In This Episode
Trump hits a new low by tearing infants away from their parents at the border, and looks for new ways to obstruct justice as his campaign manager goes to jail. Then Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Fahrenthold talks to Tommy about his reporting on the Trump Foundation. To learn what you can do to help fight the separation of families at our border, pitch in here: go.crooked.com/families
Show Notes:
Family Separations:
- AP News: Hundreds of children wait in Border Patrol facility in Texas
- Washington Post: Family separations could double, says Border Patrol chief in Rio Grande Valley
- Washington Post: ‘Zero-tolerance policy means zero humanity:’ Democrats decry Trump immigration policy after tour of detention center
- Texas Monthly: Inside Texas’s New Tent City for Children
- CBS News: Inside look at Border Patrol facility in Texas housing hundreds of children
- CBS News: U.N. rights chief: Migrant family separations “unconscionable”
- Los Angeles Times: Was a breastfeeding infant really taken from an immigrant mother? The answer to this and other questions about families separated at the border
- Politico: ‘Grim sight’: Migrants await uncertain future at strained Border Patrol facility
- The Atlantic: Extinguishing the Beacon of America
- Washington Post: White House insists Democrats to blame for family separations, even as some in GOP urge Trump to reverse course
- New York Times: How Trump Came to Enforce a Practice of Separating Migrant Families
- Washington Post: Trump team cannot get its story straight on separating migrant families
- Washington Post: Trump cites as a negotiating tool his policy of separating immigrant children from their parents
What’s happening in Congress?:
- Think Progress: Feinstein bill would prohibit family separations at US-Mexico border
- Bloomberg: Trump’s Family Separations Bedevil Republicans as Public Outrage Grows
- Face The Nation: Senator Susan Collins Transcript
- Bangor Daily News: Susan Collins opposes bill focused on stopping taking children from asylum seekers
- CNN: These Republicans have criticized Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy
- Axios: The House GOP faces two immigration votes this week
- Vox: The House is set to debate 2 sweeping immigration bills that don’t address family separation
- Politico: Trump to huddle with House Republicans on immigration
- Washington Post: Democrats intensify fight for immigrant children — and bludgeon Trump and Republicans ahead of midterms
- NYT: Leading Republicans Join Democrats in Pushing Trump to Halt Family Separations
- Wall Street Journal: Trump Policy of Separating Migrant Families Threatens to Engulf Immigration Talks
- Washington Post: Paul Ryan’s cheery Father’s Day message is not playing well amid the child detainment crisis
- CNN: Democratic congressman O’Rourke: Family separation ‘on all of us’
- Dallas Morning News: Ted Cruz again defends family separation, as Beto O’Rourke plans vigil at Tornillo tent camp
- Politico: Pressure mounts for Trump to address family separations at border
What are the politics of this right now?
Laura Bush /GOPers/faith leaders/others who are opposed:
- Washington Post: Opinion: Laura Bush: Separating children from their parents at the border ‘breaks my heart’
- New York Times: Leading Republicans Join Democrats in Pushing Trump to Halt Family Separations
- Axios: Melania Trump takes on family separation border policy
What can we do?:
- Slate: Here’s How You Can Help Fight Family Separation at the Border
- The ACLU is litigating this policy in California
- The American Immigration Lawyers Association
- Catholic Legal Immigration Network
- American Immigration Council
- Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services
- American Immigration Lawyers Association
- The Florence Project
- Human Rights First
- Kids in Need of Defense
- The Legal Aid Justice Center
- Pueblo Sin Fronteras
- RAICES
- The Texas Civil Rights Project
- Together Rising
- Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project
- Women’s Refugee Commission
- CLINIC’s Defending Vulnerable Populations
- American Immigrant Representation Project
- CASA
- Freedom for Immigrants
- Michigan Immigrant Rights Center
- Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
- Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights
- International Refugee Assistance Project
- ActBlue has aggregated many of these groups under a single button.
Trump Investigation:
- New York Times: Judge Orders Paul Manafort Jailed Before Trial, Citing New Obstruction Charges
- Vox: 24 hours in Michael Cohen’s many legal trouble
- Vox: Reports suggest Michael Cohen is thinking of flipping
- ABC News: Roger Stone ‘not concerned’ he failed to tell Congress about 2016 Russia contact
- Washington Post: Trump associate Roger Stone reveals new contact with Russian national during 2016 campaign
- Washington Post: ‘Prepared for war’: As Mueller moves to finalize obstruction report, Trump’s allies ready for political battle
- Vox: Robert Mueller won’t save us
Trump, Giuliani, and Fox all try to make the IG report happen:
- Washington Post: Trump claims he’s ‘totally exonerated’ by Justice report, and that FBI was ‘plotting against my election’
- Slate: Trump’s Damning Doublespeak
Gowdy and the House GOP threaten Wray and the DOJ for more documents:
- Politico: DOJ, House GOP lurch toward confrontation in document fight
- Huffington Post: Trey Gowdy Threatens DOJ, FBI Officials Over Clinton Probe Documents
- Bloomberg: House Republicans Threaten Floor Action Over FBI, DOJ Subpoenas
- Vox: Republicans say the IG report shows evidence of political bias in FBI’s Clinton investigation
David Fahrenthold:
- Washington Post: York files civil suit against President Trump, alleging his charity engaged in ‘illegal conduct’
- Vox: “Repeated and willful self-dealing”: 5 details from the New York attorney general lawsuit against the Trump Foundation
- New York Times: Will the Justice Department Investigate the Trump Foundation?
- New York Times: How the I.R.S. Could Punish Trump and His Foundation
- New York Times: Opinion: Why the I.R.S. Should Go After Trump
- The Atlantic: The Disastrous Legal Implications of the Trump Foundation’s Activities
- Washington Post: Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump made at least $82 million in outside income last year while serving in the White House, filings show
- Washington Post: As the ‘King of Debt,’ Trump borrowed to build his empire. Then he began spending hundreds of millions in cash
- Washington Post Magazine: David Fahrenthold tells the behind-the-scenes story of his year covering Trump
