses abroad. Stuff like refusing to keep records of civilians killed by the U.S. military.

There's also his associations with dictators which is likely spurring it on - orders from his oligarch benefactors, no doubt.

[Wounded Bear]

2. The RW has long wanted to withdraw from the UN...

they've skimped on payments in the past.

They want international chaos. They don't remember what happened with the League of Nations. When the US refused to join, it became internationally weak, which was a contributing factor to returning to war in WWII. There are some historians who don't separate WWI & II, and just refer to them as a continuous war, with a 20 year hiatus, because many of the same factors contributed to both. The LoN was a stab at ameliorating some of the problems of the age, but if failed, largely because the US rejected it.

The UN may have failed in a lot of ways, but at least there has not been a major war since its inception.

[workinclasszero]

4. "but at least there has not been a major war since its inception"

Another reason Trump and his handler Putin want to get rid of it.

That and the gross human rights violations against children that Trump and the GOP are committing on our southern border of course.

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5. there was a three-year boycott of the human rights council under Bush

...ducking accountability in the world body for it's own crimes, and in support of the Israeli government.

President Obama rejoined.

[Roland99]

6. Ostensibly, it's about Israel. But immigration is the straw that broke Twitler's back