Forgive and Forget

sorry, kids, this one’s for my niece back in Greenwich

CT Sen Richard Blumenthal Wants Kristi Noem To Just 'Put Aside' Concerns About Biden Admin's Role In Losing Track Of '300,000' Children

Blumenthal asked the nominee if she is willing to support efforts that help reunite migrant children who were separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, leading Noem to dispute the accusations that President-elect Donald Trump enacted a family separation policy during his first term. The nominee said that she is “alarmed” by the “over 300,000 children” who went missing under the Biden administration.

“Senator, the Trump administration never had a family separation policy,” Noem said. “They had a zero tolerance policy which said that our laws would be followed. What I’m alarmed by is the over 300,000 children that went missing during the Biden administration, and when we talk about children and what they’re potentially facing in this country, and the trafficking that’s going on, this administration’s lack of desire to find out where those children are or what they may be going through is alarming to me. So I want to stop that.”

“My time is expiring so I’m just gonna interrupt again with apologies to say, put aside, let’s put aside the labels, let’s put aside what happened in the past. There’s still 1,000 children who are separated and waiting to be reunited. I’d like your commitment that you’re going to continue the effort to reunite them with their parents,” Blumenthal said.

Blumenthal’s long-standing concern for children is both commendable and understandable, given Senator “I served in Vietnam”’s war record, and his service to children during that conflict. After using his family’s connections to receive five deferments, according to the NY Times, and with his local draft board still breathing down his neck, the young Harvard graduate managed to arrange a place in the Marine Reserve and be assigned to Washington, where he courageously and without regard for his own personal safety headed up the Corp’s local Toys for Tots campaign. Modestly, he has subsequently made little mention of the medals he was awarded during that deployment, and that itself speaks volumes for his character and endearing, self-effacing personality.

“It was on the mean streets of D.C. where I learned my compassion for the little ones”, the old fraud told FWIW, “but it was our incredible Vice President who taught me to strive for what can be, and live life unburdened by what has been. Mayorkis is history; the time to deliver toys to needy children is now, if we can find the little squirts.”