Donald Trump's Virginia stories

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Donald Trump's weird tales: His call to "liberate Virginia" is even worse than you think
Trump's call to "liberate Virginia" from gun safety echoes one of the craziest, nastiest lies of his presidency


(Salon) The governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, is back on Donald Trump's grievance radar. This time it's for supporting a series of common sense gun safety proposals working their way through the newly Democratic-controlled legislature in Richmond.

By way of background, you might recall how the commonwealth's governor was previously attacked by Trump after Northam bungled a remark regarding hospice or palliative care for infants born with catastrophic, terminal diseases and birth defects.

Trump, always fascinated by grisly storytelling and always drawn to concoct outrageous lies, framed what Northam had said as though the governor, as well as Democrats at large, wanted to allow parents to randomly and electively murder their newborn babies. The way Trump continues to describe it in his rallies and on Twitter is that Democrats are fine with parents bringing their perfectly healthy children home from hospitals, placing them in cribs and then killing them somehow, just because, we assume, the parents have decided — whoops! — they didn't want children after all, you know, after nine months of expense, physical discomfort and existential stress.

Obviously Democrats are proposing nothing of the kind, and have never proposed anything close to that psychotic delusion, which could only have emerged, like an "Alien" chest-burster in language form, from Trump's tormented and sociopathic brain. The law he's describing actually allows for humane intervention, when it comes to terminally ill newborn infants. Democrats merely want to ensure parents can decide to forgo extreme life-preserving medical techniques in order to spare terminally ill newborns who may be in severe pain. Northam, despite his fumbled language, was simply saying that parents can authorize palliative care for their newborn infants who are clearly going to die. That's it. .............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2020/04/21/donald-trumps-weird-tales-his-call-to-liberate-virginia-is-even-worse-than-you-think/