memeorandum: Trump's Immigrant Child Detentions Mean $458 Million for Nonprofit (Bloomberg)

6:45 PM ET, June 19, 2018

Top Items:

Josh Feldman / Mediaite:

Meghan McCain Calls Out First Daughter's Silence on Child Separation: ‘Where Is Ivanka?’ — On The View this morning, Meghan McCain brought up Ivanka Trump to ask where she's been on this issue of family separation at the border. — The outrage over separating children from their parents …

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Post and Mother Jones

Bill Goodykoontz / USA Today:

News media finally calls out Trump on his lies. It took children in cages to make it happen. … An audio recording that appears to capture the heartbreaking cries of children being processed by officials took center stage Monday in the growing uproar over the Trump administration's policy …

Discussion: RedState, Fox News, Washington Post and CNN

McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:

The Outrage Over Family Separation Is Exactly What Stephen Miller Wants — When the news stories began to surface last month of sobbing young migrant children being forcibly removed from their parents at the border, many close White House watchers instantly suspected Stephen Miller was behind it.

David Remnick / New Yorker:
Trump's Cruelty and the Crying Children at the Border

Discussion: Washington Post, Vox and ThinkProgress

Washington Post:
Trump is defiant as border crisis escalates, lobbies House GOP on immigration bills

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Daily Wire, Mother Jones and The Daily Caller

Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Two charts demolish the notion that immigrants here illegally commit more crime

Discussion: The Hill, The Daily Caller and Shareblue Media

Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
How to Get Tough on Immigration Without Separating Families

Discussion: Vox, Washington Post, Lawfare and National Review

HuffPost:

Rudy Giuliani Says FBI Questioned Him On Leaks That Hurt Clinton Campaign — Trump's lawyer says he talked with two FBI agents in his suite at the Trump International Hotel in D.C. — WASHINGTON Rudy Giuliani says FBI agents interviewed him in his room at the Trump International Hotel earlier …

Discussion: Washington Press, Law & Crime, The Week, The Mahablog and Crooked Media

Olivia Beavers / The Hill:

FBI agent Peter Strzok escorted from building amid internal review — FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok was escorted from the building amid an internal review of his conduct, his lawyer confirmed Tuesday. — Strzok, who had a central role in the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton

Discussion: Washington Times and The Gateway Pundit

USA Today:

Donald Trump is wrong. My client Peter Strzok is a patriot, not a ‘sick loser.’ — Donald Trump is attacking Peter Strzok, the FBI and the Justice Department in order to pre-emptively discredit the results of Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. — CONNECT

Discussion: Bloomberg, CNN, Law & Crime, Mediaite, ACS Blog and Fox News Insider

Laura Jarrett / CNN:
FBI agent Strzok escorted from FBI building Friday

Discussion: National Review, The Right Scoop and Daily Wire

Burgess Everett / Politico:

Trump loses temper over border wall funding — The president complained in a private meeting that Senate Republicans won't fully fund his wall — and threatened a shutdown in September. — President Donald Trump is getting frustrated with his administration's own demands for border wall funding.

Discussion: National Review, Vox, Townhall, Outside the Beltway and Raw Story

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

Schumer rejects GOP proposal to address border crisis — Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer — (N.Y.) on Tuesday dismissed a legislative proposal backed by Republican leaders to keep immigrant families together at the border, arguing that President Trump — could fix the problem more easily with a flick of his pen.

Discussion: The Right Scoop, The Daily Caller, twitchy.com and Ted Cruz

Mariam Khan / ABC News:
Senate Republicans buck Trump and back bill to halt immigrant family separations

Discussion: Politico

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell backs bill to keep immigrant families together

Discussion: National Review, NPR and Washington Free Beacon

Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg:

U.S. Plans to Withdraw From UN Human Rights Council Today — Haley has said panel wages ‘pathological’ anti-Israel campaign — U.K.'s Johnson has said council is flawed but has value — The Trump administration plans to announce its withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council …

Discussion: Townhall, Breitbart, Politico, CNBC, Daily Wire, IJR, Lawyers, Guns & Money, MSNBC, Axios, Pacific Standard and Talking Points Memo

Josh Lederman / Associated Press: Sens. McCain, Coons urge Trump to withdraw migration nominee

Former U.S. Attorneys:
Bipartisan Group of Former United States Attorneys Call on Sessions to End Family Separation

Discussion: Washington Post, CNN, The Hill, IJR, Vox, America's Voice, HuffPost, Law & Crime and Talking Points Memo

Carol Morello / Washington Post: U.S. expected to back away from U.N. Human Rights Council

Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:

Breaking: Michael Cohen, Holding His Cards Close to the Vest, Has Hired a New Lawyer — The president's former attorney, who parted with his lawyers last week, has now hired Guy Petrillo, who served as the chief of the criminal division in the S.D.N.Y. from 2008 to 2009. — BY - EMILY JANE FOXJune 19, 2018,

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and CNBC

CNN:

Michael Cohen is hiring an experienced criminal lawyer in New York — Source: Cohen signals willingness to cooperate — Washington (CNN)President Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen is hiring Guy Petrillo, a former chief of the criminal division of the US attorney's office in Manhattan …

Wall Street Journal: Michael Cohen Wants Trump to Pay His Legal Fees

McClatchy Washington Bureau:

Exclusive: US officials likely lost track of nearly 6,000 unaccompanied migrant kids — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has likely lost track of nearly 6,000 unaccompanied migrant children, thousands more than lawmakers were alerted to last month, according to a McClatchy review of federal data.

