Ben Rhodes

Who made off with all of that money?

Whose pockets just got stuffed with the tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money that is unaccounted for in almost all of these transactions?

Yeah, you think you might want to slow it down a little bit?

That stink is what you think it is.

It smells like corruption, which, you know what?

Kings and dictators on their golden toilets are quite famous for.

And here's something else to keep an eye on in coming days.

This week, the Trump administration is going to try to make its most radical move yet against immigrants and against the Constitution in order to get at immigrants.

This week, they're going to argue before the Supreme Court that when the Constitution says anyone born in this country is an American, they're going to argue this week at the Supreme Court that the Constitution doesn't really mean that, even though that's what it plainly says.

And you'll see this headline as the birthright citizenship case.

In my experience, nobody who's not a lawyer instinctively knows what the words birthright citizenship mean.

What this case is, what they're going to be arguing this week...

The whole idea of birthright citizenship is that from the beginning in this country, anybody born in this country has been an American by virtue of the fact that they were born here.

It's a core part of what makes America America, and it's in the Constitution.

The Trump administration is trying to change that, and they're going to try to change it this week.

What they want instead is for you not to be an American by virtue of the fact that you were born here.

Instead, they want a new test.

They want to assess the allegiance, the loyalty of a person's parents before they decide if that person who was born here in this country can be considered really an American, really a citizen.

I mean, just to put this in perspective, before this current experience we are having right now with the Trump administration trying to build, you know, in Hagerstown, Maryland and Social Circle, Georgia and Salt Lake City and all these other places, before this experience we're having now where they're trying to build these huge Trump prison camps to hold people without trial indefinitely, before this, the last time we had massive domestic prison camps in this country to hold people indefinitely and without trial, the last time we did something like this was in World War II.

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