That domestic violence was PRIVATE
It’s strange how men who assault women, or defend other men who assault women, keep turning up in Trump’s administration. The acting secretary of defense just resigned.
The Washington Post pressed the button to launch this story at 12.58PM ET today, one minute ahead of the time logged when Donald Trump announced Shanahan’s withdrawal from the process to find his forever home at the Pentagon.
It’s pretty raw, beginning:
In the months that he has served as President Trump’s acting secretary of defense, Patrick Shanahan has worked to keep domestic violence incidents within his family private. His wife was arrested after punching him in the face, and his son was arrested after a separate incident in which he hit his mother with a baseball bat. Public disclosure of the nearly decade-old episodes would re-traumatize his young adult children, Shanahan said.
The son hit his mother in the head with a baseball bat, and fractured her skull. Shanahan defended the son.
Welcome to Club Trump.
The son was given a slap on the wrist sentence and then went on to college. So, he is running loose in society. The details of the attack on his mother are sickening.
I can’t see the Post links. But this sounds like another Palin household.
There’s enough in the Guardian:
What, is he a fast swimmer too?
I wonder how the mum fared in all this…?
Ah. Seems her life, or at least her head, was a bit ruined too.