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4.26.25 · Washington Post

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the reading of two days Washington Post. It
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is Saturday, April twenty six, of twenty twenty five. Your
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reader is Alice Stainer, with the reminder that RADIOI is
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an organization for those blind or with other difficulties in
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being able to hold or read printed materials. I will
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start with the front page of today's Washington Post, and
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on the left hand side at the top is a
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large picture of thousands of people lined up in Saint
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Peter's Square in Vatican City on Friday to view the
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body of Pope Francis. His view will will be Saturday,
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and it is going on right now in Rome. The
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article is entitled Pope President had Complicated Ties by Martine Powers.
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To the right of that well the scripture a beautiful
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blue sky with clouds on it on the arcade around
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Saint Peter's Square, which makes it a circle instead of
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a square in the way, But the lineup is one
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lady with a red parasol to protect it from the sun.
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But there are just people, throngs of people in blue
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jeans and jackets, all in a line. Or actually it's
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not a line. It's just a large crowd of people
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moving forward on the right to that is. Department of
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Justice charges judge with obstructing immigrant arrest, accused of misdirecting
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ICE agents Wisconsin. Case escalates offensive against judiciary, but Patrick
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Marley and Jeremy Roebuck. Below that, giant tent rises to
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hose detained immigrants semi permanent space built in Florida to
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relieve crowded ice facilities by Douglas McMillan. And to the
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left below the fold and below the picture and the
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article on Pope Fransis, Europe locks arms with Kiev, but
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urges it to bend steadfast support gives Zelensky some space
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in face of US demands by Steve Hendricks and Storhan O'Brady.
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Next to that is a picture of an NFL player
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became a monster and his daughter looks for answers. Brown's
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life descended into illness and violence by Kent Barb at
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vann Arba. And there's a picture of a woman with
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brown on her shirt being held by I assume that's
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her father. Yes, she's Jaden Brown, and her father what's
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his name, Corwin Brown, his arms around her and around
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his number looks like number forty four, and she looks
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like she's trying to take a selfie with him, and
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then to the far right recordings. Contradict apology from Ed Martin,
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He says he was unaware of statements by Nazi's sympathizer.
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He praised Spencer s Hussu and Tom Jackman. I will
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start with the Pope Francis article, since that is of
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such importance today and a man of humbleness and of
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the people, Pope France. This often criticized Trump, but he
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knew how to charm him too. President Donald Trump had
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a complicated relationship with Pope Francis, whose funeral he plans
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to attend Saturday. And there is a picture of President
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Donald Trump and First Lady Milania meeting Pope Francis at
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the Vatican in twenty seventeen. Milania is in black and
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she has a mantilla on, and President Trump is in
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his dark blue suit with the thing his standard blue
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and white tie, and Pope Francis is in his white robes.
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And above a picture of the It's not the Transfiguration
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but in the Vatican by Martine Powers. In twenty seventeen,
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Pope Francis met President Donald Trump for the first and
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only time and diffused months of tension with the mention
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of a Slovenian pastry. During that meeting, which included some
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of Trump's family, the Pope shook the hand of First
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Lady Milania Trump. Then he smiled and gestured over to
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her husband. What do you give him to eat? Francis
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said through an interpretertka potica, Milania Trump repeated back. Then,
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appearing to realize that Pope was referring to a traditional
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baked roll from her homeland, she broke into a grin.
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Her husband laughed too. Yes. The moment captured Trump's complicated
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relationship with Francis, who died Monday. Over the course of
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the past decade, Trump, Pope Francis, and President Trump came
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to be ideological adversaries, symbols of polar opposite world views,
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but at times Trump was charmed by Francis and by
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the authenticity and immense popularity his papacy represented the complexity
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of that relationship will be on display Saturday, when Trump
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and the First Lady planned to be in Rome to
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attend Pope Francis's funeral at the Vatican. We look forward
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to being there, Trump posted Monday afternoon on truth social
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Trump will be the second sitting US president to attend
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the funeral of a pope, after George W. Bush traveled
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to the Vatican in two thousand and five to attend
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the funeral of Pope John Paul the Second. The Pope's
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brand of progressive Catholicism and Trump's populous political movement ran
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on parallel tracks before becoming president and Pope. Trump and
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Francis were both relative outsiders who came to prominence with
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a promise to shake up the status quo. They shared
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a natural ability to excite a crowd to speak into
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wrecked and plain ways that built loyalty and adolation among
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their followers. Francis, however, avoided pomp and displays of wealth
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and committed his papacy to protecting migrants as well as
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other vulnerable populations. Meanwhile, Trump embraced a lifestyle of luxury. Recently,
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he added new gold ornaments to the Oval office and
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led a political rumor centered around harsh treatment of unauthorized immigrants.
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The Pope Francis pontificate has overlapped almost exactly with the
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age of Donald Trump, said Massimo Fagioli, a professor of
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theology and religious studies at Villanova University. Pope Francis has
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been the most distinct moral voice talking about migration, the environment,
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economic justice, providing a dissenting narrative from what was coming
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from trump Ism. Trump's differences with Francis led to fiery
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clashes between the two men even before Trump was elected president.
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In February twenty sixteen, during a trip to Mexico, Francis
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stopped at the border to pray for migrants who died
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trying to reach the United States. Later, Francis spoke to
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reporters about harsh anti migration proposals in the US. A
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person who thinks only about building walls wherever they may
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be and not building bridges is not Christian. This is
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not in the Gospel, Francis told reporters. He continued, later,
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what would I advise to vote or not to vote?
