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In September this year, he put up \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10104067130714241\">a post on his personal page\u003c/a> saying he regretted calling it crazy: \"This is too important an issue to be dismissive.\" He followed that up with \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10104074437830721\">another post \u003c/a>promising to do better: \"For the ways my work was used to divide people rather than bring us together, I ask forgiveness and I will work to do better.\" According to interviews with current and former employees and other technology leaders close to the company, the 33-year-old CEO is now struggling to course correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When it was Harvard or just the Ivies, they had norms that worked,\" says Tarleton Gillespie, a communications expert at Microsoft Research who is writing a book about harmful speech online titled \u003cem>Custodians of the Internet\u003c/em>. But once everyone from \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/bfmamatalk/\">moms breastfeeding\u003c/a> their babies\u003cem> to\u003c/em> white supremacists came in, he says, the system broke down. \"Facebook was less prepared to make decisions about acceptable speech,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Couple that lack of preparedness with the desire to ramp up a company at unimaginable speed. Facebook has grown in the span of just 13 years from a handful of college students to over 2 billion monthly users; with advertising revenue close to \u003ca href=\"https://www.statista.com/statistics/271258/facebooks-advertising-revenue-worldwide/\">$27 billion\u003c/a> last year alone. Along the way, it has hooked legacy media too. Many news organizations depend on Facebook to drive traffic and a number of other outlets, including NPR, have paid partnerships with Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Call it ambition or naïveté. The company's early mantra, \"move fast and break things,\" proved to be a winning approach to software development. Not so much to human relationships. It was a classic Silicon Valley case of product before purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook leaders now say that, perhaps by moving too quickly, they failed to anticipate all the ways in which people could abuse their platform. For a group of engineers focused on data and algorithms, it's like the modern version of Frankenstein: they've created a monster whose powers they're just beginning to understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To do it, the company will need to shift the focus of its metrics. People who've work at Facebook say that from Day 1, Zuckerberg has been fixated on measuring engagement: how much you like, click, share, up to what second you watch a video. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 4:20 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparent Russian agents began reaching out to Donald Trump's presidential campaign as early as March of 2016, the Justice Department established in documents released Monday, with appeals for partnership and offers of help including \"dirt\" on Trump's opponent, Hillary Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That case is made in charging documents in the case of then-Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court documents got a little less focus early in the day than other indictments involving Trump's one-time campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and a top aide, Rick Gates, who was Manafort's deputy and a business partner. Manafort and Gates pleaded not guilty in federal court Monday to all the charges announced earlier Monday, NPR's Barbara Sprunt reports. The two men were deemed a flight risk and put under house arrest. Both told the court they have a difficult time \"assessing their assets at this point.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"aE2LHRTYJWqjXHl7gtEDAAaMOfuoboDV\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Papadopoulos matter speaks to the heart of the mandate for Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller — to examine potential connections between people in the Trump campaign and Russian influence-mongers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is now known is that Russia tried to infiltrate the Trump campaign — and did so successfully, at least at some level. Put in context of other reporting around the Russia story, it is a remarkable establishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court documents also establish that Russia promised \"thousands of emails\" that would have \"dirt\" on Hillary Clinton to Papadopoulos in April 2016. A trove of hacked Democratic emails was released by WikiLeaks three months later — in the midst of the Democratic National Convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I will tell you this, Russia: If you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,\" Trump said, appearing to encourage Russia to continue digging. His campaign denied he was doing that. \"I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papadopoulos tried to set up additional meetings or contacts between people in the Trump campaign and Russians. There were many contacts, according to the court documents, which describe meetings or messages between Papadopoulos and at least two Russians, a \"professor\" in London and a woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what remains unknown is who are the high-ranking campaign officials Papadopoulos contacted and what did those other officials do, if anything, with information Papadopoulos shared?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is known, however, that Donald Trump Jr., the son of the billionaire, organized and took a meeting with Russian nationals, who also promised dirt on Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it's what you say,\" Trump Jr. wrote to the associate who set up the meeting, \"I love it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort and Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and a key adviser, also attended the meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the first time a connection between the Trump campaign and Russia's attempt to interfere in the 2016 election has been established by an ironclad official government source. Reporting that has linked the Trump campaign and Russia's effort has been dismissed by the White House and the president as \"fake news.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the charges against Manafort and Gates were announced, President Trump dismissed their significance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/925005659569041409\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/925006418989715456\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papadopoulos' guilty plea is going to be more difficult for him to downplay, although the White House tried to do so on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today's announcement has nothing to do with the president or the campaign or campaign activity,\" White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at a White House press briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, that is not true. Trump named Papadopoulos as a foreign-policy adviser to the campaign. Sanders, however, dismissed him merely a \"volunteer member of an advisory council that met one time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders tried to pivot to the Clinton campaign instead, alleging it \"colluded\" with Russian intelligence to craft the so-called \"Steele Dossier.\" The dossier, which collected opposition research on Trump that eventually focused on his ties to Russia, was initially paid for by the conservative Washington Free Beacon website. The site \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/us/politics/trump-dossier-paul-singer.html\">is funded in large part \u003c/a>by conservative donor Paul Singer, who was a Trump skeptic and backer of Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research for the dossier was conducted by a firm called Fusion GPS, run by two former investigative reporters. They hired Chris Steele, a former British spy turned private investigator. He has ties to U.S. intelligence and is known as a Russia expert. As a specialist, they hired him to find more information about Trump's ties in Russia that they couldn't get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the primaries were over, the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee picked up the tab to keep the research going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders called the dossier as \"false information.\" Some of it has been confirmed by some news outlets. Some of it is incendiary and has not been independently confirmed. Sanders dismissed the meeting at Trump Tower between Trump Jr. and Russian nationals as simply \"a meeting that took place\" and \"routine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not routine. Opposition research is, but not seeking it from foreign governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders, though, contended the Clinton campaign's and DNC's \"millions of dollars\" paid for the oppo-research file (that it never used) was far worse that Trump Jr.'s meeting — or anything coming out of Monday's court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They took one meeting, and nothing came of it,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders also said the president had \"no reaction,\" because \"it doesn't have anything to do with us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not the end of the Mueller investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There could be more details to come either from Mueller or the congressional committees that are investigating the Russia imbroglio. Court documents indicate that Papadopoulos has met with the government \"on numerous occasions to provide information and answer questions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is also investigating Russia-Trump ties, called Monday's developments in a statement \"a significant and sobering step in what will be a complex and likely lengthy investigation by the Special Counsel. That is why it is imperative that Congress take action now to protect the independence of the Special Counsel, wherever or however high his investigation may lead.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His office also said he wants bipartisan members of Congress to \"make clear\" to President Trump \"that issuing pardons to any of his associates or to himself would be unacceptable, and result in immediate, bipartisan action by Congress.