Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force | The Ezra Klein Show
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ICE now has the biggest budget of any law enforcement agency in America. “ICE and Customs and Border Protection have long been the most rogue, kind of renegade and certainly pro-Trump police agencies in the federal government,” explained Radley Balko, a journalist who’s covered policing for decades. “What I think we are seeing right now is Trump is attempting to build his own paramilitary force. They want people whose first, ultimate loyalty in this job is going to be to the president.” Balko...
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- Project 2025 (concept)
- Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces (book)
- The Watch (company)
- Christie Noem (person)
- The Atlantic (company)
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) (company)
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement (company)
- Department of Homeland Security (DHS) (company)
- Caitlyn Dickerson (person)
- National Guard (company)
- Los Angeles (location)
- MacArthur Park (location)
- Marine Corps (company)
- Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents (book)
- IRS (Internal Revenue Service) (company)
- Paul Weiss (company)
- Nebraska (location)
- Speedway, Indiana (location)
- Cornhusker Clink (product)
- Republican National Convention (company)