Why Trump Lost Control of the Child-Detention Scandal
June 23, 2018 at 8:09 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Vanity Fair: The wrenching story of migrant children being separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border has unfolded differently. Trump has been forced to play defense. Its not just because the policy is cruel, inhumane, and an ugly stain on our countrys moral integrity. It is all of those things. But Trump has done plenty of ugly things. Whats different this time, and the handful of times Trump has found himself losing, is that there are pictures.
Think of the handful of moments when Trump has been subjected to a sustained drubbing thats lasted more than just a day or two: the Access Hollywood tape. Sean Spicers lie about the size of the inauguration crowd. The massive airport protests around the travel ban. Trumps very fine people comment about neo-Nazi marchers in Charlottesville. The Rob Porter domestic-abuse allegations fiasco. (Porter has denied the allegations.) And now the gross panorama of migrant children being separated from their desperate parents. All of these stories were accompanied by imagespictures or videothat either tilted public opinion against the president or blatantly contradicted the dubious claims of Trump and his allies.
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