Domestic violence group describes 'heartbreaking' decline in progress under Trump
The CEO of the US National Domestic Violence Hotline has said she hopes the controversy over the White House’s handling of domestic violence allegations against two members of staff will prompt the Trump administration to “engage in a new conversation” about the its policy approaches to violence against women.
“The issue of domestic violence – certainly now it’s very close to the White House, and has been for some time,” said Katie Ray-Jones, adding that she hoped that “will prompt them to engage in a new conversation” about these issues.
The Trump White House has faced a week of turmoil over questions about why White House aide Rob Porter had kept his job despite his two ex-wives’ descriptions of the ways that he physically and emotionally abused them. Porter was forced out of the White House last week only after one of his ex-wives made public a graphic photograph of herself with a black eye, though senior staffers knew of some of the allegations against him long before that.
On Saturday, the president tweeted what was seen as a broad condemnation of the #MeToo movement to hold sexual abusers accountable, posting, “People’s lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. Some are true and some are false. Some are old and some are new. There is no recovery for someone falsely accused – life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as due process?”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/11/domestic-violence-group-describes-heartbreaking-decline-in-progress-under-trump?