China's president has announced that they will not negotiate trade, and they are hunkering down for a new 'Long March' to overcome American dominance. Thom agrees with Trump on tariffs to protect U.S. industry, but thinks Trump is doing it stupidly.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 22 May 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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The Chinese president has just declared a new "Long March" to global dominance in the face of American tariffs- Thom asks if Democrats will get behind majority American opinion, or cling to Clintonian free trade and thereby lose the 2020 election to Donald Trump. ~~~~ Thom reads from the Mueller Report, page 32- the further adventures of the Russian-funded Internet Research Agency and their communication with the Trump campaign. ~~~~ Thom continues his brilliant analysis of Trump's China trade strategy. ~~~~ How a 'Buy America' clause in a Green New Deal could invigorate our economy. ~~~~ Helen Rattner with Talk Media News puts her head together with Thom on China trade and other headline issues of the day. ~~~~ The latest economic data from the last three years shows Thom's book title 'Crash of 2016' was correct, but hidden by government deficit spending. Thom exposes the fundamental weakness of the structure of the Reagan economy we're living in, and argues we've got to get back to manufacturing things in this country again.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | And greetings by friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:20.0 | believers in peace, freedom and the American way. |
| 0:24.0 | Huge story. |
| 0:26.5 | Absolutely huge story today in the New York Times that is being, |
| 0:31.0 | as far as I can tell tell completely ignored by the electronic media |
| 0:34.4 | that you need to know about. |
| 0:36.9 | I predict this is going to be one of the principal issues on which the |
| 0:41.0 | 20-20 election at least for president turns and that's trade. I got an |
| 0:47.4 | email from Donald Trump if you just tuned in I've been telling this story for |
| 0:51.5 | years now back in 2015 when Trump announced |
| 0:54.0 | I thought okay there's a freak show going on here I want to get on this guy's |
| 0:57.8 | mailing list so I sent five dollars to his campaign in the name of Fred |
| 1:01.4 | Flintstone I hope that's not a campaign |
| 1:03.7 | finance crime if it is I plead guilty I guess. I've been getting emails ever |
| 1:08.2 | since addressed to Fred and here's one of the most recent ones. Fred, China is cheating the system. |
| 1:15.6 | Now these emails are going out to tens of millions of Americans who have donated to the |
| 1:19.3 | Trump campaign, right? |
| 1:20.8 | Dirty bureaucrats in Washington have allowed China to take advantage of our great nation for far too long. |
| 1:26.0 | We've been a piggy bank that everyone wants to raid and exploit. No more! |
| 1:31.0 | Trump is taking long overdue action by standing up to China's unfair trade policies |
| 1:35.5 | and defending America's intellectual property something cheating Obama |
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