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president has the unfettered ability to pardon anyone from federal crimes. But that only applies to \u003cem>federal \u003c/em>crimes. Some officials, including Manafort, could also face charges at the state level — in New York, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warner also put the guilty plea and indictments in the context of broader developments on the Trump-Russia investigation over the last several months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is just the latest in a series of undisclosed contacts, misleading public statements, potentially compromising information, and highly questionable actions from the time of the Trump campaign that together, remain a cause for deep concern and continued investigation,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are indications that Papadopoulos is cooperating with federal agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is in the best interest of our client, George Papadopoulos, that we refrain from commenting on George's case,\" his lawyers, Thomas M. Breen and Robert W. 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The two were expected in court in Washington by the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department indictment on Manafort and Gates contains 12 counts: \"conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading FARA statements, false statements, and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papadopoulos\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/30/560816481/trumps-former-foreign-policy-advisor-pleads-guilty-to-lying-to-the-fbi\"> pleaded guilty to making false statements\u003c/a> to the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Manafort and Gates indictment unsealed on Monday morning does not make any reference to Russia's influence campaign against the presidential election, but it does allege extensive financial ties between Manafort and Gates and powerful Ukrainians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Papadopoulos materials, on the other hand, detail the many contacts investigators say he had with Russian-linked operatives. He met at least two people, a man and a woman, who the FBI says were working for the Russian government and had boasted to him about the help it could offer the Trump campaign against Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort and Gates \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/30/560782357/paul-manafort-is-reportedly-told-to-surrender-to-federal-agents\">turned themselves in to the FBI\u003c/a> on Monday morning. Papadopoulos' status was unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort appeared at the FBI's Washington field office just after 8 a.m. with his lawyer, Kevin Downing. 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He noted that FARA has only been used half a dozen times in the last 50 years and with only one conviction. He's right that the act is seldom-used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downing then thundered, \"The second thing about this indictment that I myself find most ridiculous is the claim that maintaining offshore accounts to bring all your funds into the United States as a scheme to conceal from the United States government is ridiculous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the special counsel declined to comment to NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"yCv1Q6F0dBXv40CZSzEFwLnIOIrqrjQk\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The materials \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/sco\">are online here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Papadopoulos court documents \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4163471-George-Papadopoulos-Documents\">are available here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Ukraine connection\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort headed Trump's campaign from June to August of 2016. 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The document alleges that Manafort laundered more than $18 million of that to conceal it from U.S. authorities and Gates transferred more than $3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort grew wealthy over a colorful career in his four decades as a Republican operative and lobbyist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He worked for Republican campaigns in the late 1970s and early 1980s before moving into the lucrative world of international lobbying, where he teamed up with Roger Stone to found the firm Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort represented a host of unsavory characters over the years, including Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos and Zaire's leader Mobutu Sese Seko.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 2000s, Manafort headed to Ukraine to work as an adviser to the pro-Russian politician Viktor Yanukovych, helping him win the presidency in 2010. Yanukovych was overthrown by a wave of popular protests four years later. He fled to Russia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort later became an early backer of Trump, eventually assuming the role of chairman of his insurgent presidential campaign. Trump and the White House have lately downplayed the role that Manafort played in the 2016 operation. But at the time, their relationship was said to be close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort is \"the one person in the room that calls him 'Donald,' \" as Republican operative Scott Reed \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/07/16/486085582/meet-paul-manafort-the-washington-insider-running-trumps-campaign\">told NPR last year\u003c/a>. \"It's not 'Mr. Trump.' It's 'Donald.' 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Papadopoulos' guilty plea is going to be more difficult for him to downplay, although the White House tried to do so on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today's announcement has nothing to do with the president or the campaign or campaign activity,\" White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at a White House press briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, that is not true. Trump named Papadopoulos as a foreign-policy adviser to the campaign. Sanders, however, dismissed him merely a \"volunteer member of an advisory council that met one time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders tried to pivot to the Clinton campaign instead, alleging it \"colluded\" with Russian intelligence to craft the so-called \"Steele Dossier.\" The dossier, which collected opposition research on Trump that eventually focused on his ties to Russia, was initially paid for by the conservative Washington Free Beacon website. The site \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/us/politics/trump-dossier-paul-singer.html\">is funded in large part \u003c/a>by conservative donor Paul Singer, who was a Trump skeptic and backer of Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research for the dossier was conducted by a firm called Fusion GPS, run by two former investigative reporters. They hired Chris Steele, a former British spy turned private investigator. He has ties to U.S. intelligence and is known as a Russia expert. As a specialist, they hired him to find more information about Trump's ties in Russia that they couldn't get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the primaries were over, the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee picked up the tab to keep the research going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders called the dossier as \"false information.\" Some of it has been confirmed by some news outlets. Some of it is incendiary and has not been independently confirmed. Sanders dismissed the meeting at Trump Tower between Trump Jr. and Russian nationals as simply \"a meeting that took place\" and \"routine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not routine. Opposition research is, but not seeking it from foreign governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders, though, contended the Clinton campaign's and DNC's \"millions of dollars\" paid for the oppo-research file (that it never used) was far worse that Trump Jr.'s meeting — or anything coming out of Monday's court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They took one meeting, and nothing came of it,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders also said the president had \"no reaction,\" because \"it doesn't have anything to do with us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not the end of the Mueller investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There could be more details to come either from Mueller or the congressional committees that are investigating the Russia imbroglio. Court documents indicate that Papadopoulos has met with the government \"on numerous occasions to provide information and answer questions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is also investigating Russia-Trump ties, called Monday's developments in a statement \"a significant and sobering step in what will be a complex and likely lengthy investigation by the Special Counsel. That is why it is imperative that Congress take action now to protect the independence of the Special Counsel, wherever or however high his investigation may lead.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His office also said he wants bipartisan members of Congress to \"make clear\" to President Trump \"that issuing pardons to any of his associates or to himself would be unacceptable, and result in immediate, bipartisan action by Congress.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president has the unfettered ability to pardon anyone from federal crimes. 