The Trump administration is justifying the arrest and detention of protestor Mahmoud Khalil and Rumaisa Aztourk,
who wrote an op-ed in a student newspaper, by calling them Hamas supporters.
But when asked for evidence, the administration doesn't offer any.
Here's a DHS official on NPR.
How did he support Hamas?
Exactly what did he do?
Well, I think you can see it on TV, right?
It's, you know, this is somebody that, you know, we've invited and allowed the students to come into the country,
and he's put himself in the middle of the process of basically throat Palestinian activity.
So where is this allegation coming from?
On Today Explained, it might be coming from the same people who wrote Project 2025.
Project Esther largely flew under the radar until now.
So they didn't actually say whether they took cues from Project Esther.
What they said is, well, it's always been a core principle,
it just so happens those core principles can be found in Project Esther.
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