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I would not get mixed up in that. I would
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only say this man is not a Christian if that
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is what he says. Reporters interpreted the Pontiff's comments, delivered
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just two days before the South Carolina primary, as a
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rebuke of then candidate Trump's proposals for border walls and
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mass deportations. Shortly after, Trump responded from a campaign rally
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in South Carolina. He was surprised at being signaled out
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by the Pope. As I'm walking up here, they said,
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mister Trump, the Pope made a statement about you. I
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said the Pope. I said, I like the Pope. Was
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it good at that? Because if it's good, I liked
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the Pope. The Pope's comments were not good, Trump told
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the crode he actually said it. Then maybe I'm not
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a good Christian or something. It's unbelievable, which is really
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not a nice thing to say, Trump said. In later statements,
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Trump said it was disgraceful for a religious leader to
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question someone's faith. He also speculated that the Pope had
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been manipulated by the Mexican government and that he would
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regret his remarks if the Vatican came the target of tourism.
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If and when the Vatican is attacked by the Isis,
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which is everyone knows is Isis' ultimate trophy, I can
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promise you that the Pope would only have wished and
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prayed that Donald Trump would have been president. Trump said.
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The back and forth was the first salvo in a
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series of public disagreements about Trump's policies. They embodied two
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completely different views of world history and of the place
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of America in the world. Vijilie said, Donald Trump is
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about giving back to America, to white America a certain
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role in the world, and Francis comes from a world
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that thinks and feels that things have to change because
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the colonial era is over. According to Ken Hackett, who
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served as the US ambassador to the Holy See during
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President Barack Obama's second term, Francis's decision to speak out
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against the political situation in the US was not with
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that precedent. Pope John Paul the Second, for example, was
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often critical of communist governments and the Soviet Union. Popes
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are not afraid to speak. My experience is they look
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at the time to speak, and they do it forthrightly, honestly,
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and directly, Hackett said. After Trump was elected in twenty sixteen,
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many people were surprised when the White House announced that
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Trump and his family would be traveling to the Vatican
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to meet the Pope, given the apparent antipathy between the
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two leaders, Trump's evenness for a meeting may have been
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a recognition of the pomps, pontiffs and almost popularity and
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worldwide influence. Less than two years earlier, Francis had been
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met with massive crowds and enthusiasm during a six day
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multi city tour of the US. It was interesting that
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Trump had to have the meetings so early in his presidency.
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Hackett said. He speculated that the President wanted to tick
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that box. There was one of the most popular people
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in the world, and he wanted to get a picture
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with him. And there is now a picture of the
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Trumps arriving at the Vatican San Demaso Courtyard for his
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private audience with Francis in twenty seventeen, and he's walking
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by some of the beekeepers. From the stance of the
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Pope and his advisors, the Trump Francis confab was in
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keeping with a longtime Vatican policy always take the meeting
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from the Vatican side. They dealt with world leaders, whoever
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they are, said John Carr, founder of the Initiative on
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Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University. They
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met with controversial presidential Paulstinian political leader Yasser Airfat. They
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met with people that I disagree with the Pope very
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much on abortion. They're used to dealing with people who
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have differences with and where they can find common ground,
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that's a good thing. Some journalists forecast that the twenty
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seventeen meeting would be strained, and at times there was
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noticeable awkwardness. A photo that went viral on social media
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showed an unsmiling Francis standing next to a grinning Trump,
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but according to reports at the time, the Pope loosened
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up as the visit went on. The two leaders talked
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meaningfully about international affairs, the situation in the Middle East,
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and the protection of Christian communities. They also exchanged gifts.
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The Trump presented the poth with a set of first
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edition books by Martin Luther King Junior. The Pope gifted
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Trump with copies of his own writing about inclusion, forgiveness,
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and humanity's responsibility to tackle climate change, as well as
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a large medallion symbolizing peace. Trump came away from the
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meeting with positive words honor of a lifetime to media's holiness.
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Pope Francis, I leave the Vatican more determined than ever
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to pursue peace in our world, Trump tweeted at the time.
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The meeting was considered a success, but it didn't prevent
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Francis from continuing to be an outspoken critic of Trump's
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administration policies. Earlier that year, Francis said he worried Trump's
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immigration policies we result in children separated from their families,
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and he questioned whether Trump really embodied what it meant
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to be pro life. If he is a good pro
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life believer, he must understand that family is the cradle
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of life in one must defend its unity, Francis said.
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In twenty nineteen, when asked about a border wall being
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erected between the US and Mexico, Francis described its as
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a foolish endeavor motivated by American's fear of migrants. According
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to the Now Associated Press, he said, it is a
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fear that makes us crazy. And last year, two months
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before the presidential election, the Pope criticized both President and
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then Vice President Kamela Harris. Neither of them could be
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considered pro life, he said, because Trump was cruel to
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immigrants and Harris was pro abortion. One must choose the
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less to evil, Which is the less to evil that
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lady or that gentleman, I don't know, Francis said at
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the time, each person must think and decide according to
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his her own or her own conscience. Francis's critiques of
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Trump policies continued into Trump's second term. In February, the
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Pope wrote a letter to US Catholic bishops arguing that
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mass deportations were counted to Catholic chieftjeings. I exhort all
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the faithful of the Catholic Church not to give in
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to narratives that discriminate against, or cause unnecessary suffering to
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our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters. Francis wrote at
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the time that kind of document is something you see
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once in a century, Vagiolie said, because it was viewed
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as a thinly veiled reprimand of Vice President J. D.
