What do many lone attackers have in common? Domestic violence

"And yet this is almost never discussed, because there is no political capital to be gained by suggesting warped masculinity might be more to blame than Muslims. After all, domestic violence is a problem that spans cultures, and if President Trump were to try to ban men accused of domestic violence from entering America instead of Muslims, he would lose some major figures in his own White House. Steve Bannon was charged in 1996 with domestic violence, battery and trying to dissuade the victim – his wife, in other words – from testifying

The case was dropped when she didn’t turn up to court, and she later testified that Bannon had ordered her to leave town. Bannon denied the accusations. Trump chose Andrew Puzder to be his labor secretary, but Puzder withdrew his nomination last month, in part because of long-standing allegations from his ex-wife that he had physically abused her. Puzder denies the charges. Then there is Trump himself, who, according to 1990 sworn divorce deposition by his first wife, Ivana, tore out a handful of her hair and raped her because he was so furious that his “scalp reduction” operation had been more painful than she’d promised. Trump has always denied these allegations – both the abuse and that he had a scalp reduction operation – and Ivana later said she didn’t mean rape “in a literal or criminal sense”. But no one could explain away the tape in which Trump bragged about grabbing women “by the pussy”.

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What do many lone attackers have in common? Domestic violence | Hadley Freeman | Opinion | The Guardian