>>> THERE’S A LOT OF COMPETITION
FOR THE WORST THING THIS
ADMINISTRATION HAS DONE SINCE
THEY HAVE HAD POWER AND FOR
STARTERS HOW ABOUT RUNNING THE
WORST CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE OF
ANY INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRY IN
THE WORLD, KILLING 131,000
AMERICANS IN THE PROCESS AND
HEADING IN TO MONTH SIX, MONTH
SEVEN OF THE CRISIS WITH
AMERICANS STILL NOT EVEN
RELIABLELY ABLE TO BE TESTED FOR
THE VIRUS.
THAT IS A PRETTY GOOD COMPETITOR
FOR WORST THING THEY HAVE DONE
THAT HAS GOT TON A BE A
FRONT-RUNNER, RIGHT?
HOW ABOUT BOTCHING THE RESPONSE
TO HURRICANE MARIA
THEN BLAMING PUERTO RICO
HERE’S ANOTHER, A CROWD
FAVORITE
ANOTHER COMPETITOR FOR THE WORST
THING THEY HAVE DONE
HOW ABOUT SOLICITING, ACCEPTING
AND TRYING TO LEVERAGE FURTHER
HELP FROM THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT
TO HELP TRUMP’S ELECTION EFFORT
AGAINST HILARY CLINTON AND
SPENDING HIS ENTIRE FOUR YEARS
IN OFFICE DOING EVERYTHING THAT
THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT WANTED
FROM HIM, AND FIRING AND
DEMONIZING ANYBODY THAT WAS
INVOLVED IN INVESTIGATING WHAT
HAPPENED THERE
ALL OF THE THREE THINGS, THE
ROAN CORONAVIRUS, THE HURRICANE
MARIA TOUGHSTUFF, IT’S ALL SO
TERRIBLE AND NUTS AND
UNPRECEDENTED THAT WE WERE NOT
EVEN PREPARED TO DEFEND
OURSELVES AGAINST THOSE THINGS
FOR THE MOST PART.
THERE’S ANOTHER TOP CONTENDER
THOUGH, THAT WAS, I THINK,
FORESEEABLE.
PEOPLE IN THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION TOLD ME TO WORRY
ABOUT IT BEFORE IT HAPPENED AND
THAT’S THE THING THAT TRUMP IS
OVERSEEING IN TERMS OF THE RULE
OF LAW
THE END OF THE INDEPENDENT
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
IT’S TRANSFORMATION IN TO A TOOL
THAT BOTH HUNTS THE PRESIDENT’S
ENEMIES AND PROTECTS AND REWARDS
THE PRESIDENT’S CRIMINAL ALLIES.
RIGHT, THAT MAY BE SHOULD HAVE
BEEN FORESEEABLE
AND IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT’S
THE ONE THAT RUSHES YOU RIGHT TO
THE END OF HISTORY IN TERMS OF
YOUR STATUSES AS A RULE OF LAW
COUNTRY.
EXCEPT THERE’S LOTS AND LOTS OF
COMPETITION IF YOU TRY TO RANK
THE WORST THINGS THEY HAVE DONE.
THE MOST DAMAGE THEY HAVE DONE
TO OUR COUNTRY AND TO THE
AMERICAN EXPERIMENT.
LOTS OF COMPETITION.
BUT HERE’S THE ONE
HERE’S THE ONE WHERE, IF YOU ARE
A PERSON WHO BELIEVES IN HELL,
YOU HAVE TO THINK THIS IS THE
ONE FOR WHICH MULTIPLE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS ARE
MOST LIKELY TO SPEND ETERNITY IN COSMIC PEN ANSWERNANCE AND DAMNA
COSMIC PEN ANSWERNANCE AND DAMNA
THIS WILL BE IN THE OBITUARIES
OF MANY, THIS IS ONE THING THAT
WILL NEVER SLIDE OFF OF OUR
CONSCIOUS AS A COUNTRY
AND THIS IS SOMETHING WE FIRST
FOUND OUT THE SPECIFICS OF BELOW
THE FOLD ON THE FRONT PAGE OF
THE "NEW YORK TIMES" ON APRIL
21st, 2018
OVER 700 CHILDREN TAKEN FROM
PARENTS AT THE BORDER.
NEW YORK TIMES IS FIRST TO
REPORT ON 700 KIDS HAD BEEN, WHO
HAD BEEN SEPARATED BY POLICY
FROM THEIR PARENTS
AFTER CROSSING THE SOUTHERN
BORDER THE WHITE HOUSE HAD
CAREFULLY GUARDED THAT NUMBER,
THEY INSISTED THAT KIDS BEING
TAKEN AWAY FROM THEIR FAMILIES
THAT WAS RARE.
THE NUMBER WAS LOW
AND IT TURNS OUT, IT WAS NOT
LOW, IT WAS NORTH OF 700, AND IT
TURNED ON OUT THAT THE WHOISITE
HOUSE HAD BEEN KEEPING TRACK AND
AS OF 2018, MORE THAN 700 KIDS
AND THE CONTOURS OF THE STORY
FROM THERE ON OUT IS FAMILIAR
AND STILL TO THIS DAY, ALMOST
UNSPEAKABLELY TERRIBLE
LITTLE KIDS, TAKEN AWAY FROM
THEIR MOMS AND DADS.