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Vance and the shift in US Catholic culture that Vance represents.
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On a trip to the Vatican last week, Dvance met
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with the Pope for a few minutes, becoming one of
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the few people to spend time with Francis on the
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last full day of his life. Relations between the Vatican
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and the US government have never been so troubled as
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they are now, Vagiolie said. Vatican officials are concerned about
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the Trump administration's decision to cut global humanitarian aid and
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its demonstrated willingness to commitments to European allies. The Vatican's
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relationship with the US may turn out to be a
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point of consideration in the process of selecting a new Pope.
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Francis his successor will probably be tasked with trying to
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find ways to bring Trump in the US government back
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into the fold of the global world order. The Vatican
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has soft power, and in many ways the United States
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is abandoning soft power. Will they recognize the importance of
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the soft power of the Church and of the Pope
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or will they dismiss that too. Georgetown's car said. Wisconsin
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judge arrested by FBI charged with obstructing immigrant arrest. Charging
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Milwaukee County's Circuits judge Hannah Dugan escalates the Trump administration's
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battle with local officials over immigration enforcement. Patrick Marley and
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Jeremy Roebuck out of Milwaukee. The Justice Department has charged
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a wisconsint judge with obstructing an immigration arrest operation, a
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significant escalation of Trump administration threats to target local officials
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accused of interfering with immigration enforcement. FBI Director Cash Battel
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announced the arrest of Milwaukee County's Circuit judge Hannah Duban
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on the social media platform x accusing her of intentionally
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misdirecting federal agents as they sought to detain an immigrant
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who is set to appear for an unrelated proceeding last
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week in court Bowling Stranding, the government said, the judge
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sent the federal agents away from that hearing, then escorted
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the man and his lawyer out of her courtroom through
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a private exit. Thankfully, our agents chased down the purple
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foot and he's been in customs these sense, but the
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judge's obstruction created increased danger to the public, Bettel wrote.
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Duben was charged with obstruction and concealing a person from
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arrest and was released on her own recognizance pending additional
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court proceedings. Miss Dugan wholeheartedly regrets. In protest to her arrest,
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one of her attorneys, Craig Mastio, told US Magistrate Judge
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Stephen de Drees during a brief appearance Friday in federal
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court in Milwaukee, it was not made in the interest
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of public safety. Stephen M. Riskupik, another attorney representing the judge,
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said in a statement that she will defend herself rigorously
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and looks forward to being exonerated. Dugan supporters gathered outside
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the federal courthouse in protest, including Susan Battilla, a retired
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school nurse who held a handmade free Judge Dugan sign
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and said she was chilled to the bone by the
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judges arrest. Milwaukee County Executive David Crawley, Democrat, described the
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case against Dugan as a large performative showing of law
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enforcement officials and accused the Trump administration of trying to
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install fear and hostility across our community. The Tyler August,
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the Republican majority leader of the Wisconsin State Assembly, praised
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the FBI in a statement and said Republicans in his
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chamber would act decisively if these serious allegations are confirmed.
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Lawmakers in Wisconsin have the power to remove state judges.
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Trump officials took to social media and the airwaves to
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trumpet Duggan's arrest as a significant step in their efforts
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to strike back against judges they've labeled activist. She's protecting
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a criminal defendant of crimes, of the victims of crime.
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She put the lives of our law enforcement officers at risk,
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Attorney General Pam Bindy said in an interview on the
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Fox News show America reports. Bondy also highlighted the arrest
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on obstruction charges Thursday of a former magistrate judge in
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New Mexico who resigned after being accused of harboring in
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his home an alleged member of the Venezuelan Tranto Utragoat gang.
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These judges think they're above the law. They're not, Bundy said,
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we will come after you and prosecute you. We will
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find you. Stephen Miller, the White As Deputy Chief of Staff,
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set on social media, no one is above the law.
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Justice Department officials have directed federal prosecutors nationwide to investigate
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and potentially large state and local officials who impede the
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president's immigration crackdown. The Trump administration has also openly clashed
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with state and federal judges, who have sought to restrain
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some of the government's most aggressive deportation and enforcement efforts.
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Judges in some jurisdictions have criticized efforts by immigration and
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Customs enforcement agents to locate and detain immigrants at local courthouses,
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saying the practice makes it more difficult to ensure undocumented
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immigrants will show up for court proceedings in which they
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are victims. Defendants or witnesses. Even if you are an
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undocumented immigrant, we need you to be able to understand
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that this is a safe space for us, Crawley said
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at a news conference by the afternoon. They may be
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a witness in a crime, they may be a victim
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in a crime, and if they are witness, for example,
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we need them to be able to come into this
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building fel safe, to be able to talk to actually
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be a witness. But immigration authorities say courthouses provided a
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unique setting where they can be certain their targets are
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scheduled to show up at a specific time and date
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and will have already undergone security screening. Milwaukee's Ice Office,
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which has made other arrests at Dugan's court host this year,
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has adopted a policy to detain only undocumented immigrants who
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are due in court for alleged crimes, and not to
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pursue those who may be in court as witnesses or victims.
