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.99center

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Mon Jun 25, 2018, 01:13 PM Jun 2018

Trump wishes he was still ripping children from their parents

https://shareblue.com/trump-regrets-executive-order-child-separations


Trump's sham executive order on family separations was just a ploy to kill bad headlines — and now he regrets even that meaningless gesture.


When outrage over Trump’s child confiscation crisis reached a fever pitch, Trump feigned compassion for the kids by signing a sham executive order that doesn’t actually protect families from being separated.

But now, Trump reportedly wishes that he hadn’t taken even that meager action — because ripping children away from their parents was playing well with his supporters.

The New York Times reports that Trump has privately “groused” to his aides that “he should not have signed the executive order” that he falsely claimed would end family separations.

And on Monday morning’s edition of CNN’s “New Day,” New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman added that Trump seemed to have been “pushed into doing something that he doesn’t necessarily want to do” when he signed the order.

“He wanted to make the TV images go away,” Haberman said. “He wanted this issue to disappear magically and quickly last week.”


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Trump wishes he was still ripping children from their parents (Original Post) .99center Jun 2018 OP
Poor widdle thief has a sad. lark Jun 2018 #1

lark

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1. Poor widdle thief has a sad.
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 02:16 PM
Jun 2018

He's not getting to kidnap and torture brown babies and children because some jerks exposed just the tip of the iceberg as to what was happening to these kids and everybody yelled about it. Putin, Xi, Ong, Edrogan and Duarte get to do this freely and damn it he wants high rights as dictator as well. Waah, Waah!!

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