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Independent UK -  During a private meeting at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, then-president Donald Trump mused aloud about whether people with disabilities would be better off dead instead of causing more expenses for their caregivers.The previously unreported conversation was between the then-president and his nephew, Fred Trump III, and is detained in the younger Trump’s forthcoming book, All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way.

Newsweek -  More Americans are learning about Project 2025, the 922-page far-right wish list authored by the Heritage Foundation and various Trump loyalists who either served in the Trump administration or aspire to work during a second term. It's a playbook that dramatically centralizes a president's executive power, dismantles regulatory agencies that safeguard Americans, and rolls back protections for civil and reproductive rights.

Specifically on immigration, Project 2025 promises to return to and expand Trump's worst policies on immigration. On the first day of a new term, Donald Trump has promised to "begin the largest domestic deportation operation in the history of our country." This deportation effort—which Trump has explicitly compared to the shameful 1950s operation that removed Mexican immigrants, including American citizens—would devastate the lives of the 11 million people who call the United States home and contribute to our economy but lack documentation. For the jurisdictions that push back on his anti-immigration policies, Trump seeks to deputize local law enforcement to raid and unleash chaos on our schools, hospitals, and places of worship, and allow out-of-state agencies to tear communities apart.

Trump's advisors have already laid out plans to loosen migrant detention standards to enable the creation of sprawling detention camps in a haunting reimagining of the WWII internment camps that held Japanese Americans.

And let's finally rid ourselves of the lie that the Trump administration would ever actually encourage immigration or support immigrants seeking lawful residency or citizenship. Even the conservative Cato Institute found in a review of the first Trump administration that its policies exceeded its goal of reducing legal immigration by 63 percent.

None of this even begins to consider the other measures Trump has suggested when it's politically convenient for him: ending birthright citizenship, deporting protesters, restoring a travel ban on Muslim-majority countries, and other policies that divide Americans instead of bringing us together. But that's the point and exactly what Project 2025 would advance. 

Recent lies of Donald Trump

NBC News - Former President Donald Trump plans to stop holding outdoor rallies like the one in a field in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he was shot in the ear by a would-be assassin, according to two sources familiar with his campaign’s operations. The campaign will hold indoor rallies and possibly smaller outdoor events or larger rallies in facilities, like stadiums, where entrances are more fully controlled and there are not issues with high ground nearby.

Jeff Tiedrich -   Their guy is a quadrice-indicted twice-impeached once-convicted popular-vote-losing adderall-huffing insurrection-leading ear-diapering testimony-ducking judge-threatening lawyer-ignoring witness-tampering day-one-dictatoring disabled-veteran-dishonoring inheritance-squandering rube-fleecing clown-makeup-smearing language-mangling serial-sexual-predating draft-dodging casino-bankrupting butler-bullying daughter-perving hush-money-paying real-estate-scamming bone-spur-faking ketchup-hurling justice-obstructing classified-war-plan-thieving golf-cheating weather-map-defacing horse-paste-promoting paper-towel-flinging race-baiting tax-evading evidence-destroying charity-defrauding money-laundering diaper-filling 88-count 78-year-old fluorescent tangerine felony factory. 

Guardian -Remember how Trump was hit with a more than $454m penalty in his Manhattan civil fraud case? If not, that’s totally understandable – the judgment came down in February, far before this election cycle started resembling a hackneyed political drama – but there is some new movement on this legal front.Trump’s legal team filed extensive legal paperwork Monday in his fight against judge Arthur Engoron’s finding that he had tricked banks and insurers by vastly overstating his wealth on financial documents. Not surprisingly, Trump has once again portrayed himself the victim of an “unauthorized, unprecedented power-grab” by Letitia James, the New York attorney general.

James, he argues, is trying to penalize Trump for complex, highly successful transactions” with“sophisticated Wall Street banks”. “President Trump stands among the most visionary and iconic real estate developers in American history,” they said. “As trial evidence highlighted, banks and lenders vied eagerly for his business. They acknowledged his unique ‘vision’ and unparalleled ‘expertise’ and they recognized that dealing with him would deliver ‘tremendous’ value.”

The state attorney general’s office isn’t too worried about his arguments, saying in a statement: “Once again, the defendants are raising arguments that they were already sanctioned and fined for. We won this case based on the facts and the law, and we are confident we will prevail on appeal.”