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The two were expected in court in Washington by the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department indictment on Manafort and Gates contains 12 counts: \"conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading FARA statements, false statements, and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papadopoulos\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/30/560816481/trumps-former-foreign-policy-advisor-pleads-guilty-to-lying-to-the-fbi\"> pleaded guilty to making false statements\u003c/a> to the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Manafort and Gates indictment unsealed on Monday morning does not make any reference to Russia's influence campaign against the presidential election, but it does allege extensive financial ties between Manafort and Gates and powerful Ukrainians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Papadopoulos materials, on the other hand, detail the many contacts investigators say he had with Russian-linked operatives. He met at least two people, a man and a woman, who the FBI says were working for the Russian government and had boasted to him about the help it could offer the Trump campaign against Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort and Gates \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/30/560782357/paul-manafort-is-reportedly-told-to-surrender-to-federal-agents\">turned themselves in to the FBI\u003c/a> on Monday morning. Papadopoulos' status was unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort appeared at the FBI's Washington field office just after 8 a.m. with his lawyer, Kevin Downing. 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His resume includes time in the U.S. Navy plus jobs working with Goldman Sachs; Biosphere 2; a Florida maker of nasal sprays; and a Hong Kong company that employed real people to earn virtual gold in the online video game World Of Warcraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Bannon returned to run Breitbart News after leaving his job as President Trump's chief strategist, and he is encouraging primary challenges against establishment-leaning Republicans around the country, including some vulnerable GOP incumbents in Senate seats the party needs to hold onto in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"DAlIoUa0rZ2jgB25YkzVVAf9lx10kbnc\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now, it's a season of war against the GOP establishment,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/10/14/557805965/bannon-it-s-a-season-of-war-against-the-gop-establishment\">Bannon said\u003c/a> at the recent Values Voter Summit, an annual gathering of Christian conservatives in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this effort is just the latest chapter in Bannon's ever-changing career, which raises the question: How long has Bannon held his well-known populist and nationalist beliefs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NPR podcast \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/series/469833353/embedded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Embedded\u003c/a>\u003c/em> has found new evidence that the man who helped engineer the Trump political juggernaut underwent a major evolution during his time in, of all places, Hollywood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/558679167/558682688\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Before Politics, a Search for the Next Barney the Dinosaur\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Exhibit A in Steve Bannon's evolution might be a 30-minute highlight reel featuring the comedic hijinks of the sports mascot the San Diego Chicken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, some back story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bannon came to Los Angeles in the late 1980s, while he was working for Goldman Sachs. As \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/01/how-hollywood-remembers-steve-bannon\">the New Yorker reported\u003c/a>, the investment bank wanted to \"expand its presence in the entertainment business.\" Soon after, Bannon decided to start his own investment company, and got interested in producing films himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around that time, Bannon created his own film company, called Bannon Film Industries, where he worked with his brother, Christopher T. Bannon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film company, like Bannon himself, went on to focus on politics. Its most famous production is probably the anti-Hillary Clinton film \u003cem>Clinton Cash\u003c/em>, based on a book released around the time Clinton launched her 2016 presidential campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's not how it started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR's Embedded team unearthed a 1993 article in the \u003cem>Richmond Times-Dispatch\u003c/em>, Bannon's hometown newspaper, featuring the kind of headline you don't usually see associated with Steve Bannon: \"THE FAMOUS CHICKEN IS POISED FOR BARNEY-STYLE CAREER LAUNCH\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Famous Chicken is also known as The San Diego Chicken, who is also known as Ted Giannoulas, who is also known as \"a guy who dons a chicken suit for fun and notoriety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1993, Christopher Bannon co-wrote \u003cem>The Chicken's Greatest Bits\u003c/em>, a 37-minute tape, available by mail order, featuring highlights of some of Giannoulas' act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a lot of film products we're shopping around,\" Christopher Bannon told the newspaper, \"but 'The Chicken's Greatest Bits' is the first one to carry the Bannon Film Industries banner.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11625021\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/BannonChicken-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"The Chicken's Greatest Bits, featuring sports mascot the San Diego Chicken, was produced by Bannon Film Industries in 1993.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/BannonChicken.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/BannonChicken-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/BannonChicken-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/BannonChicken-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/BannonChicken-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 'Chicken's Greatest Bits,' featuring sports mascot the San Diego Chicken, was produced by Bannon Film Industries in 1993. \u003ccite>(Tom Dreiscbach/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the paper, Bannon Film Industries had big plans for The Famous Chicken, including \"a series of videos, a possible TV show, toys, games and maybe a low-budget movie along the lines of '\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je3jfepymQM\">Ernest Goes to Camp\u003c/a>.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ultimately our goal is to build a Barney-the-dinosaur-like industry,\" Christopher Bannon said\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong> \"This video is really just the gateway event into The Chicken industry, as silly as it sounds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR was able to buy the used VHS tape from Amazon for $2.99.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some highlights:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The Famous Chicken \"laying\" a baseball like an egg.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \"Grand Hatching,\" where, \"with all the pomp and circumstance of a coronation\" the Chicken punches through a giant 10-foot egg to the soundtrack of \"Thus Spake Zarathustra.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And \"The Homebird Rap,\" where the Chicken performs an \"Ice Ice Baby\" parody song while wearing an American flag jumpsuit, black sunglasses and a Vanilla Ice-esque toupee.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/event/embeddedVideo.php?storyId=558906151&mediaId=559057077\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear how much direct involvement Steve Bannon had with \u003cem>The Chicken's Greatest Bits\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ted Giannoulas told NPR in an email, \"Thanks for the interest, but I don't have anything to add to your story.\" And Christopher and Steve Bannon did not respond to multiple requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the fact that the film was the first to have the Bannon Film Industries banner suggests the company was not launched with politics in mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindy Affrime, a producer of independent films who describes herself as a \"big lefty,\" met Bannon in the early 1990s. Affrime says she saw no hints of Bannon's ideology in those days. Instead, she says, he focused on projects with buzz or money attached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My opinion about Steve and why he did anything he did while he was in Hollywood was it was the lowest-hanging fruit,\" says Affrime.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Big Thinkers' and Shakespeare in Space\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another piece of evidence that Bannon's views evolved in Hollywood comes from Julia Jones, a screenwriter who worked on and off with Steve Bannon for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones, who is a Bernie Sanders supporter, met Bannon in the early 1990s, and says that she and Bannon planned dozens of projects that had little or nothing to do with politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We adapted Titus Andronicus in outer space,\" Jones says. \"It was a horrible script. Oh, so embarrassing. And we thought it was brilliant!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"DRufHtyGfnF7ZjXU2Mm8awGkv8whwUcy\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones provided NPR with a document listing their planned projects as of March 2004, none of which are overtly partisan. This document has not previously been reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On that list was a TV show about ancient philosophers and \"big thinkers\" called \"Those Who Knew.\" (\"He was very into Plato, very into Marcus Aurelius,\" Jones says.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says they also talked about developing a film about the Carter family — but not the political Carters. They wanted to make a film about the musical Carters (as in June Carter).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are multiple projects on the list featuring melodramatic storylines about naval officers, like \"That Hamilton Woman\" and \"Navy Cross.\" (Bannon was himself a lieutenant in the Navy.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are some hints of Bannon's ideology in that list, like \"Weedpatch,\" a documentary series that would tell the true stories of working-class struggle that inspired \u003cem>The Grapes Of Wrath\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of these projects ever came to fruition.