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THE ONE CRIME TRUMP DOESN’T SEEM TO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH? DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE.  
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Julianne McShane
September 8, 2025
Mother Jones
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_ “If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a
crime, see? So now I can’t claim 100 percent [reduction in
crime],” the president said Monday. _

While speaking to the Religious Liberty Commission at the Museum of
the Bible on Monday, President Donald Trump seemed to downplay the
problem of domestic violence., Evan Vucci/AP

 

Speaking at the Museum of the Bible on Monday, President Donald Trump
repeated one of his favorite falsehoods as of late: That his
deployment of the National Guard in Washington, DC
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has virtually eliminated crime in the nation’s capital.

That is, of course, not true
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But if that outright falsehood was not egregious enough, consider that
Trump also complained that reports of domestic violence are inflating
crime statistics and implied they should not be considered
“crimes” at all.

“Things that take place in the home, they call crime,” Trump said.
“They’ll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a
little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see? So now I
can’t claim 100 percent [reduction in crime].”

Dawn Dalton, executive director of the DC Coalition Against Domestic
Violence, told me on Monday: “We don’t agree with what the
president is saying.” Nearly half of women in DC, and more than 40
percent of men, have experienced intimate partner violence or stalking
in their lifetimes, according
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to statistics the coalition compiled last year. Nationwide, an average
of two dozen people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence,
or stalking by an intimate partner, according to
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the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

“There have been federal and local statutes in place for decades
that do name domestic violence as a crime,” Dalton added, “and we
know that domestic violence is often a precursor to other crimes,
including domestic violence homicides as well as mass shootings.”
Indeed, research has found
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that in nearly 70 percent of mass shootings, perpetrators had a
history of domestic violence or had killed at least one partner or
family member.

“The frequency and the harm [of domestic violence] is not paid
enough attention to, and remarks such as the president’s certainly
underscore that truth,” Dalton added.

National leaders in domestic violence treatment and prevention also
condemned Trump’s remarks. Katie Ray-Jones, CEO of the National
Domestic Violence Hotline, told _Mother Jones_: “No matter what it
looks like or where it happens, all forms of abuse are harmful whether
they are considered a crime or not. Victims and survivors need and
deserve to be validated and supported in their journey to safety.”

“Domestic violence is a crisis that strikes at the core of our
communities,” Stephanie Love-Patterson, president and CEO of the
National Network to End Domestic Violence, said in a
statement. “Behind every victim is a story of escalating coercion,
fear, and violence that can’t be ignored or trivialized.”

Abigail Jackson, a spokesperson for the White House, said in a
statement provided to _Mother Jones_: “Of course the President
wasn’t talking about or downplaying domestic violence—and any Fake
News hacks trying to use this as a political cudgel against the
President are doing a great service to actual domestic abusers and
criminals around the country.”

 

In fact, Trump has not only downplayed domestic violence through his
speech, but also through his actions: His administration has cut
millions of dollars
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in grants earmarked for victims of crime, including domestic violence,
and has tried to force domestic violence service providers
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to agree to hand crime victims over to Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) in order to receive federal dollars.
A statement like the one Trump made is also not surprising when you
consider the man that uttered it has himself been accused of rape by
his ex-wife, Ivana Trump. She later claimed
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she did not mean it “in a literal or criminal sense,” adding that
she “felt violated.” (Trump denied the allegation.)

Trump has also stacked his Cabinet and surrounded himself with men who
have faced similar accusations. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s own
mother called
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him “an abuser of women,” in a 2018 email, though she told
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the _New York Times_ last year that she subsequently recanted and
apologized for it. Hegseth has also been accused
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of rape and sexually inappropriate behavior, charges which he denies.
(Hegseth paid the woman who made the rape accusation, the _Washington
Post _reported
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but he alleges the interaction was consensual.) Health and Human
Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr
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of groping a babysitter in the late 1990s. While running for president
last year, he texted
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her to apologize and said he had no memory of the incident.
Ex-Department of Government Efficiency
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sexual misconduct by a SpaceX flight attendant in 2016, but he denied
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the claim—after Business Insider reported
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that the company paid her $250,000 in 2018 to keep her from filing a
lawsuit. And Rob Porter, a top White House aide, abruptly resigned
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during Trump’s first term after two of his ex-wives came forward
with domestic abuse allegations, which Trump himself cast doubt on
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While there is ample evidence that the police do not always protect
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domestic violence victims or respond adequately
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seems very unlikely that this is what Trump was referring to. The man
is, after all, about the furthest thing from an abolitionist: His
so-called One Big Beautiful Bill allocated
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more than $100 billion to ICE—the same agency that has created a
chilling effect for immigrant survivors of domestic violence seeking
help, as I previously reported
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And the president has repeatedly threatened
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to send the National Guard to take over other cities after doing so in
DC and Los Angeles.

Instead, his latest comments are a throwback
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to the infamous _Access Hollywood _tape. Trump seems to believe that,
if you’re a man, “you can do anything” to women—and that you
deserve to get away with it.

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