This is disgusting…
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has mocked a story about a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome who was separated from her mother at the U.S.-Mexico border due to the Trump Administration’s “zero tolerance” policy on immigration.
When Democratic strategist Zac Petkanas discussed a story about the girl with Down syndrome who had been taken away from her mother at the border, Lewandowski interrupted saying: “Womp, womp.”
“I read about a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome who is taken from her mother and put in a cage,” Petkanas said.
To which Lewandowski said: “Womp, womp.”
Check out the scarcely-beliveable clip below…
you sitting down?
here’s Corey Lewandowski mockingly saying “womp womp” to the story of a 10-year-old girl with Down Syndrome who was separated from her mother at the border.
— j.d. durkin (@jd_durkin) June 20, 2018
The story was initially shared by Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray, who said that this story was particularly painful.
Since last month, 2,342 children, have been separated from their families, and put in the government’s care under President Trump’s new “zero tolerance” policy, according to federal officials.
The US President has said that he sees no other option to family separations to ensure that illegal immigrants don’t “pour into” the US and “infest” the country.
In other news, Fox News has claimed that the children being separated from their parents are essentially being sent to “summer camps”.
Laura Ingraham describes the detention facilities where children are sent after being forcibly separated from their parents as "essentially summer camps." pic.twitter.com/K6ao3lbS6Q
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 19, 2018
This is despite the leaked audio released recently where border patrol agents can be heard mocking children who have been separated from their parents.
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