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How Ronald Reagan Changed Bannon's Trajectory\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Later in 2004, Bannon got involved with a project that actually got made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a documentary about Ronald Reagan called \u003cem>In The Face Of Evil: Reagan's War In Word And Deed\u003c/em>, and the film dramatically changed his trajectory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film casts Reagan's struggle against the Soviet Union as a war between good and evil. The film's narrator describes communism as just one more example of \"the beast,\" a kind of recurrent evil force that gave the world Bolshevism, fascism and Nazism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film was not a major success. It has an 11 percent rating on the review aggregator \u003ca href=\"https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/reagan_in_the_face_of_evil\">Rotten Tomatoes\u003c/a>, and the film grossed only $110,000, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=inthefaceofevil.htm\">Box Office Mojo\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ZxOpmOi54CF9gVKosJbpzL8N9m6WWOaE\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then Bannon screened the film at a conservative film festival in Los Angeles, and according to Joshua Green, author of \u003cem>Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency\u003c/em>, that's where Bannon met Andrew Breitbart. At the time, Breitbart had just co-written a book that excoriated Hollywood's culture of celebrity, and would soon start making plans for his own website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breitbart often described using the tools of Hollywood to take down what he saw as the liberal media and political elite. Bannon was attracted to that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Breitbart had this effect on a lot of people, not just Steve Bannon,\" Joshua Green says, \"the idea that he was this kind of pied piper, who was doing something very fun and exciting and important and doing it, you know, in the belly of the beast — in liberal Hollywood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around that same time, Bannon also met David Bossie, the head of the conservative group Citizens United, a key source of funding for conservative documentaries. Bannon and Bossie would both go on years later to hold top positions in Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at that point, the list of projects from Steve Bannon and Julia Jones changes. Jones provided NPR with a second document from November 2004, which includes many overtly partisan projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some examples:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\"Michael Moore Hates America\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\"Jihad: The War Against the West\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\"Is It True What They Say About Ann (The Ann Coulter Project)\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The bottom of the document also includes this paragraph, \"The key to the success of the conservative documentary lies in tying together compatible funding sources, e.g., the NRA, church and political groups, while leveraging off the media base of AM Talk Radio and Cable news.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point, Jones says, Bannon told her he wanted to be \"the Leni Riefenstahl of the GOP.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riefenstahl was an infamous and highly effective German propagandist, who made films for the Nazis. And it seems Bannon has \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/steve-bannon-films-movies-documentaries-trump-hollywood-214495\">embraced the association.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says Bannon simply became too political for her, and the two eventually parted ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"sr2iCqD79CTaxuIvAZFJECKCyehDKALI\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subsequently, Bannon focused on political documentaries like \u003cem>District of Corruption\u003c/em>,\u003cem> Generation Zero \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Battle for America\u003c/em>. And while obtaining funding for independent films proved difficult, Bannon found a steadier stream of funding for conservative films.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That strategy ended up propelling Bannon to Breitbart News and eventually his job as chief strategist at the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bannon learned from Andrew Breitbart how to use the tools of Hollywood against its elites. Now he's trying to take those lessons to blow up the Republican establishment and keep himself at the center of American politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=How+Steve+Bannon%27s+Time+In+Hollywood+Changed+Him&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NPR podcast \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/series/469833353/embedded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Embedded\u003c/a>\u003c/em> has found new evidence that the man who helped engineer the Trump political juggernaut underwent a major evolution during his time in, of all places, Hollywood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/558679167/558682688\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Before Politics, a Search for the Next Barney the Dinosaur\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Exhibit A in Steve Bannon's evolution might be a 30-minute highlight reel featuring the comedic hijinks of the sports mascot the San Diego Chicken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, some back story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bannon came to Los Angeles in the late 1980s, while he was working for Goldman Sachs. As \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/01/how-hollywood-remembers-steve-bannon\">the New Yorker reported\u003c/a>, the investment bank wanted to \"expand its presence in the entertainment business.\" Soon after, Bannon decided to start his own investment company, and got interested in producing films himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around that time, Bannon created his own film company, called Bannon Film Industries, where he worked with his brother, Christopher T. Bannon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film company, like Bannon himself, went on to focus on politics. Its most famous production is probably the anti-Hillary Clinton film \u003cem>Clinton Cash\u003c/em>, based on a book released around the time Clinton launched her 2016 presidential campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's not how it started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR's Embedded team unearthed a 1993 article in the \u003cem>Richmond Times-Dispatch\u003c/em>, Bannon's hometown newspaper, featuring the kind of headline you don't usually see associated with Steve Bannon: \"THE FAMOUS CHICKEN IS POISED FOR BARNEY-STYLE CAREER LAUNCH\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Famous Chicken is also known as The San Diego Chicken, who is also known as Ted Giannoulas, who is also known as \"a guy who dons a chicken suit for fun and notoriety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1993, Christopher Bannon co-wrote \u003cem>The Chicken's Greatest Bits\u003c/em>, a 37-minute tape, available by mail order, featuring highlights of some of Giannoulas' act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a lot of film products we're shopping around,\" Christopher Bannon told the newspaper, \"but 'The Chicken's Greatest Bits' is the first one to carry the Bannon Film Industries banner.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11625021\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/BannonChicken-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"The Chicken's Greatest Bits, featuring sports mascot the San Diego Chicken, was produced by Bannon Film Industries in 1993.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/BannonChicken.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/BannonChicken-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/BannonChicken-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/BannonChicken-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/BannonChicken-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 'Chicken's Greatest Bits,' featuring sports mascot the San Diego Chicken, was produced by Bannon Film Industries in 1993. \u003ccite>(Tom Dreiscbach/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the paper, Bannon Film Industries had big plans for The Famous Chicken, including \"a series of videos, a possible TV show, toys, games and maybe a low-budget movie along the lines of '\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je3jfepymQM\">Ernest Goes to Camp\u003c/a>.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ultimately our goal is to build a Barney-the-dinosaur-like industry,\" Christopher Bannon said\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong> \"This video is really just the gateway event into The Chicken industry, as silly as it sounds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR was able to buy the used VHS tape from Amazon for $2.99.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some highlights:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The Famous Chicken \"laying\" a baseball like an egg.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \"Grand Hatching,\" where, \"with all the pomp and circumstance of a coronation\" the Chicken punches through a giant 10-foot egg to the soundtrack of \"Thus Spake Zarathustra.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And \"The Homebird Rap,\" where the Chicken performs an \"Ice Ice Baby\" parody song while wearing an American flag jumpsuit, black sunglasses and a Vanilla Ice-esque toupee.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/event/embeddedVideo.php?storyId=558906151&mediaId=559057077\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear how much direct involvement Steve Bannon had with \u003cem>The Chicken's Greatest Bits\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ted Giannoulas told NPR in an email, \"Thanks for the interest, but I don't have anything to add to your story.\" And Christopher and Steve Bannon did not respond to multiple requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the fact that the film was the first to have the Bannon Film Industries banner suggests the company was not launched with politics in mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindy Affrime, a producer of independent films who describes herself as a \"big lefty,\" met Bannon in the early 1990s. Affrime says she saw no hints of Bannon's ideology in those days. Instead, she says, he focused on projects with buzz or money attached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My opinion about Steve and why he did anything he did while he was in Hollywood was it was the lowest-hanging fruit,\" says Affrime.