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According to the Affidavid file in Dugan's case, a Milwaukee
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based FBI agent said in the criminal complaint that multiple
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witnesses described the judge as visibly upset when she learned
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on April eighteenth that federal agents were waiting outside her
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courtroom to hear west Eduardo Fleesuez, a thirty Yearero Mexican national,
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set to appea for her on misdemeanor state battery charges.
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Dugan allegedly confronted the agents in the hallway, according to
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the complaint, when they told her they had an administrative
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warrant to detain Ruez, she instructed them to speak to
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the court's chief judge. While the agents were away, The
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affidated says Dugan postponed Flores's hearing and directed him and
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his lawyer to lead through a private jury room exit
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instead of the public entryway. The agents later spot at
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for As Ruez outside the building. A footchase ensued. The
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agents pursued Flores Ruiz for the entire length of the courthouse,
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the complaint said. Immigration officials said Flores Ruiz had previously
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been deported to Mexico in twenty thirteen. The date he
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re entered the country was not included in court records.
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Bondi on Fox said the state domestic violence case he
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was facing involved in a ledge of sault on a
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man and woman, both of whom were injured, and take
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him to a hospital. This judge's actions to shield and
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accused a violent criminal, illegal alien from justices. Shocking and shameful.
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We are thankful for our partners at the FBIF by
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helping remove this accused criminal from American streets, Assistant Department
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of Homeland Securities Secretary Trishia McLachlan said in a statement.
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During Trump's first term, in twenty eighteen, the Justice Department
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charged the judge and court officer in Massachusetts with helping
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an undocumented if the immigrant escape from a court host
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in Newton. Prosecutors said then that as ICE agents arrived
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to detain the man, Judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph directed
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him to leave through the court host basement, where he
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was led out the back door as the agents waited
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for him in the lobby. The federal charges were dropped
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in twenty twenty two as part of an agreement that
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required Joseph to refer herself to the Massachusetts Commission on
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Judicial CARNDUT, the body in charge of judicial discipline in
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the state. Within days of Trump's return to the White
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House in January, a top Justice Department official directed federal
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prosecutors nationwide to investigate and potentially charged state and local
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officials who impede the president's immigration enforcement agenda. Federal law
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prohibits state and local actors from resisting, obstructing, and otherwise
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failing to comply with lawful immigration related commands, wrote and
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be above then acting Deputy Attorney General. Dugan won her
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seat on the Milwaukee County bench in twenty sixteen, defeating
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a judge who had been appointed in the heavily democratic
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county by then Governor Scott Walker, Republican. Before she was
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a judge, Dugan worked as a poverty attorney and executive
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director of the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.
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Friday afternoon, hours after her arrest, a sign remained hung
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on the door to or a courtroom. It instructed anyone
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who feels unsafe coming to courtroom six fifteen to contact
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a County of Court clerk to request an online hearing.
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Giant tent rises in Florida to host hundreds of detained immigrants.
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The makeshift hosing is the latest effort to ease crowding
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as the Trump administration ramps up arrests. By Douglas McMillan,
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an emigration and Customs enforcement facility in Miami plans to
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move up to four hundred immigrant detainees into a large
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tent that was erected in recent weeks to accommodate a
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surgeon population of migrants, said Representative Fredrika S. Wilson, Democrat
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of Florida, who turned toward the facility Thursday. The soft
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sided structure at Miami's Chrome North Service Processing syentum contained cots, televisions,
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ventilation pipes, and pile flooring, Wilson and her communications director
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said in interviews with The Washington Post. An ICE represented
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to told her the facility could host two hundred people
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on an upstairs level and two hundred people on a
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downstairs level, and that the agency planned to begin moving
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people into the structure on Friday. She said. The spokesman
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for ICE did not immediately respond to questions from the Post,
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including how long people may be held in the tent
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and whether the facility has increased its staff to meet
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its needs. There is a little precedent for ICE housing
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detainees in temporary structures in the United States, said units Cho,
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an attorney who advocates for emigrants detainees at the American
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Civil Liberties Union's National Prison Project. US Customs and Voter
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Protection in the Office for Refugee Resettlement had used soft
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sided facilities, but those have typically been used for very
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short term detention, she said. The tent at Kromme is
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the latest evidence of the government's struggle to accommodate the
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nearly fifty thousand immigrants currently detained by ICE. A nationwide
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uptick and arrest amid President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal
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emigration has led to many detention facilities reaching or exceeding capacity,
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with reports of people sleeping on floors and going days
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without proper medical attention. The Post reporting has shown to
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meet Vodozart tom Holman's goal of one hundred thousand detention
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beds ices contracting with county jails and paying millions of
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dollars to reopen shuttered private prisons. This month, it requested
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permission to bypass contracting rules to fast track new agreements
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for private facilities in California, Michigan and other states, citing
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the Southern voter emergency and the urgent need to detain
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aliens at large that posed threats to national security and
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public safety. At chrome, immigrant detainees were already being held
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in rooms that were never designed for long term detention.
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Waiting hours to use the bathrooms or see their lawyers,
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and going weeks without showers, according to interviews with emigration
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attorneys and advocates who have visited the facility. Reports about
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these conditions led a group of post Democrats to write
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a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Christy L. Non, urging
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her too provide Congress with the detailed plan for how
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DHS will restore humane conditions for detained migrants and provide
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trains perisy in detention operations. Wilson, one of the signatories
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of the April eighth letter, said she arranged her visit
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to Chrome about two weeks ago to see the conditions
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and meet with some of her constituents being held there,
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including a foreign barn Us of Florida University of Florida
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student who was reportedly arrested for driving with an expired
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license and vehicle registration. Most of the people who I saw,
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and most of the people we ran into, are not criminals.
