GOP Polling on Trump, Niger Coup, Conditions at ICE Detention Centers
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The drums cascade of indepth ford, to be precise, has repealed many independent voters.

Yet polling suggests republicans don't really are loyalty to trump. Carry him through .

the primary is a burst from M. P, R. news. Military leaders over through new year's elected president three weeks ago, attempts to reverse the coup have so far failed. So what does that mean for the twenty five million people who live there?

And confidential reports obtain by npr describe, quote, barberry conditions at immigrant detention facilities.

Unfortunately, this is not an outlier. I think this is the tip of the iceberg.

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with each passing indepth a former president, Donald trump, up to for invitees. Now republicans appear largely unphased. So what explains that? And what does that mean for the next phase of the republican presidential primary?

M. P. R. Senior political correspondent and editor, denna monitor is here to discuss the morning of good night. Okay, so we should get across first that we're talking about trumps a grip on the base of its party, right? He viewed far more negatively overall.

Yeah, I mean, all he remains highly unpopular. He has had a repelling effect, Frankly, with independence. Cy in the trump is LED his party to a few disappointing elections in a row and he's been very little to expand his base, you know beyond that in the years since winning the White house in twenty sixteen. So it's pretty hard to see his past to winning again in twenty twenty four without some help potentially from a third party. And that's why you hear democratic traditions and pollsters really ringing the alarm bells about these potential third party efforts that have been cropping up recently, especially because trump and biden are so unpopular right now.

Now trump is competing in republican primary, and that's where he seemed far more favorably yeah, I mean.

with republicans is a totally different story. They're living in a completely different universe than democrats. And the independence when IT comes to trump, about half of republican voters seemed nearly locked in for him and seemed to believe almost everything that he tells them about what he claims are which hunts and double standards. And that includes as baseless election claims. You know, we know that joe biden, one in twenty twenty fair and square, but a reason cin inal, so that seven and ten republicans do not believe that fifty six percent of those republicans who said that they believe biden lost said that they based those views on get this solid evidence of which there's not IT really just shows how hyper partisan our political environments become in the results of trump and other republicans. Relentless campaigns against expertise and definitive sources, and one's able to undermine those things you can really make people believe almost anything now.

since the georgian and detection came out on monday, are using new efforts by trump t to reinforce the sense of grievance with this followers.

Yeah, definitely. I mean, it's been proven repeatedly in recounts, audits, dozens of court cases that there were no widespread fraud that would have changed any results. And yet trump will be added again monday in what he's calling a news conference from his golf course in new jersey.

He says he's going to present evidence of fraud that will indicate him, but this is really an old page from the trump playbook. He's done this over and over again since lost in twenty twenty, and all of the conspiracies he's put forward have been disproven. In fact, georgia republic and governor brian camps swatted these claims aside yesterday.

He said again that the states elections are secure and fair and that no one has proved anything under oath in a court of law, and that there was no substances of fraud. Cap really is an interesting figure, is a republican who rebuff trump and then cruised a real election in a swing state pe. But not many other republicans or any of trump's current primary opponents, we have really chosen or been able to follow that model, right?

And that brings us to the first republican presidential debates at for wednesday of next week. First of all, we don't even know if trump h will participate. By either way, his presence will be looming there.

Oh, definitely. You know, we know that the other campaigns have had trump at the center of their debate problem on some candidates who've been lagging want to make trump answer for these indictments. I'm thinking a former new jersey governor is Christie and former arkansas governor asa hudgens and others.

But you know, the thinking in trump world is, why bother when he's so far ahead in the polls? If there was a time to make a move? You know, you might think he would start next week in a prime time debate we're going to see because less than five months away from ioc .

xs now and pears medical mountain.

Thanks very.

It's been three weeks since security forces ousted the elected president of naja, and the cuse leaders appear to be tightening a grip on power.

Neighing countries in africa have imposed sanctions and threaten intervention and attempt to reverse the coup, but so far are those efforts have failed. Pressured by the U. S. And france, who had seen the jar as one reliable democratic allies, increasingly unstable region also hasn't work yet. Now the crew leaders are arresting opponents and taking steps, setting up their own new government.

And P, S, in manual, I can go to join us from lagos, nigeria within update. Good morning. Good morning. So many retour c from the military leaders who have taken over sounds increasingly defined. What should we take from that?

Yes, you know, it's been three weeks since the school now and the new year, military leaders have moved really quickly and quite aggressively so far. They've been resisting major diplomatic pressure against them. They've arrested many of the cabinet ministers and replace them with figures that really suggest that they, they, they are making a strategic, long term look at control of the country.