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Big Thinkers' and Shakespeare in Space\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another piece of evidence that Bannon's views evolved in Hollywood comes from Julia Jones, a screenwriter who worked on and off with Steve Bannon for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones, who is a Bernie Sanders supporter, met Bannon in the early 1990s, and says that she and Bannon planned dozens of projects that had little or nothing to do with politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We adapted Titus Andronicus in outer space,\" Jones says. \"It was a horrible script. Oh, so embarrassing. And we thought it was brilliant!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones provided NPR with a document listing their planned projects as of March 2004, none of which are overtly partisan. This document has not previously been reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On that list was a TV show about ancient philosophers and \"big thinkers\" called \"Those Who Knew.\" (\"He was very into Plato, very into Marcus Aurelius,\" Jones says.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says they also talked about developing a film about the Carter family — but not the political Carters. They wanted to make a film about the musical Carters (as in June Carter).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are multiple projects on the list featuring melodramatic storylines about naval officers, like \"That Hamilton Woman\" and \"Navy Cross.\" (Bannon was himself a lieutenant in the Navy.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are some hints of Bannon's ideology in that list, like \"Weedpatch,\" a documentary series that would tell the true stories of working-class struggle that inspired \u003cem>The Grapes Of Wrath\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of these projects ever came to fruition.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How Ronald Reagan Changed Bannon's Trajectory\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Later in 2004, Bannon got involved with a project that actually got made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a documentary about Ronald Reagan called \u003cem>In The Face Of Evil: Reagan's War In Word And Deed\u003c/em>, and the film dramatically changed his trajectory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film casts Reagan's struggle against the Soviet Union as a war between good and evil. The film's narrator describes communism as just one more example of \"the beast,\" a kind of recurrent evil force that gave the world Bolshevism, fascism and Nazism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film was not a major success. It has an 11 percent rating on the review aggregator \u003ca href=\"https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/reagan_in_the_face_of_evil\">Rotten Tomatoes\u003c/a>, and the film grossed only $110,000, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=inthefaceofevil.htm\">Box Office Mojo\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then Bannon screened the film at a conservative film festival in Los Angeles, and according to Joshua Green, author of \u003cem>Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency\u003c/em>, that's where Bannon met Andrew Breitbart. 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"content": "\u003cp>Throughout his presidential campaign and since, President Trump has made bold assertions about his charitable giving. But as the \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/washington-posts-david-fahrenthold-wins-pulitzer-prize-for-dogged-reporting-of-trumps-philanthropy/2017/04/10/dd535d2e-1dfb-11e7-be2a-3a1fb24d4671_story.html?utm_term=.9c73d5f29b4a\"> has thoroughly documented\u003c/a>, those boasts of philanthropy don't always stand up to scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now NPR has taken a closer look at the charitable-giving claims made by a Trump property, the Trump National Golf Club, Los Angeles. We have found that the golf club's charitable giving has followed the same pattern — falling far short of what the organization claimed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as this summer, the club declared on its website: \"We are proud to have provided $5 million to the following charitable causes since our opening.\" It listed nearly 200 recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, NPR's \u003cem>Embedded\u003c/em> podcast and conflicts-of-interest team combed through that list to verify the assertions.\u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2797213/Trump-Donations.pdf\"> NPR cross-referenced the golf club's website with a document\u003c/a> that the Trump campaign gave to The Associated Press in 2015, detailing charitable gifts from 2010 to 2015. NPR also called and emailed dozens of organizations to find out whether they have a record of a donation from the Trump National Golf Club, the Trump Organization or VH Property Corp., the LLC that technically owns the golf course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That reporting suggests the club's donations have fallen well short of $5 million and are much closer to approximately $800,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/558352411/558558747\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR has repeatedly contacted the Trump Organization and the golf club manager, sending questions via phone calls, emails, letters and a fax message. They have not responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the club did change its assertions. In early September, about a month into NPR's reporting, the Trump Organization took down the list of organizations from its website and removed the claim about having donated $5 million. (You can still view the page via the \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20170630114313/http:/www.trumpnationallosangeles.com/philanthrophy\">Internet Archive\u003c/a> as well as \u003ca href=\"http://archive.is/http:/www.trumpnationallosangeles.com/philanthrophy\">archive.is\u003c/a>. For comparison, \u003ca href=\"http://www.trumpnationallosangeles.com/philanthrophy\">here is the current webpage\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"i2WprzrzHgqq65wrWZp8TDWVySTgvt86\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be clear, NPR did confirm that the club, located outside Los Angeles in Rancho Palos Verdes, has made charitable donations. The discrepancies involve the amounts of gifts and numbers of recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through interviews and examinations of publicly available documents, here's what NPR has found:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Seventeen organizations listed on the Trump National website said that they could not find any record of a donation from the golf club.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Several organizations listed on the website are not charities at all. The list includes a city government, a state agency and a branch of the U.S. military.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Most organizations received small contributions from the golf club, including donations of $140. Most of the contributions to organizations on the list were not in the form of cash but in-kind donations, like a gift certificate for a round of golf or \"Sunday brunch for two.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In the end, NPR was able to confirm only about $800,000 in donations, less than one-fifth of what was claimed.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[TrumpGiving]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Missing Donations and Discrepancies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As several organizations pointed out, the fact that 17 of them could not find a record of a donation does not necessarily mean they never received one. It could suggest that the donations were not significant enough to be remembered or written down, or it might be chalked up to a lack of precision in naming the recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the Trump Campaign document listed more than $21,000 in donations to the \"UCLA Foundation\" and the \"UCLA Women's Golf Program.\" Brian Haas, a spokesman for the university, said UCLA searched multiple times for records of donations, but came up empty-handed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are unaware of these particular donations,\" Haas wrote in an email. \"If you can coax some additional information from the Trump Organization, perhaps that would help.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"rFyxKo32ECifNdOhdcK1YHBkIwYr2KC9\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump website also cited a donation to \"Cystic Fibrosis\" — as in the genetic disease, rather than a specific charity supporting research. The Trump Campaign document also has an entry for a $1,182.50 donation to \"Child Abuse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several organizations listed are not charities at all, such as the City of Avalon, California, and the California Department of Veteran Affairs. Both said they could find no record of a donation from Trump or his golf club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there's the entry for a $152.14 donation to the \"U.S. Department of the Navy.\" (That amount indicates the donation was for a gift certificate for \"Sunday brunch or two\" at the golf club.) In an email, a Navy official told NPR, \"We have no information about whether or how this specific gift was given to the Navy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a handful of organizations in the Rancho Palos Verdes area do report receiving \"generous\" cash contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One example comes from John Williams. A former Kiwanis Club president, Williams now runs the Peninsula Symphony, a small orchestra that performs free concerts. He says Trump helped support the Kiwanis Club's Palos Verdes Marathon from 2005 to 2007, with three donations of $15,000 each, and has supported the symphony through in-kind donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would have to say he's been a very good community supporter,\" Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In-kind Donations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>NPR's other key finding was that overwhelmingly, charitable giving by Trump National involved gift certificates, such as the \"Sunday brunch for two\" or \"twosome for golf\" (worth approximately $600).