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...
Who is mentioned in this episode?
8 people come up, including Christie Noem, Caitlyn Dickerson, General Mark Milley.
- Christie Noem (Person)
- Caitlyn Dickerson (Person)
- General Mark Milley (Person)
- Vladimir Putin (Person)
- Mark Esper (Person)
- David Mitchell (Person)
- Carrie Alli (Person)
- Reality Winner (Person)
Sponsors of this episode
- T Priority from T-Mobile (Sponsor)
Mentioned in this episode
- Project 2025 (Concept)
- The Watch (Company)
- The Atlantic (Company)
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) (Company)
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Company)
- National Guard (Company)
- Los Angeles (Location)
- MacArthur Park (Location)
- Marine Corps (Company)
- Paul Weiss (Company)
- Speedway, Indiana (Location)
- Oakland (Location)
- Insurrection Act (Concept)
- Baltimore (Location)
- Highest Law in the Land (Book)
- Unruly (Book)
- Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs (Book)
- Due process (Concept)
- Paramilitary (Concept)
- Militarization of police (Concept)