*It should come as no surprise that Trump flunky Corey Lewandowski had a totally uncaring and callous response to a story about a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome being taken from her mother at the border … and it set off a fiery live TV exchange.
If you missed it, Trump’s former campaign manager was a guest on Fox News Tuesday afternoon along with Zac Petkanas, a former senior DNC adviser. The 2 got into a heated argument after Lewandowski dropped a “Womp, womp” about the disabled immigrant child being separated from her mom and sent to a detention facility.
Petkanas was beyond incensed, screaming, “How dare you, sir?!” repeatedly … while Lewandowski tried to shout him down.
The country’s immigration policy has been the hot-button topic of the month, and clearly … this isn’t going to cool it off.
In related news concerning the border crisis, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow broke down while trying to read an Associated Press story about infants and toddlers being taken from their parents at the southern border and sent to what is being referred to as “tender age” shelters.
After trying to get through the first couple of sentences she stopped, “I’m sorry. I think I’m going to have to hand this off,” ending her segment.
Rachel issued an apology on Twitter with a link to the story saying:
“Again, I apologize for losing it there for a moment. Not the way I intended that to go, not by a mile.”
“Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents to at least three “tender age” shelters in South Texas…
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— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 20, 2018
“Decades after the nation’s child welfare system ended the use of orphanages over concerns about the lasting trauma to children, the administration is standing up new institutions to hold Central American toddlers that the government separated from their parents…
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— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 20, 2018
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