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They are just people who have been here working and
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are undocumented. That's the sad part about it, Wilson said.
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The congresswoman said she could smell fresh paint during her visit,
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which she took as a sign that the facility had
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prepared for her arrival. ICE representatives told of the constituents
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she planned to meet with, including the University of Florida's
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student we're no longer being hosed at the facility. Chrome,
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a former military base reopened as an emigration detention center
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during the nineteen eighties. ICE oversees the facility's operations and
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relies on private contractors for services, including guards. It's difficult
32:13
to know which ICE detention centers are at or over
32:17
capacity because the government does not share day to day
32:21
population numbers for individual facilities. Based on the figures it
32:26
does report averages covering the entire physical year. Since October first,
32:32
Chrome and at least four the ICE facilities already have
32:35
a higher average daily population than their contracted capacities. ICE
32:41
holds migrants in at least one hundred and forty two facilities,
32:45
up from one hundred and fifteen when Trump took office,
32:49
according to reports on the agency's website. In a statement
32:53
to the Post last week, I said it has increased
32:56
its available detention capacity to operate fifty nine thousand, nine
33:02
hundred and sixteen beds. Nets were quied with the time
33:07
to say whether this figure includes newly contracted facilities that
33:10
have yet to open. Trump set a goal of detaining
33:14
thirty thousand migrants at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, but
33:19
so far the facility has been used only sparingly. Sidelike
33:24
images revealed that there were about one hundred and ninety
33:27
five tents on the base. In March, Europe backs Ukraine
33:33
while still easing it toward the US peace deal with
33:37
its strong public support of Ukraine. Europe seeks to give
33:41
Zelensky some space in the face of US demands while
33:45
still urging compromises, and there is a picture of British
33:50
Prime Minister kir Starmer addressing the crew of British aircraft
33:55
carrier HMS Prince of Wales in front of an F
33:59
thirty five fighter aircraft in the hangar of the aircraft carrier.
34:06
By Steve Hendrix and Shouvon O'Grady out of London. European
34:12
leaders are straining to maintain a delicate diplomatic balance his
34:16
attempts to reach a peace deal in Ukraine near a
34:19
critical junctup expressing full throated backing for Ukrainian President Volodimir
34:25
Zelenski even as they try to edge him closer to
34:29
accepting some of the controversial terms being pushed by President
34:33
Donald Trump. French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister
34:38
Keir Starmer in particular have backed Zelensky's demands for an
34:43
unconditional cease file, which macarl said this week the Kriminlin
34:48
must accept to date. President Russian President Vladimir Putin, who
34:54
won Friday, met for roughly three hours with Trump's Special
34:57
envoy Steve Whitkoff, has rejected a bull truths. Europe is
35:02
also supporting Zelynxi's insistence that a deal must include significant
35:07
security guarantees for Ukraine. This deadfast support for Ukraine has
35:12
given Key, which is reluctant to set off a new
35:15
round of tensions with Washington, so much needed space to
35:18
push back on the White House. The support comes even
35:22
as Europe acknowledges privately that it will not be able
35:25
to fully make up for US support if the White
35:28
House pulls the plug on Ukraine. Europe this week proposed
35:33
a new set of terms to counter a US proposal
35:36
given to Ukraine last week, which have been described as
35:39
the final US offer for a deal. Those terms were
35:43
widely viewed by Ukrainians and Europeans as heavily favoring Russia.
35:49
The deal would have involved US recognition of Russia's illegal
35:53
annexation of Crimea and the handover of Moscow. Handover too
35:59
Moscow of the areas it controls in exchange for stopping
36:03
further attacks, as well as the immediate lifting of sanctions
36:08
on Russia. European leaders, who were set to host high
36:13
level talks in London on Wednesday before two of three
36:17
top US officials dropped out, added many different elements to
36:21
the deal, including a full cease fire to start and
36:25
robot security guarantees specifically from the United States. Europe also
36:31
wants frozen Russian assets to fund reconstruction in Ukraine and
36:35
only the gradual lifting of sanctions on Moscow if the
36:39
peace deal is honored. The details of both office were
36:43
first reported by Ruters on Friday or Routers on Friday
36:48
that Washington Post confirmed their accuracy, with two officials briefed
36:51
on negotiations. Europe's counter offer represents a broader fear across
36:57
the continent than an unpredictable White House could suddenly cancel
37:01
all support to Ukraine, sending Europe scrambling to help Ukraine
37:05
stave off the Russian advance on its own. Despite widespread
37:10
European support for Kiev's cause, Europe is not immediately able
37:16
to replace the flow of all weaponry and intelligence that
37:19
Ukraine needs to avoid major battle theo losses. Europe would
37:24
especially struggle to replace the United States air defense systems
37:28
that are the most effective and intercepting Russian missiles. Official
37:33
said Ukraine is already without adequate supplies to defended cities,
37:38
as demonstrated and deadly attacks from Kiev, Sumi, Kirivri and
37:44
other major cities in recent weeks for Europe and Ukraine.
37:48
One Western official said it is not only reasonable but
37:52
necessary to push back on some elements of the US proposal,
37:56
as it gives Ukraine practically very little and Russia a lot.
