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The Hartmann Report

Can We Stop China, Russia, Murdoch & the "Putin GOP" From Tearing Down our Democracy?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Thom Hartmann, Congress, News, The Hartmann Report, Debate, Democracy, Economics, Climate Change, America

4.38 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

So now we’re all standing largely naked before the coming onslaught of disinformation that is sure to come along with the 2023 and 2024 elections: the lies will be coming fast and furious. Are Trump's GOP opponents in an "Arm's race to out-extreme & out-cruel each other? Shutdown Watch! McCarthy hands the gavel to Gaetz as Jeffries tells the GOP, "We're not paying the ransom note" Holy Moly! Clarence Thomas secretly participated in Koch network donor events.

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This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:48.5

So welcome back to our program and our Trump's opponents in an arm race to out

0:55.4

extreme each other. This is an amazing story. You know, Donald Trump tried his schedule F order,

1:01.4

which would have reclassified basically management level federal employees out of the civil

1:08.4

service system and into you can be fired any old time. And there's 50,000 people out of,

1:14.5

you know, 2.2 million federal workers. And the idea was that he wanted the management of the EPA,

1:20.5

he wanted the management of Homeland Security, he wanted basically the management of every federal

1:24.7

agency to be a Trump loyalist. So, you know, when he said Trump they'd say how high instead of,

1:30.4

you know, resisting many of his efforts. Well, Vivegrama Swami now is saying that instead of just

1:38.7

rescheduling 50,000 people that he wants to just start out with a meat axe, he wants to fire

1:44.0

a million federal workers on day one. Just boom, you know, just, just gut the federal government.

1:51.0

This, of course, is what Vladimir Putin wants for the United States. Why Vivegrama Swami

1:56.2

is promoting this? I don't know. I mean, I know why Trump is saying it because, you know,

1:59.7

it's what Vladimir Putin wants. And probably what I'm a Swami is wanting it because, you know,

2:04.4

the Trump followers have concluded that, you know, what Donald Trump says, they should say too,

2:10.5

and they should try to double and triple down on. But this is truly bizarre. I mean, this is

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