Ben Carson’s War on Fair Housing
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🗓️ 1 August 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump asked black voters, "What do you have to lose?" This Illinois town found out. Mother Jones reporter Tim Murphy shares the tragic story of how one neglected community got caught up in Ben Carson's crusade against fair housing—a confrontation generations in the making. Also on the show: DC bureau boss David Corn gives you the lowdown on the first day of the Manafort fraud trial, and assesses the odds that Trump's former campaign chief will cut a deal to save his skin.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jamila King in New York. This is the Mother Jones Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | On today's show, |
| 0:11.0 | on today's show, Traged tragedy where the Ohio River meets the Mississippi. |
| 0:16.2 | Delapidated, overrun by rats and mice and brooches, lead in the drinking water, gun violence. |
| 0:22.3 | The long road for housing justice in America |
| 0:25.0 | meets the Trump administration. |
| 0:27.0 | Of course he wasn't going to go to bat |
| 0:29.0 | for the little guy in a place where the little guy |
| 0:32.0 | is an African American in a blue state. |
| 0:35.3 | How a small town in Illinois got caught up in Ben Carson's crusade against fair housing. |
| 0:41.7 | He talks as if this is a place that HUD is committed to saving |
| 0:45.2 | rather than a place that HUD has left by the wayside. |
| 0:48.6 | Get your popcorn ready. |
| 0:50.3 | It's David Corn on the first day of the Manifort trial. |
| 0:54.0 | Manifort is in the middle of what looks like an attempt on the Trump campaign |
| 1:00.0 | to collude with Putin. |
| 1:05.0 | First, Hi, I'm Aaron Wiener in Mother Jones D.C. Bureau. |
| 1:07.0 | The trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Maniford is now underway in Alexandria, |
| 1:11.0 | Virginia. |
| 1:12.0 | It's the first of two federal trials |
| 1:14.1 | that he'll be facing soon on charges |
| 1:16.2 | including tax evasion and bank fraud. |
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