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em> has \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-portrait-of-trump-the-donor-free-rounds-of-golf-but-no-personal-cash/2016/04/10/373b9b92-fb40-11e5-9140-e61d062438bb_story.html?utm_term=.fe3ad4ea93f4\">documented\u003c/a> that Trump properties around the country also prefer this type of donation. Some nonprofits welcome such gifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It may not be altruism. It may just be marketing his business.'\u003ccite>Daniel Borochoff, CharityWatch\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Judith Opdahl, the executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cancersupportredondobeach.org/\">Cancer Support Community Redondo Beach\u003c/a>, did not offer specific dollar amounts but says the Trump Organization has been \"very philanthropic\" by providing discounted event space and in-kind donations for charity auctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Borochoff, of the charity watchdog CharityWatch, says many companies use in-kind donations as a way to promote their business and build goodwill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the public or potential customers have good feelings towards the business, they're more likely to play golf there or shop there,\" Borochoff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he is skeptical about the value of such philanthropy, noting that such donations help build the Trump brand and bring in new customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It may not be altruism,\" Borochoff said. \"It may just be marketing his business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borochoff says another reason companies offer in-kind donations is that such gifts rarely cost the company much money. They also frequently come with strings attached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"fYC7k4IloWdidnt6quuJg3b6SSC9DqcR\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cui.edu/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=S1iocEalHjA%3D&portalid=0&language=en-US\">charity event held by Concordia University, Irvine\u003c/a> auctioned a \"twosome of Golf\" at the Trump golf club. But the gift certificate was valid only Mondays through Thursdays and expired within six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most cases, experts say, cash donations are also much more valuable to a charity than in-kind donations. To turn a gift certificate into cash, a charity typically must hold an auction, which takes time and effort. And the bid usually comes in at less than the market value of the in-kind donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacob Harold, the president of GuideStar, which tracks nonprofits, says when companies claim an in-kind donation is worth the full sticker price, it can create a false impression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you are saying, 'We gave $5 million away over the last few years,' and that's at market prices,\" says Harold, \"that's actually somewhat misleading.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Controversial Source for the $5 Million Estimate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So how does the total charitable giving of Trump's golf club stack up? NPR was able to verify only about $800,000 in charitable gifts, even treating in-kind donations at full market value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the Trump Organization did not respond, NPR could not ask how the club reached the $5 million figure listed on its website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's possible the club was including a sometimes controversial federal tax break: conservation easements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2015, Trump made an agreement with the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy to set aside the golf course's 11.5-acre driving range as environmentally valuable open space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"XzZs3sMTB9Fc5FpydKa5CTq40Kp5g1Vy\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The easement protects the land and prohibits harmful uses on the property such as dumping, landfill, and also has restrictions on waste and impermeable surfacing among many other items,\" said a \u003ca href=\"http://pvplc.org/_news/docs/releases/TrumpConEasementEDNoQuote.pdf\">press release\u003c/a> from the land conservancy. \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailybreeze.com/environment-and-nature/20150115/donald-trump-turns-over-115-acre-easement-in-rancho-palos-verdes-for-open-space\">Trump said\u003c/a> the easement represented a significant gift, because the land was worth \"much more than $25 million,\" and he could get a windfall if he built and sold houses on that property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/review-finds-trumps-charity-donations-modest/\">as The Associated Press has reported\u003c/a>, it's unclear whether Trump ever had concrete plans to build houses on the property. City officials also told NPR that Trump faced significant barriers to building because of the area's geological instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservation easements can help protect the environment and can also offer valuable tax breaks for companies, especially golf courses. They've also come under \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trumps-land-donations-put-him-in-line-for-conservation-tax-breaks-1457656717\">increased scrutiny from the Internal Revenue Service.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's California golf course before and after the agreement looks the same. The driving range is still a driving range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The smell test isn't great in that case,\" Harold, of GuideStar, said. Claiming a charitable donation for preserving a driving range as open space \"doesn't feel like a sacrifice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear what, if any, deductions Trump or the Trump Organization claimed from the easement agreement. The land conservancy itself says it does not assign dollar values to the land. So that may be a question only Trump's tax returns can answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has not released those.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If your organization has received a donation from Trump National Golf Club, Los Angeles, or if you believe your organization was wrongly included on the golf club's website, please let us know. You can reach Tom Dreisbach at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"mailto:tdreisbach@npr.org\">\u003cem>tdreisbach@npr.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR's Sonari Glinton contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. 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(You can still view the page via the \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20170630114313/http:/www.trumpnationallosangeles.com/philanthrophy\">Internet Archive\u003c/a> as well as \u003ca href=\"http://archive.is/http:/www.trumpnationallosangeles.com/philanthrophy\">archive.is\u003c/a>. For comparison, \u003ca href=\"http://www.trumpnationallosangeles.com/philanthrophy\">here is the current webpage\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be clear, NPR did confirm that the club, located outside Los Angeles in Rancho Palos Verdes, has made charitable donations. The discrepancies involve the amounts of gifts and numbers of recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through interviews and examinations of publicly available documents, here's what NPR has found:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Seventeen organizations listed on the Trump National website said that they could not find any record of a donation from the golf club.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Several organizations listed on the website are not charities at all. The list includes a city government, a state agency and a branch of the U.S. military.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Most organizations received small contributions from the golf club, including donations of $140. Most of the contributions to organizations on the list were not in the form of cash but in-kind donations, like a gift certificate for a round of golf or \"Sunday brunch for two.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In the end, NPR was able to confirm only about $800,000 in donations, less than one-fifth of what was claimed.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[TrumpGiving]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Missing Donations and Discrepancies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As several organizations pointed out, the fact that 17 of them could not find a record of a donation does not necessarily mean they never received one. It could suggest that the donations were not significant enough to be remembered or written down, or it might be chalked up to a lack of precision in naming the recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the Trump Campaign document listed more than $21,000 in donations to the \"UCLA Foundation\" and the \"UCLA Women's Golf Program.\" Brian Haas, a spokesman for the university, said UCLA searched multiple times for records of donations, but came up empty-handed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are unaware of these particular donations,\" Haas wrote in an email. \"If you can coax some additional information from the Trump Organization, perhaps that would help.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump website also cited a donation to \"Cystic Fibrosis\" — as in the genetic disease, rather than a specific charity supporting research. The Trump Campaign document also has an entry for a $1,182.50 donation to \"Child Abuse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several organizations listed are not charities at all, such as the City of Avalon, California, and the California Department of Veteran Affairs. Both said they could find no record of a donation from Trump or his golf club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there's the entry for a $152.14 donation to the \"U.S. Department of the Navy.