As Trump moves a battle group close to Iran to defend our 'interests', will this wannabe Imperial President use war to distract from his crimes?- chickenhawk John Bolton has done it all before. Plus DNC chair Tom Perez talks shop.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 8 May 2019
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PLEASE NOTE: ---------------------This edition was meant to be published Monday, 6th of May, but was published later in the week by mistake ------------------ Thom probes the evidence that Trump is already trying to start a war to insure his re-election. ------ Remember how GW Bush's team talked us into attacking Iraq, even though Iraq had no WMD's, and nothing to do with 9-11? Now, as Trump sends a Navy battlegroup to the area, and given the recent ultimatum against Iran, what is this all leading to? ------ Trump is normalizing 'the Imperial Presidency' - what are the dangers of the growing American authoritarianism in our government? ------ Thom debunks the Biden 'put em back in chains' myth- just one part of the ever-growing body of right-wing mythmaking- how can we fight it? ------ John Bolton just might get his dream of war with Iran. ------ Tom Perez- chairman of the DNC- talks strategy for countering Bill Barr's lies and other aspects of Trump's authoritarian power grab. ------ Bob Ney- Iran expert and speaker of Farsi- reviews war-monger John Bolton's past actions- including that time he threatened to kill somebody's children if they didn't help start the Iraq war. What is Bolton saying now that the media is ignoring? What is the intention of the chickenhawk ultimatum our government has just threatened Iran with?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:20.0 | believers and peace, freedom, and the American way. Tom Harbin here with you. |
| 0:24.0 | Donald Trump apparently wanting to do what he accused Barack Obama of wanting to do for a long, long time. |
| 0:31.0 | And I retweeted these tweets of Trumps this morning. I couldn't figure |
| 0:36.4 | out how to create a continuous thread with all of his tweets because you have to retweet |
| 0:41.3 | a tweet in order to do it. maybe you know it's beyond me technically |
| 0:45.5 | but so I just retweeted four of his tweets with a comment on each one and |
| 0:50.7 | several the comments are the same but in any case just to get to the beginning |
| 0:55.0 | this is November 29 2011 okay |
| 1:00.4 | Barack Obama president Obama was elected in 2008. |
| 1:04.2 | He was standing for re-election in 2012. |
| 1:09.0 | So this is the fall of 2011. |
| 1:13.0 | It's, you know, just a couple weeks short of a year from the election. |
| 1:17.0 | And Donald Trump tweets, |
| 1:19.0 | In order to get elected, Barack Obama will start a war with Iran. |
| 1:25.8 | So you kind of know that that's how he thinks, right? |
| 1:29.5 | But hey, you know, the way that presidents get reelected is they start wars with Iran. |
| 1:35.4 | And then on October 9, 2012, right, this is a year later, this is three weeks before |
| 1:41.0 | the election, three and a half weeks before the election. |
| 1:43.8 | Now that Obama's poll number, Trump tweets, now that Obama's poll numbers are in a |
| 1:47.5 | tail spin, watch for him to watch a strike on Iran. |
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