how high up the chain did that go and did it go to the president? one of the other developments here that seems important to me is that after previous reporting by you and your colleagues at the post, the trump organization, having been exposed publicly for all of the undocumented workers they have been using at all of their properties for so many years, they have made a sort of quasi-public affirmation that they don t want to do this anymore, that they maybe did this in the past but now they ll stop or try to get a handle on it. this new reporting from you about what they re now calling the mobile payroll construction firm, right, this company that trump is operating, that s using these undocumented workers, this seems to be not only current, but it seems to post date the affirmations from the trump organizations in the past that they wouldn t do this anymore. it does, you re right. in january, which was three to four years after president trump had sort of built a political car
us tonight. appreciate you being here. great to be here. what is the trump organization s response or the trump white house s response to your reporting at this point? the white house s response was nothing. we sent them questions asking how much contact has president trump had with this company, has he had contact with i.c.e. to push them away from enforcing the immigration laws at his company. the response was nothing. they declined to comment. president s company responded very briefly. we d sent them a lot of questions about this. as you can imagine, there are a lot of complexities here. we wanted to make sure we understood their side of the story. they sent back a photograph saying, we re doing our best to identify any workers who have given us false documents. and if we find them, we ll terminate them. is there any difference in terms of potential liability for the president and his business here, that there are these allegations, and we ve now seen repeated allegations f
hiring of undocumented employees across all of trump s properties. along with his colleagues at the washington post, reporter david fahrenthold has spent the last several months interviewing more than 40 undocumented immigrants who have been employed by the president at his various clubs. that reporting turned up at least eight different trump properties where the president is employing undocumented workers, even as he travels around the country inveighing about how terrible they all are. this reporting in the post has already shamed the trump business into saying that they ll stop hiring and stop using undocumented immigrants at their at trump properties. but according to fahrenthold s latest reporting, which was just out this afternoon, the trump organization is still going on with hiring undocumented immigrants. here s the lead to fahrenthold s latest story. quote, for nearly two decades, the trump organization has relied on a roving crew of latin american employees to build f
federal government, which donald trump controls, might not be the best place to turn to for our country to try to address this specific type of terrorism. because of that. because of the president s sotto voce alliance with white nationalism in this country, it s been interesting to look at the civil cases where it s the victims themselves taking it upon themselves to to try to identify the terrorist groups that have encouraged this violence with violence, finding them out, and through these lawsuits, disrupting them as organizations, particularly bankrupting them as organizations. it s a really interesting tactic right now, in large part because it doesn t depend on donald trump s justice department doing the right thing about these kinds of crimes and this kind of organized terrorism. and as we head into this weekend and this anniversary, i think it s worth noting that these types of cases are really on a roll right now. it s not just the charlottesville case, where they
sidewalks and rock walls a to the company s winery, and its golf courses from new york to florida. other employees at trump clubs were so impressed by the laborerers who did strenuous york with heavy stone that they nicknamed the spanish word for the flintstones. their ranks have included workers who entered the u.s. illegally. another employee still with the company said that remains true today. that remains true today. despite the trump organization s promises that they wouldn t do that anymore. and today s report is not just that trump s golf clubs are continuing to employ undocumented workers, even as the president makes his vitriol and hatred of undocumented immigrants the centerpiece of his re-election campaign. the centerpiece of this reporting today is that the managers at trump s clubs not only hired people who were undocumented immigrants, they explicitly told these employees, these ultimate immigrants, that they should get illegal papers to fake their status.