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Democracy Now! 2025-08-20 Wednesday

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Democracy Now!

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Democracy Now! Wednesday, August 20, 2025

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:17.0

If Trump cared about safety, he would stop kidnapping immigrant neighbors.

0:23.6

Because terrorizing people, terrorizing families is not safety.

0:28.6

If Trump cared about our safety, he would fund Medicaid.

0:31.6

He would fund schools.

0:33.6

He would fund SNAP.

0:35.6

Because people being sick, out of school and hungry, is not safety.

0:42.8

Why has President Trump deployed the National Guard to the streets of the Capitol?

0:48.5

Six Republican-led states, West Virginia, South Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana have all

0:55.8

agreed to send troops, yet some of their cities have worse crime rates than D.C. We'll go to

1:02.4

Washington to speak with the head of the group Free D.C. Then the number. How much is Trump

1:09.7

pocketing off the presidency? We'll speak with New Yorker

1:13.6

investigative reporter David Kirkpatrick.

1:16.6

I tried to look at all the sources of income flowing into President Trump and his family

1:22.6

and decide which of those were derived really from the presidency and how much they were worth.

1:29.3

And I came up with about $3.4 billion to date.

1:33.3

And finally, to Florida, where immigrant detainees held at the so-called Alligator Alcatraz

1:40.3

are stuck in a legal black hole.

1:43.3

So says the ACLU they've taken the Trump administration to court.

1:48.9

Well, we brought this lawsuit because people who are held at Alligator Alcatraz

1:53.0

haven't been able to speak with their lawyers confidentially or requests release from custody

1:57.7

on bond. We want to make sure that people can actually have that constitutional

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