\" (That amount indicates the donation was for a gift certificate for \"Sunday brunch or two\" at the golf club.) In an email, a Navy official told NPR, \"We have no information about whether or how this specific gift was given to the Navy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a handful of organizations in the Rancho Palos Verdes area do report receiving \"generous\" cash contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One example comes from John Williams. A former Kiwanis Club president, Williams now runs the Peninsula Symphony, a small orchestra that performs free concerts. He says Trump helped support the Kiwanis Club's Palos Verdes Marathon from 2005 to 2007, with three donations of $15,000 each, and has supported the symphony through in-kind donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would have to say he's been a very good community supporter,\" Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In-kind Donations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>NPR's other key finding was that overwhelmingly, charitable giving by Trump National involved gift certificates, such as the \"Sunday brunch for two\" or \"twosome for golf\" (worth approximately $600).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em> has \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-portrait-of-trump-the-donor-free-rounds-of-golf-but-no-personal-cash/2016/04/10/373b9b92-fb40-11e5-9140-e61d062438bb_story.html?utm_term=.fe3ad4ea93f4\">documented\u003c/a> that Trump properties around the country also prefer this type of donation. Some nonprofits welcome such gifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It may not be altruism. It may just be marketing his business.'\u003ccite>Daniel Borochoff, CharityWatch\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Judith Opdahl, the executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cancersupportredondobeach.org/\">Cancer Support Community Redondo Beach\u003c/a>, did not offer specific dollar amounts but says the Trump Organization has been \"very philanthropic\" by providing discounted event space and in-kind donations for charity auctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Borochoff, of the charity watchdog CharityWatch, says many companies use in-kind donations as a way to promote their business and build goodwill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the public or potential customers have good feelings towards the business, they're more likely to play golf there or shop there,\" Borochoff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he is skeptical about the value of such philanthropy, noting that such donations help build the Trump brand and bring in new customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It may not be altruism,\" Borochoff said. \"It may just be marketing his business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borochoff says another reason companies offer in-kind donations is that such gifts rarely cost the company much money. They also frequently come with strings attached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cui.edu/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=S1iocEalHjA%3D&portalid=0&language=en-US\">charity event held by Concordia University, Irvine\u003c/a> auctioned a \"twosome of Golf\" at the Trump golf club. But the gift certificate was valid only Mondays through Thursdays and expired within six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most cases, experts say, cash donations are also much more valuable to a charity than in-kind donations. To turn a gift certificate into cash, a charity typically must hold an auction, which takes time and effort. And the bid usually comes in at less than the market value of the in-kind donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacob Harold, the president of GuideStar, which tracks nonprofits, says when companies claim an in-kind donation is worth the full sticker price, it can create a false impression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you are saying, 'We gave $5 million away over the last few years,' and that's at market prices,\" says Harold, \"that's actually somewhat misleading.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Controversial Source for the $5 Million Estimate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So how does the total charitable giving of Trump's golf club stack up? NPR was able to verify only about $800,000 in charitable gifts, even treating in-kind donations at full market value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the Trump Organization did not respond, NPR could not ask how the club reached the $5 million figure listed on its website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's possible the club was including a sometimes controversial federal tax break: conservation easements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2015, Trump made an agreement with the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy to set aside the golf course's 11.5-acre driving range as environmentally valuable open space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The easement protects the land and prohibits harmful uses on the property such as dumping, landfill, and also has restrictions on waste and impermeable surfacing among many other items,\" said a \u003ca href=\"http://pvplc.org/_news/docs/releases/TrumpConEasementEDNoQuote.pdf\">press release\u003c/a> from the land conservancy. \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailybreeze.com/environment-and-nature/20150115/donald-trump-turns-over-115-acre-easement-in-rancho-palos-verdes-for-open-space\">Trump said\u003c/a> the easement represented a significant gift, because the land was worth \"much more than $25 million,\" and he could get a windfall if he built and sold houses on that property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/review-finds-trumps-charity-donations-modest/\">as The Associated Press has reported\u003c/a>, it's unclear whether Trump ever had concrete plans to build houses on the property. City officials also told NPR that Trump faced significant barriers to building because of the area's geological instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservation easements can help protect the environment and can also offer valuable tax breaks for companies, especially golf courses. They've also come under \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trumps-land-donations-put-him-in-line-for-conservation-tax-breaks-1457656717\">increased scrutiny from the Internal Revenue Service.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's California golf course before and after the agreement looks the same. The driving range is still a driving range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The smell test isn't great in that case,\" Harold, of GuideStar, said. Claiming a charitable donation for preserving a driving range as open space \"doesn't feel like a sacrifice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear what, if any, deductions Trump or the Trump Organization claimed from the easement agreement. 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"content": "\u003cp>A federal judge in Maryland has blocked parts of President Trump's most recent attempt to impose broad limits on who can enter the U.S., granting a motion for a preliminary injunction that was filed by plaintiffs led by the International Refugee Assistance Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs \"have established that they are likely to succeed on the merits,\" District Judge Theodore Chuang wrote in the Tuesday order in dealing another setback to the Trump administration's attempt to ban travel to the U.S. by citizens of certain countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his ruling, Chuang wrote that the president's own tweets helped convince him that the latest policy is an \"inextricable re-animation of the twice-enjoined Muslim ban\" that Trump called for on the campaign trail, and is therefore likely to be found unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"wgnoDHWxXqij0Wvjbo06OkodU7bz6qRj\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chuang said the plaintiffs \"are likely to suffer irreparable harm in the absence of injunctive relief, and that the balance of the equities and the public interest favor an injunction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge's order was filed one day before Trump's ban was set to take effect. 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Religious discrimination with window dressing is still unconstitutional.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's latest attempt at a travel ban came in late September, when he issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/09/27/2017-20899/enhancing-vetting-capabilities-and-processes-for-detecting-attempted-entry-into-the-united-states-by\">Presidential Proclamation 9645\u003c/a>, titled Enhancing Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted Entry Into the United States by Terrorists or Other Public-Safety Threats.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration argues the travel restrictions are needed to protect national security. Justice Department lawyers say the government conducted an extensive worldwide review of other countries' security and intelligence-sharing practices, and then crafted new, tailored travel restrictions targeting countries that failed to comply with baseline U.S. standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"7C6ygmTQtee8YOC5RM3ct4wJszng5gtL\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the most recent iteration of the ban, five of the countries had been named in previous versions; a sixth country, Chad, was added to the list, while Sudan was removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite those changes, the courts found the ban to be tainted by the same problems that tripped up the administration's earlier travel ban orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To the extent that the Government might have provided additional evidence to establish that national security is now the primary purpose for the travel ban, it has not done so,\" Chuang wrote in his ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration justified the new travel restrictions in part by referring to a classified report issued by the Department of Homeland Security, dated Sept. 15, 2017. 