38:02
European officials are trying to edge Washington toward a more
38:06
reasonable agreement for Ukraine and to sign into the ID
38:10
onto the idea that a ceasefire is an essential for
38:13
a step. Calls for such as ceasefire were amplified after
38:18
Russian Mischel strike hit an apartment building in Kiev on Thursday,
38:22
killing at least twelve people. Written Starmer has pushed back
38:27
on Trump's efforts to pin snags in the peace process
38:31
on Ukraine, and he has refused to endorse any formal
38:35
recognition of CRIMEA as Russian written also announced Thursday a
38:39
new round of sanctions on Russia, banning the transfer of
38:43
soft of energy, software, and even video game controllers that
38:48
can be used to pilot drones. Mediators are struggling to
38:52
keep the sides talking. On the Ukrainian side, the key
38:56
requirements of any deal are strong security guarantees and minimizing
39:01
any territorial concessions. We're trying to find a very narrow
39:07
landing strip here, said one diplomat directly involved in discussions, who,
39:12
like others interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition
39:15
of anonymity to discuss sensitive deliberations. We have to avoid
39:21
a position where Ukrainian red lines are so breached they
39:25
walk away. We think we're getting there. An official briefed
39:29
on the talks in Ukraine is worried about what the
39:33
US will do. Europeans see Moscow's influence in Washington and
39:37
its tendency to make ancient territory claims to justify modern
39:42
military aggression as a looming threat. Maybe it sounds like
39:47
old fair tales to some Americans that here in Europe
39:50
it means that Russia has not forgotten how to divide.
39:55
Europeans help Ukraine a lot, but they an't worried too,
39:59
the officials said. At the same time, Europeans are urging
40:03
Zelensky to acknowledge the likelihood that Ukraine will have to
40:07
give up territory as part of an accord. They made
40:10
progress in that effort Wednesday. One official said there is
40:14
a growing sense among negotiators that Ukraine may be willing
40:18
to endure effective Russian control of Crimea if KIV is
40:22
not required to recognize it legally. Many Ukrainians do not
40:27
want to rule like the possibility of retaking the territory
40:30
even in the distant future, but even such a compromise
40:35
remains distasteful to Ukraine, which sees it as setting a
40:39
dangerous precedent for Putin to expect eventual similar recognition for
40:43
other Ukrainian regions he has illegally seized. The official briefed
40:49
on the talk said Europe is trying to help engage
40:52
everyone with trunk normally and speed up their military production,
40:57
but it takes time. That while US support is necessary.
41:02
It doesn't mean that Ukraine will accede to Russian demands
41:07
because Americans are blackmailing if they won't help, But all
41:12
sides are confronting the reality that sustaining the fight will
41:15
be significantly harder without directive American support. We urgently need
41:21
to maintain and develop transatlantic solidarity and cooperation. From a
41:26
geopolitical and economic standpoint, the US is truly an indispensable
41:32
country for Europe and Ukraine, said Olinskander Marizoko, a top
41:38
Ukrainian parliamentarian. Still, many in Europe have worn that Washington
41:44
is pursuing a policy of appeasement. Did that end? A
41:49
criminin aid on Friday set after Putin's meeting with Utkoff
41:53
that Moscow and Washington were closer together not only on
41:57
Ukraine but also in a number of other international issues.
42:02
The aid Uri Yushakov told reporters that the discussion is
42:06
centered in part on restarting direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine,
42:11
that there was no indication that would happen immediately. Wickcoff's
42:17
team did not immediately provide a redate of the meeting.
42:20
Trump declared on social media that success seems to be
42:25
in the future, though support for Ukraine has created among
42:29
many Republicans as Trump has tightened his control over the party.
42:33
One GOP leader, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, warn the
42:37
President on Friday that Putin is playing America as a patsy,
42:42
imploring him to enact the toughest sanctions on the Russian leader.
42:48
In Europe, some officials called for more aggressive response to
42:52
the terms Trump is fishing on Ukraine, which conservative German
42:56
lawmaker Rodrik Kisweta described as a deed of surrender. Gabrielius
43:03
land Burgus, a former foreign minister of Lithuania, said European
43:08
countries should immediately launch new funding for weapons and license
43:13
European weapons systems to Ukraine's growing defense industry. He also
43:18
called for the European Union to fast track Ukraine's application
43:22
to join the body and set specific target dates. We
43:27
have to resist. If this offer is really is take
43:31
or leave it, we have to leave it, Landspurgus said
43:35
on a bench outside his destroyed apartment in Kiev on Thursday.
43:40
Anton Dubnyono, thirty four, sat with what little he had
43:46
salvaged his two cats, dog and computer after a Russian
43:50
missile struck the building next door, collapsing his walls. He
43:54
watched rescue workers rush to pro victims from the drubble.
43:59
By days in twelve of his neighbors had been declared dead.
