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Related: About this forumTrump’s tactics of lying, bullying and name-calling are familiar to women who’ve survived abusive
Trump Is Triggering Domestic Violence Survivors With Textbook Abusive Behavior:He lies. He bullies. He threatens. And hes one step away from the presidency.
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Trump is triggering so many abuse and rape victims including me, Angel Marie Russell wrote on Facebook after the first presidential debate. His behavior is almost exact to my abusive exes. Its terrifying. I cant even watch him.
While domestic abuse is often characterized as acts of physical violence, its more accurate to understand it as a cluster of specific behavioral tactics that abusers employ to control, intimidate and coerce victims.
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His efforts to control Ms. Clinton and the dynamics of the debate (through his interrupting, his talking over and more loudly than Ms. Clinton) coupled with his very well-developed ability to evade accountability of any kind certainly reminded me of how men who batter operate, he said.
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This willingness to aggressively deny objective truths is a form of emotional abuse, called gas-lighting. Gas-lighting can cause victims to doubt their own memories and perceptions, and make it hard to distinguish fact from fiction.
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Much more at link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-is-triggering-domestic-violence-survivors-with-textbook-abusive-behavior_us_57ed0bafe4b082aad9b959fa?
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Trump’s tactics of lying, bullying and name-calling are familiar to women who’ve survived abusive (Original Post)
tblue37
Sep 2016
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RelativelyJones
(898 posts)1. All I want for Christmas
Is for this man to get his ass handed to him by a woman.
MountCleaners
(1,148 posts)2. I get triggered
Seeing the crowds of angry aggressive white men at his rallies.