Reading this, I am heartbroken and horrified by what Pete, Chasten, and their children have endured. My heart is with their family.
Political disagreements are inevitable in a democracy. But hatred, intimidation, and criminal attacks on someone or their family are never acceptable and should be unequivocally condemned by all of us.
This crosses every line.
Disagree on policy. Debate politics. Vote for whoever you want. But targeting someone’s family with a false report is dangerous, cruel, and completely indefensible.
Wow, @PeteButtigieg says someone reported a false claim about him that led to Child Protective Services showing up at his house and having to interview him and his young children separately over a 24-hour period.
"...this is the ugliest thing that has happened to me since my career in service began," he writes.
Pete and Chasten love their kids more than anything, and it's obvious to anyone who has spent even a couple minutes w/ the four of them together.
This is ugly - no one, including public figures and their FOUR year old children, should ever have to deal with something like this.
It is truly sickening that @PeteButtigieg & his four-year-old children were dragged into this vile smear.
Pete is the most loving and devoted father I know, & his children are SO lucky to have him.
No matter your politics, this should horrify you.
Police confirm that Pete Buttigieg was the target of a false report that he says forced him to spend a night away from his four-year-old twins. He described the 24-hour ordeal as “among the darkest hours of my life.”
https://t.co/7pDN9VADq0
This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious.
Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal. https://t.co/72wxaVLzVT
Today in Chicago, @BarackObama and @MichelleObama reminded Americans how we can be our best as a country, just as they did during their eight years in the White House.
It was a great honor to participate in today’s opening for the Obama Presidential Center, whose purpose of empowering people to make positive change is timely and needed.
say what you want about barbara, love her or hate her, she is an icon and a legend in these journalism streets as the first female anchor on a network news program.
this was one of the best episodes of the view and one of the most emotional.
such a beautiful send off. ❤️
Being an American isn't about your ancestry or ethnicity.
It's about fidelity to the meaning of this country - its revolutionary, threefold promise of political equality, economic opportunity, and personal liberty.
Buttigieg: We sit in a in a country that's got the wrong number of people on the Supreme Court, possibly the wrong number of representatives in the House of Representatives. And by the way, when you consider the disenfranchisement of the people of DC, we have the wrong number of states in the United States
The traditional “rules” for building American stability are fraying. Work hard. Get the degree. Buy the house. For generations those rules mostly worked. The problem is millions of Americans followed them and feel like the country stopped keeping its end of the bargain.