44:04
Europeans should realize. Dubuenot said that if they don't stop
44:08
the war now, this is going to be them in
44:12
a couple of years. Video cast dote on Ed Martin's
44:19
apology for praising Nazi's sympathizer, Trump's picked for top DC
44:25
federal prosecutor, said he didn't know about the man's statements,
44:29
but Martin had discussed the anti Semitism allegations in podcast
44:36
by Spencer s. Hssou and Tom Jackman Antwerim. DC US
44:42
attorney Ed Martin apologized this week for praising a pardoned
44:47
January sixth, twenty twenty one, Capitol riot defendant who supported
44:51
Nazi ideology and photographed himself posing as an Adolf Hitler,
44:57
saying he didn't know about the man's extremisty statements, but
45:01
in videos and podcast Martin has defended the man since
45:05
at least twenty twenty three, calling him a friend who
45:08
was slurred and smeared by anti Semitism allegations. Timothy Hale
45:15
Cusanelli thirty five, was one of the first Capital Riot
45:19
defendants charged and one of the first to enter the
45:22
building through a smashed window. Court filings outlined his history
45:27
of alleged antisemitic statements, post and infinity for Hitler. At
45:33
the same time, Martin was a conservative activist and a
45:37
January sixth stopped the steel fundraiser and organizer. He defended
45:43
riot defendants in court on his podcast and throw a
45:46
nonprofit led by Hale Cassinelli's aunt. Now he's working as
45:51
DC's top prosecutor and his president, Donald Trump's pick to
45:56
remain in that role. Neither Martin's office. A lawyer for
46:01
Hale Casinelli commented Friday for this article, and Hale Casinelli
46:06
did not respond to her request for comment. But in
46:09
remarks published Thursday by The Ford, a Jewish publication, Martin
46:14
apologized for praising Hale Cusinelli as an extraordinary man an
46:19
extraordinary leader while presenting him with an honorary award for
46:23
Martin's nonprofit group on August fourteenth at Trump's golf club
46:28
in Bedminster, New Jersey. I'm sorry, Martin told The Ford,
46:34
I denounce everything about what that guy said, everything about
46:38
the way he talked, and all as I've now seen it.
46:40
At the time, I didn't know it. Six weeks before
46:44
the award ceremony, however, Martin interviewed Hale Casinelli about the
46:49
allegations and defended him in a more than an hour
46:52
long episode of his Pro America Report podcast, which he
46:56
hosted from twenty twenty until early this year. A video
47:00
of the episode was posed to July second on a
47:04
video sharing platform called Rumble. In your case, they used
47:10
your phone and took a photo and leaked a photo
47:12
to say, ah, look, maga, people are Anni cemented, Martin said,
47:20
you had a mustache shaved in a way that you
47:22
looked vaguely like Hitler and making jokes about it. Again.
47:26
You know, not your best moment, but not illegal. Martin
47:31
added that he knew of the allegations against tail Cusinelli
47:34
close to when he was charged on January fifteenth, twenty
47:38
twenty one. When I think of this case, tim when
47:41
it was first ongoing, I thought, Wow, it's almost impossible
47:46
to sort of recover from that pale. Casanelli defended himself,
47:51
noting that his mother has some Jewish ancestry. I'm not
47:55
an Rian like the government with all edge, he told Martin.
48:00
Hale Casanelli told the FBI he was not a Nazi
48:03
or white supremaist. Martin in twenty twenty one began serving
48:08
as one of three top officers of a nonprofit led
48:11
by Hale Casanelli's aunt, Cynthia Hughes, which advocated and raised
48:16
money for people charged with crimes related to the January
48:20
sixth Capital riot. Tax records showed. Martin has told the
48:24
Senate he stepped down early this year. He also spoke
48:28
frequently with Hughes, posting her on his hot podcast more
48:32
than a dozen times since twenty twenty one. Martin's attempt
48:37
to distance himself from Hale Cousinelli came as Democrats have
48:42
attacked their relationship, demanding a hearing and floor boats to
48:47
force GOP leaders to decide how much time in political
48:50
capital to spend on the nomination. It is well documented
48:55
that Ed Martin is a Donald Trump loyalist who has
48:57
embraced a Nazi sympathizer and attacked law enforcement who kept
49:02
lawmakers in staff safe during the January sixth insurrection. Senator
49:07
Dick Durbin of Illinois, the number two Senate Democrat and
49:11
the top Democrat of Theditiary Committee, said in a statement
49:15
last week before his announcement Wednesday that he will not
49:18
seek re election. Durbin has said Martin's shocking conduct regarding
49:24
Haile Cucinelli necessitates sworn testimony before Martin's interim appointment expires
49:31
May twentieth, and compounds questions about his prosecutorial temperament that
49:37
had been raised by his initial omissions of hundreds of
49:40
his appearance on far right in Russia's state media outlets
49:45
from committee disclosure statements, Hail Cucinelli, an army reservists found
49:51
guilty of misdemeanor trespassing and disorderly conduct in the capital riot,
49:58
was described by prosecutors subscribing to Nazi sympathize ideologies, a
50:05
central theme in court filings in his widely reported case.
50:09
At the time of his arrest, he was a civilian
50:12
security contractor at a naval weapons station in New Jersey,
50:16
where all but ten of forty four colleagues interviewed by
50:19
Navy investigators described him as having extremist or radical views
50:25
pertaining to the Jewish people, minorities, and women, and his
50:29
phone contained many examples of anti Semitic and racist content.
50:34
According to a government court filing that March one, Siala
50:39
told investigators that he heard Hail Kusnelli say that if
50:43
he were a Naxi, he would kill all the Jews
50:46
and eat them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. According to
50:49
a court filing, a search of his home turned up
50:52
copies of Hitler's autobiography Main Komf and The Turner Diaries,
50:58
an influential nineteen seventy eight novel The right wing Extremist,
51:02
among hundreds of books. Statements and actions like yours make
51:07
Jewish people less safe and less confident they can participate
51:12
as equal members of our society. A federal judge appointed
51:16
by Trump said that Halo Cusinelli's sentencing hearing in December
51:20
September twenty twenty two, US District Judge Trevor N. Macbadden
51:25
kept the jury from hearing allegations of anti semitism, but
51:29
called Hale Cusinelli's testimony that he didn't realize Congress sat
51:34
in the Capitol Building a visible lot. Video evidence showed
51:39
he was among the first rioters to enter the building
51:42
through a smashed window and was part of a group
51:45
that overwhelmed police in its lower level crypt Martin on
51:50
his podcast defended hal Cusinelli, interviewing him several times between
51:54
Jane twenty twenty two and October twenty twenty four. Martin
51:58
has said his guest was only charged by prosecutors with
52:01
a felony count of obstructing an official preceding of Congress.
