Mia Farrow digs up photo of Don Jr and Eric posing with dead leopard, asks Trump to 'tell your sons animal cruelty is now a crime'
Donald Trump signing into law the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act (PACT) that made intentional acts of animal cruelty a federal crime this past week was praised by both sides of the aisle, though actress Mia Farrow was quick to suggest that the president should start by looking at his own family.
Farrow posted a picture of Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump grinning and posing with a dead leopard during a hunting trip to Zimbabwe in 2010 and wrote, "@realDonaldTrump tell your sons animal cruelty is now a crime."
Another photo from the same time showed Donald Trump Jr. posing with an elephant tail in one hand and a knife in the other as he and Eric stood by the sides of a strung-up crocodile.
When they first surfaced in 2012, they had caused quite the uproar, with Newsweek reporting that at least one sponsor dropped ads off episodes of Trump's 'The Celebrity Apprentice.' However, it did not seem to bother Trump Jr., who responded to one critic by stating he was "not going to run and hide because the peta crazies don't like me." In another tweet, he said he had "no shame" about the pictures because "I HUNT & EAT GAME."
When one user wrote that Trump Jr. and Eric were "self-entitled a*******" who were "wasteful and disgusting," the former hit back and said none of the hunts were wasted as "the villagers were so happy for the meat which they don't often get to eat."
Speaking to TMZ at the time, Trump said, "My sons love hunting. They're hunters and they've become good at it. I am not a believer in hunting and I'm surprised they like it," adding that "Anything they did was 100 percent OK in terms of the hunting community."
Signing PACT into law this past Monday, November 25, the president said it was "important that we combat these heinous and sadistic acts of cruelty, which are totally unacceptable in a civilized society."
People convicted of acts of animal cruelty such as suffocating, burning, crushing and/or drowning animals now face up to seven years behind bars.
However, it does not outlaw hunting. In fact, PACT allows for "hunting, trapping, fishing, a sporting activity not otherwise prohibited by Federal law, predator control, or pest control" as well as "the slaughter of animals for food."