Rachel Maddow reviews the ways that the Donald Trump administration tried to ensure an undercount of the people living in the United States in a way that would benefit Republicans politically, and the questions that raises now that the census numbers are being published. Aired on 04/27/2021.
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Trump Effort To Corrupt Census Haunts Release Of New Numbers, Next Decade Of Reports | Rachel Maddow
If lying to court is perjury, punishable by prison, why is Wilbur Ross still tottering free?
Weirdos
You didn’t respond yet weirdos
@Bart And MSNBC also isn’t a law enforcement agency. We leave such matters to the duly appointed agencies. If someone is suspected of violation of our laws, they must be investigated. Even Trumpites.
@Bill Martin yes
Rich and White of course.
A corrupt Census? From the loser who said: “If you don’t test, you won’t find any cases.”
Ya don’t say….🤔 😅😂
Kind of like the corrupt 2020 election you guys try to pull off🤣. We’re coming for all of you cheaters.
@Rick Rose Are you one of those employers? You seem to be talking from experience…
@JM B
No, JM B. I was a Trotskyist before you were born. That’s how globalized capital works — it searches the world for labor markets it can exploit. Why would Nike make its shoes in the U.S. where it would have to pay $15/hr. and provide benefits, when it can make them in a Bengalese sweatshop and pay only .25/hr. It’s why if Walmart were a country, they would be China’s sixth largest trading partner. Those ‘low prices, every day’ are built on the backs of cheap, exploited labor.
@Rick Rose Ok, thanks for making your point clearer. We agree, then. Not about the Trotskyist part, but about the rest of your comment. Stay safe.
expected as much from you, @N 827, yerp,
What happens when you take a joke too far?
The 45th president of United States of America.
A joke that exists no longer! Trump is gone forever!!
Trump is like a Russian snowflake:
white, fragile and not gone till after spring.@Lynn Jacobs
@Ann van de Kew Ha! Ha! Ha!
@Lynn Jacobs went from joke 2 NIGHTMARE
@Rosie by e.o.( only dictators rule by e.o.) R bipartisan? Which could not b done cause”I don’t want trump 2 get any credit” Nancy Pelosi said
Census was understaffed and low on time. There’s no doubt in my mind certain people weren’t counted.
@N 827 Trump is a NY Con Man that was voted out by TRUE patriots in a FAIR and FREE election, you FASCISTS are just MAD because your KING lost , but America WON! 👍🏼💙🇺🇸
@Ramon Gonzalez NOT MAD. Very excited about him returning to the White House after he wins in 2024 again.
@N 827 lol did you watch his bs fox interview? He said he’s not sure if he’s going to run because from a legal standpoint. He knows he’s in trouble and doesn’t want to talk about it. Fraud, money laundering and more.
@Starkissed TRUMP FOREVER. 🤪
More representatives in Arizona and Texas means bigger dem majorities when moderate incomers and democrat minded Latinos turn both states blue. Why is this a problem.
I didn’t even know this level of corruption of was even possible. Incredible.
WORK THE LEVERS. Change the rules.
@Ayush Aryal I suppose you think Trump is completely innocent of all accusations because he “powerfully” denied them?
@Ayush Aryal We have a two party system of governance, and one of those parties was taken over and continues to be held hostage by Trump. Of course he is still in the news — he’s a dangerous, corrupt fraud continuing to maintain his tiny grip on his cult of personality.
Welcome to the modern republican party.
It’s not. You are just a sheep
tRump’s only real accomplishment was to clearly demonstrate how fragile our democracy truly is.
Exactly! Republicans have shown us how valuable our votes really are!
Changing the electoral map (that way) is the same as silencing legitimate voters… and we all know Republicans hate it when someone talks! Ha! Ha!
Quite true, Bill. You need a radically new Constitution.
@Doug Laidlaw Absolutely not… you don’t change the rules in the middle of the game.
@Chard O’Mania actually another of reps were calling out Murphy cuomo and withmer on there lockdown policy mainly the ones where they took infected elderly and put them in with infected elderly
They succeeded in messing up the census. Those numbers are not reliable at all.
Run another census without the modifications.
Just act like he didn’t do it. Nothing he did is relevant. We should simply erase all his appointments and edicts from the last 4 years.
And send Trump the bill.
@pb5x5 He still won’t pay it.
@pb5x5 please do NOT use a capital T when referring to agent orange. It belittles those who do deserve it…
What a shock, Trump tried to rig the census, like he tried to rig the 2020 election.
Just like he rigged the 2016 election … Endless GOP corruption.
@Sandra Neal Please share your research with us. Only with all the facts can we make a reasonable conclusion.
@mike briganti There was a book written about him cheating at golf, and comparing it to his presidency.
@Move on Over transparent as a pint of Guinness!
@Move on Over trumper troll, but she denies it like all trumpers do now
“Did we get a screwed up census as a result of the fact that it was his (Trump) administration that carried it out?”