52:06
He served nearly three years in prison before the Supreme
52:09
Court overturned that, leaving him guilty of only misdemeanors. He
52:14
was among the nearly sixteen hundred Capital Riot Defender's defendants
52:19
pardoned by Trump on January twentieth. In the July podcast,
52:25
Martin agreed when Haile Custnelli said he was a victim
52:28
of a smear campaign and described him as a friend
52:32
over the last few years. Hale Cusnelli went on later
52:36
to the podcast to suggest that January sixth was an
52:39
attempted color revolution of the US military and a staged
52:44
fake insurrection. The truth is that those in law enforcement
52:49
and military, such as the DoD, the DHS, what have you,
52:53
they're probably the ones who were involved in orchestrating January sixth,
52:57
hal Custinelli told Martin in the September episode, Martin was
53:02
fonded by alluding to the mystery of who placed two
53:05
pipe bombs on Capitol Hill before the riot. There are
53:08
other signs that Martin has known of at least some
53:11
of the allegations against Hao Cucinelli. In podcast in September
53:15
twenty twenty three and January twenty twenty four, Martin said
53:19
hal Cucinelli was slurred and smeared. The nonprofit Hughes Advocacy Foundation,
53:26
for which Martin served as director under Hale Cusinelli's aunt,
53:30
has a Patriot Freedom Project website that raised money to
53:34
support and defend January six political prisoners. The site has
53:40
a page dedicated to news about hal Cusinelli's case, including
53:44
a July twenty twenty one article headlined the Government's case
53:48
against a White Supremacist, which argued that Whiley's actions might
53:53
not be the easiest to defend, they were not criminal.
53:57
In the forward article, Martin now that he would have
54:01
known better than to anna hail Cucinelli, but he added,
54:06
I certainly didn't know all the terrible things that he
54:08
said and how he had acted. I think that's terrible,
54:11
and I denotes it completely. I hate it. I hate
54:14
that it happened. Martin told the Ford he's advising Leo Terrell,
54:19
head of a Trump Justice Department task force to combat
54:23
anti Semitism, and said he was behind the idea of
54:26
visiting ten universities for potential civil rights violations. Don't think
54:32
I'll have time to finish this, but I'll start with
54:35
Dad was a football star Until Dad was a monster.
54:41
Corn Brown's football life descended into illness and violence, leaving
54:45
his daughter searching for answers by Kent babb Out of
54:49
Anna Arbor, Michigan. By the time her dad visited last year,
54:54
Jaden Brown had gotten used to the blank spaces in
54:57
her family story. There were hazing memories, strangers, recognitions, photographs
55:03
of a vibrant man she had only heard about it.
55:07
Want to watch the NFL game tonight? She had recently
55:10
texted him. No response, just to ghost on. The contact
55:15
labeled Papa staring back wearing May's in blue. Hi Daddy,
55:20
she wrote the next day, question mark, question question mark.
55:23
She texted. After that, Jaden's older brother and sister had
55:27
quit trying. He's gone, they would say. Melissa and their
55:31
mother implored Jaden to move on too and stop asking
55:35
painful questions. You don't need to know, Melissa said. But Jaden,
55:39
just twenty two, struggled to accept the disconnect between the
55:43
dad she knew in the man everyone else described. She
55:46
had attended her dad's Alma Mata, Michigan, and occasionally descended
55:50
into internet wormholes to learn what she could. In pictures,
55:55
he was smiling and forever young. In videos, he was
55:58
an All Big ten defensive back who played eight years
56:01
in the NFL. In articles, he was a rising star
56:04
and coaching. But there was more. Hospitalized after standoff, one
56:10
of the stories read a self inflicted gunshot need another
56:14
read the same type of brain trauma. According to yet another,
56:20
as Dave Durson, they agreed to have dinner when he
56:24
was in Annau for a friend's memorial service. As it
56:27
had approached, James's mind raced with the usual questions. Why
56:31
had he forgotten her birthday? How did former teammates bring
56:35
out a version of him that his own children never could,
56:39
and what really happened in New England? I still get
56:42
scared of making him upset, she said the morning of
56:45
the service, sitting in the Nnnover coffee shop in her
56:48
Michigan tennis sweats her curly hair scrunched into a head van.
56:53
That afternoon, she changed into a black dress and heels.
56:56
Before leaving to pick up her dad. She stared at
56:59
Kiar told a nearby hotel. Her dad climbed down and
57:03
they set up for a chrysaler's symptom. He said nothing,
57:06
and for the moment Jaden did the same. There was
57:09
so much he wanted to ask him, even as everyone
57:12
insisted the truth would hurt too much. And with that
57:16
infanted day's reading of The Washington Post on April twenty
57:20
sixth of twenty twenty five. Please listening to continued programming
57:26
and radio. I have a good weekend. Bye,