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The Don Lemon Show

Donald Trump Is Giving Your Money to Criminals!

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

News, Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Don chats with Representative Dan Goldman for a powerful conversation aboard the ferry to Ellis Island, a fitting backdrop for a discussion about immigration, identity, and what America stands for. Together, they dive into the current state of immigration policy, the role of ICE, and the growing debate around how migrants and asylum seekers are being treated in the United States today. They also discuss the controversy surrounding Trump’s $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded pool that could benefit political allies and loyalists, and what it says about the administration’s priorities. Against the backdrop of one of the most important symbols of immigration in American history, Don and Congressman Goldman reflect on who gets welcomed into America, who gets targeted, and what kind of country we want to be moving forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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dot UK slash podcast to learn more. This is just mind-blowing corruption. I mean, what he did is

0:28.4

he sued the IRS, which he controls, because he has this whole theory that the president

0:35.3

controls everything in the executive branch, right? So under his own view,

0:39.7

he controls the IRS. He sued the IRS for $10 billion. Then he decides, oh, okay, we're going to

0:46.5

have a settlement, right? $1.7 billion in a slush fund that Donald Trump controls who the deciders are.

0:57.0

It's done in secret.

0:59.0

And nobody has any idea what the claim is or what the reason is why the slush fund.

1:06.0

That's what he wants to do.

1:07.0

So what is going on in this country?

1:09.0

When we thought about this, we're going, we go to Ellis Island, we get the Statue of Liberty.

1:14.6

Is this what our forefathers and the people who came before us had in mind that we would be picking people up without due process on the streets?

1:23.6

This is, I think, what gnaws at me almost more than anything, because I'm lucky to represent the Statue of Liberty in Ellis Island in lower Manhattan.

1:35.3

And what they stand for is what I think this country stands for, which is a new country built by immigrants, seeking a different type of government, a democracy,

1:47.7

equal rights, and a refuge from horrors all around the world.

1:53.4

And that's what my American values are, and I think that's what so many are.

1:59.0

And for this administration, not only to target and demonize

2:04.1

immigrants but to do it without any any regard for the law is not just illegal and unlawful as you

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