BABIES AND TODDLERS AND
TEENAGERS, TAKEN FROM THEIR MOMS
AND DADS
AND SENT TO LIVE IN JAIL LIKE
CONDITIONS
SLEEPING ON THE FLOOR UNDER
SPACE BLANKETS BY ORDER OF THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, IN THE NAME
OF US THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
IT WAS, IT WAS AN EARLY BUT
UNSPEAKABLELY UGLY CHAPTER OF
THEED A ED AADMINISTRATION THAT
NEVER BE FORGOT EN
THERE’S A PART OF THE STORY WE
DID NOT KNOW UNTIL RIGHT NOW
THIS IS NEW, IT’S FROM A BOOK
THAT COMES OUT TOMORROW THAT, IS
CALLED SEPARATED, INSIDE AN
AMERICAN TRAGEDY
IT’S A BOOK WRITTEN BY MY DEAR
COLLEAGUE.
CORRESPONDENT JACOB SOBOROV, HE
WAS ON THE FOREFRONT OF
REPORTING THE CHILD SEPARATION
STOR
IN THIS STUNNING NEW BOOK FROM
JACOB, HE HAS BROKEN NEWS OF
WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE "NEW
YORK TIMES" FIRST REPORTED ON
THE LIST OF KIDS THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION WAS KEEPING
HOW MANY OF THEM HAD BEEN TAKEN
AWAY FROM THEIR PARENTS.
AND THIS PIECE OF THE BOOK, IS
ABOUT A TRUMP OFFICIAL NAMED
SCOTT LLOYD, SCOTT LLOYD WAS IN
CHARGE OF KEEPING THE LIST OF
KIDS WHO HAD BEEN TAKEN AWAY
FROM THEIR PARENTS AND FOR THE
FIRST TIME, IT’S REVEALED IN THE
BOOK, WHAT HAPPENED WHEN SCOTT
LLOYD, THIS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
OFFICIAL SAW HIS LIST.
THIS LIST OF THE SEPARATED KIDS
REPORTED ON THE FRONT PAGE OF
THE NEW YORK TIMES
THIS IS HOW JACOB REPORTS IT,
QUOTE THE REPORTING IN THE NEW
YORK TIMES MADE SCOTT LLOYD
IRRITATED.
HE WAS LEFT TO STEW ABOUT THE
LEAK OVER THE WEEKEND.
EMBARRASSED SCOTT LLOYD KNEW THE
LEAK CAME FROM HIS DEPARTMENT,
ON HIS WATCH, UNDER AN AN MINUTE
STRAGZ THAT APPOINTED HIM TO THE
POSITION
HE A DRASTIC REACTION.
LET’S GET THROUGH OF THE LIST.
IF HE DID THAT, IT WOULD DESTROY
THE LINK OF THE CHILDREN AND
THEIR PARENTS.
DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE LIST
ITSELF WAS THE BEST HOPE OF
REUNITING THEM
SCOTT LLOYD KNEW TO DISCARD THE
LIST, HE TO INSTRUCT HIS STAFF
TO DO SO
LLOYD WANTED TO HEAR FROM THEM
BEFORE DECIDING ON A COURSE OF
XZ
ACTION
HE ASKED WHY CAN’T WE E-MAIL ON
A CASE BY CASE BASIS
YOU SEE THE PROBLEM THIS
CREATED.
HOW CAN WE PREVENT ANOTHER LEAK.
WANTED TO DESTROY THE LIST
BECAUSE IT LOOKED BAD, BAD
PUBLICITY.
MIGHT GET HIM IN TROUBLE
DESTROYING THE LIST WOULD HAVE
MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE KIDS
TO BE PUT BACK WITH THEIR
PARENTS AGAIN.
HEY, MAYBE IT WOULD HAVE MADE
THE STORY GO AWAY.
THE STORY OBVIOUSLY DID NOT GO
AWAY
NEITHER DID THE POLICY
THE LIST OF SEVERAL HUNDRED-S OF
KIDS TAKEN AWAY FROM THEIR
PARENTS TURNED IN TO A LIST OF
SEVERAL THOUSAND
YOU MIGHT REMEMBER AFTER ALL THE
PUBLIC OUTCRY AND DISGUST ABOUT
THIS POLICY, THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION SAID, OKAY, YEAH,
FINE, WE WILL STOP DOING THAT.
AND THEY HAVE NOT ACTUALLY
STOPPED DOING IT
SINCE THE QUOTE UNQUOTE END OF
FAMILY SEPARATIONS MORE THAN A
THOUSAND MORE KIDS HAVE BEEN
TAKEN FROM THEIR PARENTS AT THE
SOUTHERN BORDER AND PUT IN TO
U.S. GOVERNMENT CUSTODY IN OUR
NAME, AND THOSE ARE THE KIDS WE
KNOW ABOUT
THE WHITE HOUSE IS NOT DOING
THIS, IN THE OPEN ANYMORE, THIS
TIME, THEY ARE DOING IT QUIETLY.
WHICH IS OF COURSE, IMPORTANT TO
KNOW JUST ON ITS FACE, THAT
TAKING LITTLE KIDS FROM THE MOMS
AND DADS IS OPERATIONAL POLICY,
IT’S STILL IN AFFECT
BUT IT’S ALSO IMPORTANT FOR
ANOTHER REASON, ONE THAT JACOB
SMARTLY UNLINES IN HIS NEW BOOK.
PART OF THAT IS THAT THIS WHOLE
IDEA WAS SUPPOSED TO DETER
PEOPLE FROM COMING IN TO THE
COUNTRY.
IF YOU ARE DOING IT SECRETLY,
HOW ARE YOU DETERRING THEM
IF YOU ARE DOING IT SECRETLY AND