'Womp, womp': Ex-Trump campaign manager Lewandowski mocks migrant girl with Down syndrome
Source: USA Today
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski cynically dismissed concerns about reports that a migrant girl with Down syndrome had been separated from her mother at the southwest U.S. border as a result of the White House's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy.
"Womp, womp," Lewandowski said to fellow panelist Zac Petkanas during an appearance on Fox News Tuesday night after Petkanas, a Democratic strategist, said he had read about a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome "who was taken from her mother and put in a cage."
"Did you say 'womp, womp' to a 10-year-old with Down syndrome being separated from her mother?" a shocked Petkanas asked. "How dare you."
"What I said is you can pick anything you want to, but the bottom line is very clear: when you cross the border illegally you have given up the rights of that country," Lewandowski said. "When you cross the border illegally, when you commit a crime, you are taken away from your family because that's how this country works."
After the show, Petkansas said in a tweet that exchange with Lewandowski "was truly a surreal moment."
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Here's the link Buzzfeed story on the 10 year old child with Down's who was separated from her mother.
A 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome was detained and separated from her mother by US immigration officials last week in what Mexico's minister of foreign affairs called a "particularly painful" case of families being separated at the border.
The young girl, who crossed the border illegally with her brother and mother, was being held in a detention facility in McAllen, Texas, even though her father is a legal US resident, Mexico's Foreign Affairs Minister Luis Videgaray said at a press conference Tuesday.
"From conviction and by constitutional obligation, we cannot remain indifferent before an inhumane and cruel situation," Videgaray said.
Mexico's government issued a strong rebuke Tuesday of the Trump administration's decision to separate children from their parents at the border over its "zero tolerance" policy and asked for the policy to be rescinded, Videgaray said. Mexico has also requested officials from the UN Human Rights Council monitor the situation.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,076 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Noticed a couple minutes ago,CNN doing a image repair job on this Slug.
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)if your kid had this problem would you have said that.............that is just fucking deplorable..............
ancianita
(35,813 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)Credit to Any_Walk on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/8sdx7r/lewandowski_on_girl_with_down_syndrome_separated/e0ypgbz/
Jedi Guy
(3,171 posts)They are concentration camps. It not only can happen here, it is happening here. This is monstrous, and those who support it, like Lewandowski, are monsters.
This is a crime against humanity, unfolding live on our soil. The United Nations needs to direct Interpol to issue warrants for the arrest of all involved in this, from Trump on down. If any of them set foot outside America, they need to be arrested and tried before the International Criminal Court.
This is wrong, and sickening, and shameful. I'm beyond disgusted that we've come to this as a country.
Demovictory9
(32,324 posts)Lars39
(26,093 posts)Demovictory9
(32,324 posts)Julian Englis
(2,309 posts)Demovictory9
(32,324 posts)AnotherMother4Peace
(4,225 posts)Demovictory9
(32,324 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)is "an orchestra" of tiny violins playing for each one of them and a nice trombone section playing "womp womp".
appalachiablue
(41,055 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)hotrod0808
(323 posts)needs his ass kicked up around his shoulders. He is living fucking proof that life is not fair, and that having money does not equate to having class. I hope he gets painful dick cancer and doesn't die of it, but lives to be 95 with chronic cock pain. Fuck him.
Julian Englis
(2,309 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,113 posts)Nobody can survive working for 45 except the coldest, cruelest, most inhumane humans in Washington.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)Figures.
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)What a disgusting, sorry excuse of a human being.
IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)itcfish
(1,828 posts)Womp Womp mean?
hatrack
(59,442 posts).
itcfish
(1,828 posts)n/t
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)mocking a child...so freaking cruel. republicans need to turn their back on their sick family values and embrace America values