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It would allow some of the administration's new restrictions to take effect, but only for people who lack \"a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States\" — echoing the language \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/26/533934989/supreme-court-will-hear-cases-on-president-trumps-travel-ban\">used by the Supreme Court\u003c/a> when it partially restored part of an earlier travel ban in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two cases had been on the Supreme Court's calendar for the current term, but the court \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/25/553490088/supreme-court-removes-cases-over-trumps-travel-ban-from-calendar\">removed them \"pending further order\"\u003c/a> in September, after Trump issued a revised and expanded ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president's ban primarily targeted people from Muslim-majority countries — Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. In an apparent attempt to avoid the \"Muslim ban\" label that was applied to previous restrictions, Trump's proclamation also included citizens of North Korea and some officials of Venezuela's government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In both Maryland and Hawaii, the judges limited their latest rulings to travelers from the six Muslim-majority countries on the list. North Korea and Venezuela are not affected by these rulings; the restrictions on travel from those countries can go into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his memorandum opinion, Chuang noted that then-candidate Trump posted a document called \"Statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration\" on his website in December 2015. He also traced other references by Trump, including repeated calls for keeping Muslims out of the U.S. and, once in office, an embrace of the presidential order as a \"travel ban.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After federal judges blocked the president's earlier executive orders, Trump tweeted that the ban should be larger and tougher. \"This Court is obligated to pay attention to such statements,\" Chuang wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Civil Liberties Union has been arguing the case on behalf of the IRAP. Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, said Wednesday, \"Like the two versions before it, President Trump's latest travel ban is still a Muslim ban at its core. And like the two before it, this one is going down to defeat in the courts. Religious discrimination with window dressing is still unconstitutional.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's latest attempt at a travel ban came in late September, when he issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/09/27/2017-20899/enhancing-vetting-capabilities-and-processes-for-detecting-attempted-entry-into-the-united-states-by\">Presidential Proclamation 9645\u003c/a>, titled Enhancing Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted Entry Into the United States by Terrorists or Other Public-Safety Threats.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration argues the travel restrictions are needed to protect national security. Justice Department lawyers say the government conducted an extensive worldwide review of other countries' security and intelligence-sharing practices, and then crafted new, tailored travel restrictions targeting countries that failed to comply with baseline U.S. standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the most recent iteration of the ban, five of the countries had been named in previous versions; a sixth country, Chad, was added to the list, while Sudan was removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite those changes, the courts found the ban to be tainted by the same problems that tripped up the administration's earlier travel ban orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To the extent that the Government might have provided additional evidence to establish that national security is now the primary purpose for the travel ban, it has not done so,\" Chuang wrote in his ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration justified the new travel restrictions in part by referring to a classified report issued by the Department of Homeland Security, dated Sept. 15, 2017. But, Chuang notes, the administration did not share that report with the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chuang also seems skeptical that the administration has applied its own security findings consistently. For example, Somalia was found to have adequate information-sharing practices, but it's still included in the total ban on immigration. The administration found that Venezuela, meanwhile, has inadequate information-sharing practices — but only government officials are barred from entry to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department is expected to appeal both rulings, meaning this version of the travel ban may also be headed for the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 4:15 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge in Hawaii has partially blocked President Trump's third attempt to restrict entry into the U.S. for citizens of certain countries. The Department of Justice says it plans to appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newest version of the travel ban was due to go into effect on Wednesday. Like two previous executive orders, it was challenged in multiple courts. The new ruling by Judge Derrick K. Watson is only one piece of the complicated legal puzzle over the long-term fate of the president's efforts to limit travel to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his ruling, Watson wrote that the third version of the ban, like those before it, \"lacks sufficient findings that the entry of more than 150 million nationals from six specified countries would be 'detrimental to the interests of the United States,' \" evidence that he says would be necessary for the ban to be enforceable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, he issued a temporary restraining order that will keep the ban from being enforced for six of the eight named countries — the six majority-Muslim nations. 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Trump\u003c/em> is the latest in the legal tug of war over Trump's attempt to impose a ban on travelers from predominantly Muslim nations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this temporary restraining order is far from the end of the story. The Department of Justice says it will appeal the decision, and another federal court is also expected to rule on the third version of the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original ban, signed by the president in the first week of his term, targeted seven countries — Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Sudan — for 90 days. Syrian refugees were banned indefinitely. The ban also was imposed on lawful permanent residents, commonly known as green card holders, and travelers who had valid visas issued before the ban was to be implemented. That action met with immediate resistance as \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/29/512304697/dispatches-of-discontent-protesters-of-immigration-ban-take-to-the-streetshttp:/www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/29/512304697/dispatches-of-discontent-protesters-of-immigration-ban-take-to-the-streets\">protesters flooded airports\u003c/a> in major cities in support of travelers from those countries. Legal challenges to this first ban were successful, as a federal district court and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/10/514491290/5-key-points-from-the-appeals-courts-travel-ban-ruling\">blocked it.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early March, Trump signed a new executive order. As NPR's Joel Rose \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/03/06/518858238/trump-signs-revised-order-banning-arrivals-from-6-majority-muslim-countries\">reported\u003c/a>, \"There are some key differences between Trump's original order and this one. It applies only to people from six majority-Muslim countries. Iraq has been dropped from the list. Lawful permanent residents or green card holders are explicitly exempt. So are travelers who already have valid visas. And refugees from Syria are no longer banned indefinitely, though the U.S. refugee program is still suspended for 120 days and the number of refugees admitted this year cut by more than half.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watson, the judge in Hawaii, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/03/15/520329249/federal-judge-in-hawaii-issues-order-blocking-trumps-travel-ban\">blocked\u003c/a> that second travel ban, too, saying that it was unconstitutional because it disfavored a particular religion. A court in Maryland came to the same conclusion. The parallel rulings were upheld by appellate courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That set the stage for the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene. In late June, the justices allowed Trump's travel ban to take \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/29/534947770/hawaii-asks-federal-court-for-clarification-as-travel-ban-goes-into-effect\">partial effect\u003c/a>, but they allowed people with \"close familial relationships\" with someone in the U.S. to enter the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"0jt8N92ZvcorazNw7AhGYhfG09UZlVr7\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate then turned on which familial relationships would be considered valid. The administration interpreted that decision as favoring only certain family members such as parents, spouses, children, adult sons or daughters, sons- and daughters-in-laws, siblings and fiances/fiancees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Left out were grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins of people currently living in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, the 9th Circuit ruled the government couldn't bar entry to grandparents and other extended family members. However, the Supreme Court did allow the administration to ban refugees, even if they had formal ties to U.S. resettlement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, late last month, the president amended the travel ban, as NPR's Brian Naylor \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/09/25/553532495/white-house-amends-travel-ban-to-expand-beyond-muslim-majority-countries\">reported\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The latest version of the travel ban — version 3.0, if you will — limits travel from Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen. The nations of Chad, North Korea and Venezuela have been added. And Sudan, which was part of the original ban, has been dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The new rules take effect Oct. 18. And unlike previous versions, the new ban is not temporary. 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