Answer: YES
The amount of damage that Chump and corrupt hacks caused is almost never ending. Census, Post Office, Russia, taxes, deficits, pandemic ….. and on and on.
Biden should just order a new census to be done.
@VSE4me1 if it is a copy of british law, like most your laws are, then it wont stop you doing another one, only that one MUST be done every 10 years. and sorry for gerrymandering, that is something that was taken from uk law too
cant reoder a new census ………….
You can ask the states that are loosing seats to further increase a push to recover the “missing” surveys from the places did could not get in time and even that is going to be a NIGHTMARE with the terrorist republicans in the senate
@sebell C you cant? yopu can in the uk, there is noware written in law in the uk, that you cant have a cencus every year, every month or every day. only that it MUST be carried out every 10 years
@Chaninification That happened to me once, just for myself. I hope you notified the Census Bureau so that they brought materials out.
@Ron Johnsonface You must be a bot. “Joe” is far more intelligent, knowlegeable about the law and government than you are. Obviously. “Joe Biden, the president of the United States, served in the United States Senate from 1973 through 2009. A member of the Democratic Party from Delaware, Biden was first elected to the Senate in November 1972, and sworn into office at age 30 on January 3, 1973; he was reelected six times.” And what have you done to serve your country?
***asterisk on his whole presidency!****
Why hasn’t Wilbur Ross been charged with perjury?! A US official lying to the supreme court is a big deal. It should have serious consequences.
He’s rich, old, and white.
It’s a different set of rules for them.
Biden agreed not to prosecute Trump officials and Trump himself in order to get republicans not to block his pick for attorney general. This is a blanket amnesty for ALL Trump administration officials. NO PROSECUTION. NONE. I do not understand how, after so much hoopla was made at the time about it, people have forgotten the deal that was made in the first week of the Biden administration. Trump and all his cronies walk. That was the deal and Biden is sticking to it. Trump may still be prosecuted for state crimes as they are not a part of the deal, federal crimes are off the table.
@Richard Beckenbaugh I think that’s up to the Justice Department?
@Karen Piotte
It is. That’s why there is so much corruption.
We need to compare the census data to other data to see if changes align with other population related data, starting with the regions that show the biggest unexpected change from the last census.
Yes, like the people that have kids in school or born and others who apply for assistance!, etc.
The Census should be a totally independent process, not reporting to a politician. The funding and the leadership needs to be protected.
The damage was done with the announcement. Even though it wasn’t on the final census, it still a barrier for the full account.
The count was also problematic because of the Covid shut downs and homeless issues.
I don’t trust these numbers.
but what these numbers mean is that Republicans will take the house in 2022
No one with a functioning brain would trust Census2020 numbers.
@George B. Wolffsohn
Because of a crippled Census operation at the behest of a criminally racist “administration” (CRIME SPREE)!
@Fifty Syx you’re correct…
On a personal note : I was alive last year and this, no one from the Census Bureau ever contacted me at any time, if that is any kind of indication of its being done efficiently.
I found a link to the census in an article on the census, and did it online.
@Robert Quick also the post office
I live in Philadelphia and had multiple visits from both census takers and people making sure you were registered for the vote maybe I’m lucky but they literally canvas neighborhoods before every election for registration. The only problem i had was the four unrequested ballots. We voted in person but got mail ballots anyway inviting fraud. Not saying it happened just that it made it possible and I’m not ok with that.
I filled it out online but do not know if it counted!!
@Klaudia Weber NY lost 1 because 90 did fill one out. DID U LISTEN BEFORE U TYPED.
I was working as a census questioner and it was slated to go into November, 2020. It was delayed in starting by months, then suddenly we were informed that it must be completed by end of September, 2020. It was being manipulated even before the count began. This count is a Joke. 🇺🇸
@skin e wasn’t it the democrats that stopped everything because of covid? N if ur gonna count eaters( non citizens). Why can’t we count my cows?
@Twinkle Toes see the logic behind my statement was really, makes sense it was delayed cause of covid… a global pandemic. And the commons sense smart people wanted to extend the deadline. Trump cut it short. Please keep sharing your single brain cell though
You should notify Congress. Or any Democrat in Congress if you don’t have a non-GOP representative or senator
Me too. I was an enumerator and my assignments and the deadline for ending the census changed several times for no stated reason.
@skin e well it did get counted b4 the exodus. If they counted now. Blue states would have lost more. So I guess by rushing. You can thank trump you didn’t lose anymore than you did
We need a redo of this count-anything the dump had a hand in is suspect.
Cool, let’s do the 2020 “election ” too
@Ron Johnsonface Na…Trump already tried that move.
@Victoria Williams too bad the courts were corrupt. President Trump can wait 4 years. Watching Joe fall and stutter is too funny 🤣
Did we get a screwed up anything because DJT was the one overseeing it?!? Yes, yes of course. Absolutely yes!