Anderson Cooper Lets Out The Stops Responding to Trump on Haiti

After describing the strength, determination, and courage of Haitians digging with bare and blooded hands through rubble to save strangers with no help from their government or from the outside. He describes seeing children, including a 5 year old boy, pulled from the rubble: 

“Do you know what strength it takes to survive on rainwater, buried under concrete, a 5 year-old boy for seven days?

“Haitians slap your hand hard when they shake your hand. They look you in the eye, they don’t blink. They stand tall and they have dignity. It’s a dignity many in this Whitehouse could learn from. It’s a dignity the president with all his money and all his power could learn from as well.

“On the anniversary of the earthquake, on this day when the president has said what he has said about Haitians, we hope that people of Haiti wherever they are listening from, in Port-au-Prince, Jacmel, In Bainet, in Miami and elsewhere: We hope they know that our thoughts are with them and our love is with them as well.”

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  • "shithole" countries: did Democrats Flunk the Art of the Deal?

    “shithole” countries:
    did Democrats Flunk
    the Art of the Deal,
    and fail to use this moment in U.S. History
    with this particular President,
    to their advantage?

    “with no help from their government”
    The Haitians helped as many as
    their fellow countrymen and women
    and children to survive
    as they could with their bare,
    bloodied hands.

    Now, I ask the Democrats in Vermont,
    and everyone else
    who is criticizing President Donal Trump:
    When a government of a Country
    provides no help to earthquake victims,
    is that
    or is that not,
    a “shithole” Country?

    Couldn’t the Democrats and others
    have “won”
    the “Art of the Deal”
    by saying to President Donald Trump,

    “Yes, Mr. President,
    we agree that some of these are “shithole” Countries,
    and therefore we ask you to agree with us
    that it is time to sit down together at the table
    and talk about immigration reform,

    in full consideration of the facts
    that some of these “shithole” Countries
    have wars between various factions and groups
    going on inside with regular people at the
    crosshairs getting injured;

    and some of these “shithole” Countries
    abuse women and beat them and don’t
    give them equal rights;

    and some of these “shithole” Countries
    put little girls up on the kitchen
    table and cut off their clitoris
    so that they will have no sexy feelings
    or desire boys their own age
    when they are forced to get
    married at 13 to an older man in the village;

    and some of these “shithole” Countries
    have no adequate medical resources or
    treatment for their citizens left
    suffering with diseases;

    so, Yes, Mr. President Donald Trump,
    we agree with you 100%,
    some of these Countries in Africa
    and elsewhere are “shithole” Countries
    so please sit at the table with us
    and discuss what we can do to help them.

    Thank you, President Donald Trump,
    for speaking the truth about the conditions
    in some African Countries and some other
    Countries with inadequate emergency help
    like Haiti, Thank you for being brave
    enough to call a “shithole” a “shithole”.

    That’s why you were voted into Office,
    President Donald Trump,
    we got tired of other candidates putting
    frosting on rotten cakes.

  • VERMONT LAW STUDENTS: READ THESE LINKS, then define "ShitHole!"

    VERMONT LAW SCHOOL STUDENTS, PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO
    READ ALL OF THESE ARTICLES AND THEN DEFINE: “SHITHOLE COUNTRIES”.

    Why can’t Democrats just AGREE with President Donald Trump
    that some of these Countries have problems and
    sit down at the table and work out a deal to help them?

    Violence Against Women in Haiti

    Survivors of Haiti’s Sexual Violence Crisis
    http://www.newsweek.com/2017/04/28/haiti-epidemic-sexual-violence-rape-survivors-crisis-586061.html
    … “rape is a perennial problem in Haiti
    because of poverty, instability and attitudes toward women,
    reports of sexual violence surged after the 2010 earthquake”…

    Sexual violence in Haiti is a public health problem:
    charity – Reuters
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-haiti-sexual-violence-women-idUSKBN1A41T2
    Jul 19, 2017 … BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
    … “Rampant sexual violence in Haiti against women and children,
    including some toddlers,
    should be treated as a public health issue
    and more care made available for survivors
    the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said.”….

    Violence Against Women In Africa

    HuffPost
    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/stan-chu-ilo/tackling-violence-against_b_11204320.html
    Jul 28, 2016 “Many people have wondered why Africa
    has not made significant progress in
    protecting women against violence
    despite the clear commitment made in 1995
    by 53 African nations with the
    African Union’s Protocol on the Rights of African
    Women.
    Beyond the lack of political will, and the unequal” …

    Taking on violence against women in Africa – the United Nations
    http://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/special-edition-women-2012/taking-violence-against-women-africa
    “Kenya’s current law against wife-beating
    was prompted some years ago by a
    particularly dramatic incident
    of a common problem —
    one that is not unusual
    across Africa.”…

    South African men march against abuse o
    women and children – BBC
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39988267
    May 20, 2017
    “The protest in Pretoria
    follows a spate of sexual attacks
    and murders that has
    shocked the country.”…

    Domestic Violence and Poverty in Africa
    http://blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/domestic-violence-and-poverty-in-africa-when-the-husbands-beating-stick-is-like-butter
    Jan 18, 2016
    … “what has been happening to women’s
    attitudes and incidence towards domestic violence
    following Africa’s hopeful economic turn-around? …
    The link with a country’s overall level of development
    (or household income within countries) is weak;”…

    Facts and figures: Ending violence against women | UN Women
    http://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/facts-and-figures
    …” how psychological violence is measured across
    countries and cultures…
    … Child marriage is more common in West and Central Africa,
    where over 4 in 10 girls were married before age 18…”

    Violence against Women in Ghana:
    Unsafe in the Second Safest …
    https://www.cfr.org/blog/violence-against-women-ghana-unsafe-second-safest-country-africa
    Jul 28, 2016 …
    “making it the first nation in sub-Saharan Africa to shatter the chains” …

    The Epidemic of Violence against Women in Africa – Rainbo
    http://www.rainbo.org/the-epidemic-of-violence-against-women-in-africa/
    … “an extremely high rate of violence against women. The United Nations (UN) defines
    violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence”…

    Education Helps Break the Silence Around Domestic Violence in …
    https://www.newsdeeply.com/womenandgirls/articles/2017/04/27/education-helps-break-the-silence-around-domestic-violence-in-africa
    Apr 27, 2017
    …”more than 90 percent of women say a man is justified
    in hitting or beating his wife
    if he perceives she’s
    done something wrong.
    In more than a dozen African other countries” …

    Understanding Cultural Perspectives on Domestic Violence
    https://www.americanbar.org/newsletter/publications/cdv_enewsletter_home/vol13_expert1.html
    …”Despite the increasing number of African countries creating laws against
    domestic violence, women who are victims of abuse continue to face multiple
    barriers to accessing justice. These barriers are both systemic and cultural, and
    may continue to impact a woman’s willingness and ability to seek help even after
    she”…

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