2018-06-29

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Americans’ Trust in Online News is Low
— and Falling
Americans already trust newspapers and
television news more than online news, and
while trust in papers and TV is rising, trust
in internet news is falling, per a new poll
from Gallup.
By the numbers: Only 16% of those
surveyed in 2017 said they trusted online
news “a great deal” or “quite a lot.” That’s
down from 21% in 1999 and 19% in 2014.
27% said they trusted newspapers, up
from last year’s record low of 20%.
24% said they trusted TV news coverage.
That’s up from the record low of 18%
in 2014 and is the highest since 2011.
Methodology: Gallup conducted phone
interviews with a sample of 1,009 adults,
aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states
and the District of Columbia.
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Tolerance” Won’t Stop People From
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal outside the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac where 200 immigrant
detainees are being held. facebook
For the second time this month, Seattle
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal visited
immigrants being detained in a federal
prison in SeaTac. Inside, Jayapal talked to
26 male detainees, almost all of whom are
seeking asylum, she said.
Jayapal asked the detainees whether
they believe the Trump Administration’s
“zero-tolerance” immigration policy will
deter other immigrants from coming to the
United States.
“They all said absolutely not,” Jayapal
said in a video statement posted after her
visit. “They said the conditions that we
are fleeing are so horrible, so hopeless, we
fear for our lives, so we will continue to do
whatever we can.”
Jayapal first visited the Federal Detention
Center in SeaTac earlier this month,
shortly after a group of immigrants, mostly
women, were transferred there from the
southern border. After that visit, Jayapal
relayed stories from the women, including
some who were not given the chance to say
goodbye to their children and did not know
where their children were being held.
Under its “zero-tolerance” policy, the
Trump Administration has separated more
than 2,300 immigrant children from their
parents. Last week, the president signed an
executive order to stop the separations, but
that order will not stop the “zero-tolerance”
policy. Instead, families will be detained
together. It is not clear how children
already separated from their parents will
be reunited.
In order to detain more immigrants
under the policy, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement began transferring inmates
to federal prisons, including the facility
in SeaTac. According to Jayapal, 206 total
inmates were transferred to SeaTac. On
her first visit, she met with 174 women.
This time, she met with 26 men. Another
six men had recently been transferred to
another facility.
“These men broke down,” Jayapal said.
“They broke down with tears. It was just as
emotional [as visiting the women]... You
keep hearing about these scary criminal men
who are crossing the border. You’re made to
think that all these people are doing harm,
and that is just not the story.”
Jayapal said the men she met in the
SeaTac prison were “seeking to escape
violence, persecution, and had seen terrible,
terrible things.”
According to Jayapal, one detainee fled
Honduras after Honduran police attacked
him with a machete when he refused to
turn over account information from the
bank where he worked. Another saw his
14-year-old sister raped while police did
not intervene. Another said Border Patrol
agents stopped him and his 3-year-old child
from entering a legal port of entry into the
United States. (A Border Patrol spokesperson
declined to comment without further
information about the man.)
Jayapal also visited some of the women
at the SeaTac facility for a second time.
Many are seeking asylum but have not yet
had credible fear hearings, Jayapal said.
Jayapal has become a leading critic of
Rep. Trey Gowdy Tries to Force End to
Russia Investigation
by Aaron Rupar
During a House Judiciary Committee
hearing on Thursday, Rep. Trey Gowdy
(R-SC) pleaded with Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein to bring Special Counsel
Robert Mueller’s investigation of the Trump
campaign to a prompt conclusion, citing the
purported damage it is doing the country.
“There’s an old saying that justice
delayed is justice denied. I think right now
all of us are being denied,” Gowdy said.
“Whatever you got — finish it the hell up,
because this country is being torn apart.”
Gowdy’s comments might be defensible
in a vacuum. But when he was chair of
the House Benghazi Committee, Gowdy
oversaw an investigation of Hillary Clinton
that lasted more than two years.
When it finally ended in the summer of
2016, Gowdy told the Washington Post he
had no qualms about how long it dragged
out because “my job is to report facts.” But
Gowdy — who isn’t running for reelection
— is now clearly motivated by a desire to
protect his party’s president.
In 2016, Gowdy acknowledged his
Benghazi investigation didn’t turn up much.
the Trump Administration’s immigration
policies. On Saturday, she called for expedited
credible fear proceedings, the reunification
of families, and allowing immigrants
seeking asylum to stay with family in the
From the Post:
Gowdy said there was new information
unearthed by the investigation, which he
said included interviews with 81 new witnesses
and the review of 75,000 additional
pages of documents. The most prominent
witness was Clinton, who remained calm
under a marathon grilling before the committee
last October.
On the other hand, Mueller’s investigation
— which has been going on about 13
months — has already indicted or secured
guilty pleas from 20 people, including
former Trump campaign chairman Paul
Manafort and former Trump administration
National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
Later during the hearing, Rosenstein
— who was appointed to his job by Trump
— said he believes Mueller is working “as
expeditiously as possible.”
“I don’t think it’s atypical at all. I believe
that it’s being done as expeditiously as possible,”
he said. “That was one of my goals
in appointing someone I knew would be
focused on the task, would not be distracted
by other matters.”
United States instead of being detained. She
and other activists are planning a march in
Washington, D.C., on June 30 with affiliated
events across the country.