Trump clearly believes that domestic violence is not a crime. This makes a lot of sense | Moira Donegan

sClimb at the Christian Museum on Monday Donald Trump Falsely claiming that his deployment of the National Guard invasion of the country’s capital has eliminated Washington’s crime. However, he complained that crime statistics are counting domestic violence, which he claimed means his policy impact is not important enough. “They said, ‘The crime rate has dropped by 87%,'” the president claimno explanation of who “they” are. “I said, no, no.

If Trump wants to endorse domestic violence violations, he may feel comforted in the status quo: About 24% According to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, adult American women are victims of “severe physical violence” of an intimate partner. this Centers for Disease ControlMeanwhile, the proportion of women who have experienced “contact sexual violence, physical violence or intimate partner stalking” will be 41%. Many of these incidents have not been reported or prosecuted – meaning that the perpetrators are free and that their attacks are not considered completely “criminal”.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration has been working to ensure that victims of domestic violence have even fewer resources, and even the scanner’s chances escape abusers. The Trump administration has moved to Large cut Domestic violence granted by the federal government to nonprofits depends heavily on federal funds. The government further seeks to freeze funds to domestic violence charities that serve trans women victims and participate in diversity, equity and inclusion programs, seriously hindering the work of groups seeking to serve marginalized victims in LGBTQ+ or racial minorities, or using domestic violence as a gender justice issue. The government also takes action to regulate domestic violence funds with the willingness of charities to hand over abused women icethis move will severely limit the ability of undocumented victims to seek help.

Trump’s complaints that private violence imposed by men against women should not be considered a crime is a criminal thing, with an ancient and long-standing legal understanding of women’s identity, the nature of marriage, and the privilege of men at home, which determines that women have no husbands in the private sphere or men need to respect and have the right to private private sphere of women.

This notion – gender, family and sexual relations are private affairs where the law has nothing to say, and the state has no responsibility to defend its rights and security for women from male violence – in the long process of feminist legal activists have been demolished in the 20th century, who worked to place women in the women’s rights and rights of women and provide women with the right to crime and provide their own businesses with material opportunities and opportunities.

But Trump’s interpretation of the law also has a long history. The 17th-century British jurist Matthew Hale was seriously cited by Judge Samuel Alito in Dobbs’ decision, who made a legal clear view of men when he wrote that his husband’s rape was Not illegalbecause: “The husband cannot commit the rape committed by his legal wife because their marriage consent form and signed by the wife to give up her husband in this way, and she cannot withdraw it.” Hale’s vision of marriage is to give a man in a private relationship with the right to commit violence against his wife, in which the woman’s initial consent to the marriage eliminates any statement she may then have to have on her rights, property or body – is in full control. “I Will” is translated as permanent, irrevocable and fearful inclusion “He Can”.

Not surprisingly, Trump believes that domestic violence against women should not be a crime. This is someone who once boasted that he likes to “catch ’em with a cat”. More than twenty women accused men of sexual misconduct; his first wife (who later canceled her charges) and author E Jean Carroll were accused of rape, and his verdict on Trump was upheld by the court on the same day. It is allegedly a person suspected of breaking into a young beauty pageant, their letter to a pedophile financier Jeffrey Epsteinpraise the “wonderful secret” shared by both, Being public On Monday, there were also drawings in the form of naked women.

What is even more surprising is how closely Trump’s perception of the privileges and rights of abusing his husband’s abuse of his wife reflects his understanding of his privileges and rights, and is aware of the president of his abused country. During his second term, Trump spoke about the 2024 election, similar to Hale’s vow to marriage: an irrevocable grant as a full power. He believes that because he won the 2024 election, there is no right now that more Americans have to respect: He can throw away the will of Congress, kidnap civil servants at will, kidnap our neighbors and invade our cities.

These are not gestures of respecting his people and seeking to serve their leaders, just as Hale’s vision of marriage is not a vision of a husband respecting his wife’s equality and seeking to love her. This model is not a partnership, but a domination. This time, the United States itself is beating.