They've got form a diplomatic ties with france, its formal colonial rule with nigeria and togo, initially with the U. S. two. Although high level discussions and relations ongoing, they've quickly moved to restore relations with military regimes in male and beginner fossil. You know, these are countries that were isolated by most of the region in west africa, including by the now deposed new jack government, because those countries have had military takeover s too.

So the countries that won a reverse, this school, including the U. S, are they continuing to put pressure on the hunter?

yes. And you know, the major, the headline move really was the seven day automated by the regional block of west african countries that called echos.

And the automation was to reverse the coup or release president muhammad um who is still being detained oil face the possibility of military intervention and that automation lapsed the medium military called their bluff intervention now appears unlikely and really that only succeeded in creating a siege mentality among the new ja two leaders they announced earlier this week they would actually try resume for treason. And clearly they are holding him as important leverage. There's a meeting of access leaders tomorrow, and we will see what comes out of that.

But for now, the sanctions are ongoing. Power supply from nigeria has been caught a than our power cuts in in parts of new ja aid has been caught from france. And many people in this very poor country are grappling with these power cuts with the economic impact of this. But the gunter is consoler dating power.

Now some twenty five million people live in eja. Maybe these sanctions are aimed at the cool leaders, but how is this impacting them? What can you about life under this new military rule?

Yeah, absolutely. You know, it's hard to get a clear picture of this, but IT seems very polar ized. We've had a lot of visible support for the coup, many I in the capital where the government really unpopular, and we have seen process demonstrations in the streets already in the stadium.

But there is also upset. Antiq protests were disposed by soldiers and is uneasy parts of the country. You know, this is a very poor, land locked country in a frag apart of the world, battling multiple insurgencies by armed groups.

Before the coin in ja was held for its democratic gains and hand over a power. But they had a very flad system. The face is now a very uncertain and worrying future that then.

piers, in manual aco to reporting on the situation in jar from legos and nigerian.

Thank you.

An extensive investigation by N P R has revealed a trove of government records relating to the detention of immigrants.

They revealed that the government's own experts found what they call barberry treatment inside those detention.

N P R investigative correspondent tom drives box has been reporting this story.

Good morning. Good morning. wow.

So over three years before to the actual findings, can you give a sense of who is writing these reports and what .

they're looking for? Yeah, these reports are written by experts and subjects like medical care, mental health care, use of force, environmental safety. And these experts were hired by the department of homeland security to investigate complaints and claims of civil rights abuses in immigration detention center.

So these are facilities that block up immigrants on behalf of immigration and customs enforcement, or ice, to make sure those people show up for their appearances in immigration court. The government has been fighting our efforts to get these records since twenty twenty. We filed a lawsuit and IT took years, but a judge eventually found that the government had violated the freedom of information and ord them to send us these files.

When you say the government, as we mentioned, that both the trump and bided administration that are fighting the release of these files, what do they say?

So these files, they include more than sixteen hundred pages of reports covering more than two dozen facilities all across the country from twenty seventeen to twenty nine. And the inspectors found serious problems at these facilities, including pepper spray ing of mentally l detainee's retaliation for filing complaints, ignoring medical problems, filthy conditions like a talk roach on a medical exam table and brimming medical instruments.

In pennsylvania, a mentally ill man was locked into a restraint chair. A group of male guards gave the loan female guards a pair of scissors to cut off his close, and the inspector said there was no justifiable reason for this. And call this kind of cross gender strip search barbering OK.

So what you're describing sounds pretty troubling. You said you first request these records in twenty twenty. How have conditions changed since then.

right? A White house spokesperson said in a statement that these reports document conditions under the prior administration, meaning under Donald trump, they did not say conditions have gotten Better.

though they also fought the release of these records. The administration.

that's right. The trump campaign also, we reached out to them. They did not respond. I talked about all this with unis show SHE has spent years visiting these facilities for the acu.

Unfortunately, this is none an outlier. I think this is the tip of the iceberg. And if anything, conditions have probably gotten worse. One reason .

immigration attorneys and government investigations have found that conditions did get worse was because of COVID. Nineteen COVID increased the use of solitary confinement in ice detention. And for a while, IT also meant that inspections were done remotely, like over zoom and with paper records. So there was less oversight.

So what kind of responses did you get from the government? Well.

the department of human security said in a statement that they take their commitment to promoting a quote, safe, secure and humane environment for detainees seriously. They pointed out they have closed a handful of facilities due to poor conditions. The White house, as I mentioned, they did also send us a statement.

They said they are relying more and more on alternatives to detention like GPS monitoring. I should not hear that the biden campaign had promised to end contracts with private for profit companies, which run the vast majority of these ice detention facilities, but they have not kept that promise. They said they still want to move away from the use of privately run detention facilities, but need congress to act.

That's N, P, R. Investigative course on IT time. Dries bog, who has been reporting this for over three years. Thinkum, thank you.

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