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the salaries of cops who worked the task force (the task force who helped with finding and apprehending people to deport). The sheriff "referred all questions to an ICE spokesperson (they never answered any of my questions)."
- Mother Jones March-April 2026, p. 24

The story features conditions in Grundy, in Buchanan County, a little town in southwestern Virginia right near where Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky all meet. For those who zoom in trying to find it, find the farthest east tip of Kentucky, and about 5 miles east of the border is Grundy.

Title of article:"He Thinks Our People Are Idiots." Trump betrayed the people of coal country. They love him anyway.

About how poor the people there are, on average, and how dependent on the programs that Trump is cutting. And how they rationalize it the way only goobers can.

DJT isn't even saving the coal jobs there -- the coal mined there is the type used for making steel, not for powering electric power generating plants. And DJT's tariff war with China (a 15% tariff on the coal) has meant China, which was the main customer for this coal, is not importing any. And DJT put the Biden silica rule on hold, which limited miners' exposure to silica dust, which causes the most severe forms of black lung disease.

Trump told Playboy magazine back in 1990:
"If I had been the son of a coal miner, I would have left the damn mines. But most people don't have the imagination -- or whatever -- to leave their mine. They don't have it." p. 22

In short, Hurley says, "He thinks our people are idiots".