A Florida woman has gone viral after posting a tearful video confessing that she regrets voting for Donald Trump — a decision she believes contributed to her father’s detention by immigration authorities.
On 16 June 2025, Cynthia Hotom shared an emotional clip on social media in which she begged for the release of her terminally ill father. The man, who has lived in Florida for more than 30 years and spent most of his life working in construction to support his family, was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Only a matter of time before they decide she isnt a citizen either.
I hope she loses sleep over her guilt
LOL get fucked MAGAt traitor. Conservatives are so fucking selfish. She only cares now because it personally affected her. You think she’d have a change of heart if this didn’t happen? LOL of course she wouldn’t!
Conservatives were warned this would happen, that Trump would bring ruin. You reap what you sow, traitor. Now you get to wait for your dad to die in our homegrown concentration camps.
Dumbass.
You didn’t make a mistake. You knew what he was, and you insisted on voting for him. You chose to wilfully ignore the evidence. Now your dad’s gone.
Your epiphany was needed * before* you voted. Now the world is suffering because of idiots like you.
Good news, Honey. This is exactly what your Dear Leader promised. Enjoy your Christian Nation.
Raised in South Florida, Cynthia explained she was heavily influenced by conservative messaging and got caught up in right-wing rhetoric.
‘I believed the economy talk, the crime talk. I thought I was being practical,’ she said. ‘I forgot who I was, where I came from. I even stopped teaching my daughter Spanish because I thought we didn’t need it anymore.’
Online backlash after she shared her story forced her to reflect on her past beliefs. ‘It ripped the blindfold off,’ she admitted. ‘I finally saw how much I’d turned my back on my own people.’
turned my back on my own people
*everyone’s people
Wait, let me check something… here, maybe?
Hm no… how about…
Nope, still no sympathy. Get fucked, magat.
Looks like face is back on the menu, Leopards!
she regrets voting for Donald Trump — a decision she believes contributed to her father’s detention by immigration authorities
Belief is for things that can’t be proven. She knows voting for Trump led to this, but doesn’t want to admit that to herself.
You should read her words rather than just the intro to the article quoted in the OP.
‘I made that choice. And now I’m watching my dad suffer because of it,’ she responded.
She has admitted it. That’s not a free pass to make bad decisions, but most of the quotes in the article are about her trying to change and do better.
‘I’m learning everything I unlearned,’ she said. ‘And I’m going to fight for people who don’t have a voice.’
‘The guilt I carry is heavy, but I won’t stay silent anymore,’ she added.
‘We all make choices,’ she said. ‘But we can make better ones next.’
I definitely have conflicted feelings about this: it’s like when some former white supremacist changes their mind, gets the swastika tattoos removed and speaks out in support of anti-racism. They don’t deserve a medal for saying “Whoops, I fucked up” after fucking up extremely hard, but is telling them to fuck off serving the greater good, or just giving us an opportunity to feel superior?
She has zero sympathy from me. Let her denounce Trump all she wants but I have no desire to consider her an ally. She knew exactly the kind of man Trump was the first go around and still decided to ignore it all to either hurt the people she doesn’t like or believe the bullshit he said about improving the economy. If Trump weren’t around she’d still have the same nasty values that’d make her vote Republican.
If she hadn’t personally suffered for Trump’s policies, she’d still have the same nasty values.
What’s difficult for me is - now that she’s learned the Leopards-eating-peoples-faces party will happily eat her face - can she extend that lesson to the Leopards-eating-peoples-legs party or the Bears-eating-peoples-faces party. Because if these people have to personally experience each of the obvious and horrible consequences to realize that the next charismatic ghoul is a charismatic ghoul, then we are no closer to a better world.
You’re right and second chances are a real thing. But she saw Trump the first time. There were families ripped apart at the border and children who are still missing today. The person she gave a second chance thought it was okay to use live fire to disperse protestors and thought the George Floyd matches were racist against him. He ignored the safety of literally everyone when he tried to ignore COVID.
She doesn’t get off easy because his bullying was known and she wasn’t paying attention. That’s the lesson of our age: pay attention or pay for it.
They don’t deserve a medal for saying “Whoops, I fucked up” after fucking up extremely hard, but is telling them to fuck off serving the greater good, or just giving us an opportunity to feel superior?
Coddling their feelings of inadequacy lead to Trump being elected twice, so telling them to fuck off can’t be any worse.
If somebody leaves a cult and is taking steps to change their life, I believe they should be supported.
Yes consequences are a thing, but they are still a human being. The left needs all the support it can get. The more welcoming we are to people who realize their mistakes, the easier it will be to work towards a better future.
If they are not willing to change and learn after experiencing consequences, that is another matter.
The left needs to motivate the unmotivated, not waste time trying to peel off current or former right wing voters.
Exactly. People are capable of changing and the left is supposed to believe in redemption. This purity-testing dead-to-me bullshit every time someone forgets a pronoun or whatever is a cancer that’s setting our movement and message back every time we fall into the trap.
Changing yourself is hard. We all deserve acceptance and support when we pull it off, for the good of all.
Ffs, this is how you got where you are right now, you did this after the civil war, and because you did, you now have nazis. You aren’t ever going to learn this. lmfao.
This is a bad analogy. The person involved seems to be genuinely introspective and repentant. The south post civil war was unrepentant, and the north didn’t have the resolve to keep control, partly because the north was also racist as fuck.
I’ll bet she continues to vote Republican by focusing on blaming Trump instead of the party whose values he represents. She can say she fell for conservative talking points all she wants, but odds are she will latch on to some single issue crap and explain away why she just can’t vote for Dems because they aren’t perfect or something.
Enjoy your nazis.
“But I don’t get it, I’m a Republican! The rules aren’t supposed to apply to us! We just use the law to crush people we don’t like who aren’t Republicans!”
Anyways…
