How Trump's bungling turned his top issue into his greatest liability
5/4/202650 min
Julia Ainsley, senior Homeland Security correspondent for NBC News and author of the newly released, "Undue Process: The Inside Story of Trump’s Mass Deportation Program" talks with Rachel Maddow about her original reporting into how the Trump administration's series of ad libs on implementing Trump's immigration policy led to a cascade of failures that turned Trump's biggest political boon into a disaster that turned the country against him.
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Of all the things that Donald Trump has done or tried to do in his fifteen months or so back in office, if you had to identify the thing he has been most wrong about, I mean, the, the biggest at least, um, political miscalculation of his second term, the thing he thought was gonna be an obvious winner, and boy, was it not a winner at all. I mean, honestly, there are a million things to choose from,