Discussion: Globe and Mail, TalkLeft, Axios, The Intercept, TheBlaze, The Week, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story

Zeke Miller / Associated Press:

White House deputy chief of staff to leave in July — WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House aide who led the planning for President Donald Trump's meeting last week with North Korea's Kim Jong Un has decided to leave the Trump administration to return to the private sector.

Discussion: The Atlantic, CNBC and Hit & Run

BuzzFeed: One Of Trump's Top Aides Is Leaving The White House

MSN:
White House deputy chief of staff to leave in July

Discussion: Political Wire, The Week and CNN

Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
White House deputy chief of staff Hagin to leave

Discussion: Washington Post and TheBlaze

George Takei / Foreign Policy:

‘At Least During the Internment ...’ Are Words I Thought I'd Never Utter — I was sent to a camp at just five years old — but even then, they didn't separate children from families — Imagine this scene: Tens of thousands of people, mostly families with children, are labeled by the government …

Discussion: The Atlantic, CNN, Vox, twitchy.com, Religion News Service, ThinkProgress, Deadline, The Daily Caller and KTLA

CBS News:
Members of Sessions' church accuse him of child abuse for border policies

Discussion: al.com, The United Methodist Church and Vox

Eric Boehlert / Shareblue Media:
Jeff Sessions' own church charges him with child abuse

Discussion: ThinkProgress and New York Magazine

Julia Ainsley / NBC News:

Former ICE Director: Some migrant family separations are permanent — “You could be creating thousands of immigrant orphans in the U.S.,” said ex-Acting Director John Sandweg. — WASHINGTON — The former head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told NBC News that migrant parents separated …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Balloon Juice and The Atlantic

Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:

Buyers tied to Russia, former Soviet republics paid $109 million cash for Trump properties — WASHINGTON — Aleksandr Burman, a Ukrainian who engaged in a health care scheme that cost the federal government $26 million and was sentenced to a decade in prison, paid $725,000 cash for a condo …

Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:

Erik Prince: I ‘Cooperated’ With Mueller … Erik Prince, the founder of private security company Blackwater, has found himself embroiled in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of potential coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. — During the campaign …

Discussion: Raw Story

Gabriel Malor / The Federalist:

Democrats' Border Separation Bill Would Let Nearly All Parents Who Commit Federal Crimes Get Off Scot-Free — Every Senate Democrat has signed on to cosponsor a bill written so carelessly that it does not distinguish between foreign children at the border and U.S. citizen children.

Discussion: Townhall, RedState, USA Today, Hot Air, Daily Wire, Washington Free Beacon, twitchy.com, Axios, The Week and Fox News

Hot Air:
If Schumer Wants To End Child Separation Urgently, Why Doesn't He Back Cruz's Bill?

Discussion: Daily Wire

Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:

How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country — NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A team of political activists huddled at a Hardee's one rainy Saturday, wolfing down a breakfast of biscuits and gravy. Then they descended on Antioch, a quiet Nashville suburb, armed with iPads full of voter data and a fiery script.

Discussion: Hit & Run and New Republic

Daniel Dale / Toronto Star:

Donald Trump accuses Canadians of smuggling shoes home from U.S. — WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump has called Canada “brutal,” accused Canada's prime minister of being “weak,” and taken aim at Canada's supply management system for dairy. — Now he is calling Canadians shoe smugglers.

Discussion: New York Post, Washington Press and Breitbart

Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:

A reporter at the White House decided to play the audio of children sobbing. Somebody had to. — Olivia Nuzzi had no plans of playing the heart-rending audio of Central American children crying for their parents when she arrived in the White House briefing room Monday.

Discussion: The Nation, Media Matters for America, Portland Mercury, The Root, Media Matters for America and Splinter

The Onion / politics.theonion.com:
Stephen Miller Furious At ProPublica For Only Releasing 7-Minute Recording Of Immigrant Children Sobbing

Discussion: The Onion

Fox News:

Manafort in ‘solitary confinement’ to avoid attack by someone intent on ‘street cred,’ Trump ex-lawyer says — Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort is being held in “solitary confinement” after his bail was revoked, in an “outrageous violation” of his civil liberties, former Trump lawyer John Dowd told Fox News on Tuesday.

Discussion: Mediaite, VICE and Fortune

Bloomberg:

Trump's Immigrant Child Detentions Mean $458 Million for Nonprofit — Southwest Key paid to house immigrant children on U.S. behalf — Group runs former WalMart Inc. store turned detention center — The Trump administration plans to pay a Texas nonprofit nearly half a billion dollars …

Discussion: Houston Chronicle

Mike McIntire / New York Times:

Commerce Secretary Shorted Stock as Negative Coverage Loomed — Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. Ross Jr. shorted stock in a shipping firm — an investment tactic for profiting if share prices fall — days after learning that reporters were preparing a potentially negative story about his dealings with the Kremlin-linked company.

Discussion: New Republic, Forbes, BloombergQuint and Washington Press

Axios:

Don Junior cancels fundraiser with Bush son — Donald Trump Jr. and George P. Bush had formed an unlikely alliance despite their fathers, Donald Trump and Jeb Bush, loathing each other — with Don Jr. backing George P. in his re-election campaign for Texas land commissioner …