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Revealed: Trump administration retreats on combating human trafficking and child exploitation
(www.theguardian.com)
Just preparing for after his presidency...
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2025
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Can't expect any different from an obvious PEDOPHILE
Literally fucking campaigned on this shit. I'm so fucking disgusted people keep voting for a guy that just keeps pissing in their faces
If they're anything like their golden(-showering) god, they're into it.
They are far too concerned with rolling back human rights, attacking their political enemies, various money-making schemes, "owning the libs", making everyone not a billionaire absolutely miserable, and of course, covering up for the pedo-in-chief.
Well of course he doesn't want any more of his buddies swept up and mysteriously suicided.
Seriously, how many kids did he touch? This is getting ridiculous. It has been for sometime.
Underaged teen beauty pageants operated by Trump...
This is a long read, but worthwhile. The details are compelling. The administration has, unsurprisingly, tried to reframe the trafficking problem as one of immigration. This has allowed them to cut funding and staff, redirect resources, and ignore effective projects so they can bolster their deportation efforts. All of this is massively harmful to real victims and real solutions to human trafficking.
This is the definition of "when all you have is a hammer, every problem becomes a nail."
No, this is the definition of supporting pedophiles because that is what they do and that is who they are
This is the definition of "when all you have is a hammer, every problem becomes a nail."
No, this implies that there is a desire to fix anything in the first place
This is the definition of "when all you have is a hammer, every problem becomes a nail."
This is actually the opposite. The only problem they give a shit about is nails, so they are breaking all their other tools by bashing them into the wall.
So where are the "kill your local pedophile" folks?
A lot of those pedo hunters are in fact…pedos. They just project.
It’s the mythos of “white slavery.”
They want to protect children against swarthy foreigners, ala Taken. A white teenage girl married off to a white adult man is fine.
Turns out they were just fascists who will say whatever they think will gain them the most power in any particular situation, and they never actually cared about anything but that power.
Now that going after pedophiles doesn't get them power, they don't care. But don't worry, they'll revive that rhetoric when they decide it's time to go after "groomers" (ie LGBTQ people)
Nooo. It was totally only Epstein. Nobody else wants to rape kids...
hm i wonder why
So, hard working migrants. No. Child sex slaves. Yes?! Wtf.
It makes sense when you realize they hate brown people and love raping children.
More children for him and his Gang Of Paedos to rape.
... a gang-o-ped if you will (which you shouldn't!).
You see, nothing illegal happened on Trump-Epstein island. /s
The fuck ...with all their save the children pearl clutching bullshit?
They NEVER CARED ABOUT THE CHILDREN.
Everything they say is an excuse they think will be difficult to argue against, it they use it to dilute the very same accusations used against them.
"No one has ever been as hard as I am when it comes to exploitation, particularly, they say, the sexual exploitation of children. No one has ever been as hard. So we wiped it out. It's gone and it won't be ... there has never been anyone more dedicated to sexual exploitation is what they say."
Remove half of the context and it finally becomes accurate:
No one has ever been as hard as I am when it comes to exploitation, particularly, they say, the sexual exploitation of children. No one has ever been as hard.
You don't really have to remove any context except understanding how stupid Trump is. If you just read that without knowing Trump it would be a confession
I originally explained it was gone so he was going to pull funding because it wasn't needed but the bit got too long so I snipped all that. It's painful to think in his voice for too long.
whoops
Even for a veteran trump-watcher sometimes we forget there's no bottom. It only ever gets worse.
Still - I thought I couldn't respect the Qanut/MAGA/"What-about-the-children" people any less. And here we are.
Don't want it to distract from more important things like identifying people who make fascists sad online or fabricating a case against an innocent Italian plumber.
They would.
Well they are going to need a fresh supply of little ones, and it's not like they grow on trees, you know. Now that they control the government, they're in a sweet position to get new kids and make it legal to do whatever with them
Maybe this was the reason for trump to become president in the first place?