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The Hartmann Report

AMERICA'S FOUNDERS WOULD HAVE BEEN DISGUSTED BY TODAY'S GOP AND TRUMP

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

No matter how hard Republicans try to reinvent the Founders & Framers in the image of their libertarian billionaire patrons, the reality is that America was history’s first great liberal experiment...Is there a right-wing war against children? A Florida appellate court affirmed an order prohibiting a “parentless” 16-year-old from getting an abortion on the grounds that she is not mature enough “to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy.” Instead, the state will force her to have a child. Plus: Geeky Science! Can a bowl of grapes save your life?

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And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth, and justice, believers, and peace,

0:52.0

freedom in the American way. A lot to talk about today.

0:56.6

Catherine Rampell is asking the question over at the Washington Post, and I'll just toss this,

1:02.4

I mean, after all, it's anything goes to August, right? Let me just toss this out as a question to you.

1:07.3

The headline of her piece is, is there no crime Trump could commit that would lose him GOP support?

1:15.8

I'm trying to think, you know, I mean rape, he presided over the death of hundreds of thousands

1:21.8

of Americans who died unnecessarily from COVID, because he refused to give us all masks and

1:28.4

encourage masking and things like that. So death, rape, theft, he walked away with hundreds of millions

1:38.4

of dollars as president, theft of classified, you know, I just, I can't think of anything, can you?

1:45.8

I suppose, you know, changing his registration to Democratic might do it, but that's not a crime.

1:52.6

So, anyhow, number one. Number two, America's founders would have been disgusted by the modern

1:59.5

day Republican party and Donald Trump. I want to do a deep dive into that in just a moment. That's

2:04.1

my op-ed at HarbinReport.com this morning. Also, is there a right-wing war against children?

2:11.8

And I'll lay out some of the evidence for that. And also geeky science. Can Ebola grapes save your

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