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The Hartmann Report

COVID CONTINUES

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

 Many of the families of people who have died of COVID-19 here in the United States have considered suing Trump, but it is nearly impossible to sue a sitting president, and Bill Barr has made it clear that the Justice Department will not hold Trump accountable for anything, up to and including shooting somebody on Fifth Avenue.

Therefore, we here in the United States, who are the victims of his criminal malfeasance, and the rest of the world who are victims of the United States and Brazil becoming the uncontrolled epicenters of a worldwide explosion of disease, must act.

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:17.0

Welcome to Tom Hartman here with you.

0:19.0

Our question for the day, how do we stop them from killing more people?

0:24.0

Them specifically I'm talking about Donald Trump and Jerry Bolsonaro.

0:28.0

The epicenter now for the world for this pandemic has moved from the United States to the United States and

0:38.8

Brazil.

0:41.9

We are the two countries where this thing is completely out of control and or largely out of

0:49.3

control.

0:51.7

And you know in the United States you could say state by state, but in Brazil it's like, whoa, it's totally out of control.

0:58.0

And these two guys are essentially refusing to do anything consequential about an epidemic

1:05.3

that is killing massive numbers of their own country's citizens.

1:11.1

And for this in my opinion, Bolsonaro and Trump should be brought before the

1:16.0

international criminal court at the Hague and charged with crimes against humanity.

1:23.5

What do you think?

1:24.8

I mean to compound the situation here,

1:26.8

Trump is now ridiculing people who wear masks,

1:29.4

including Joe Biden.

1:30.8

Wearing mask is one of the most simple, low-cost, effective ways to slow down the

1:36.5

spread of the pandemic and to reduce the number of dead people.

1:42.0

But Trump doesn't want to smear his makeup and so he's suggesting to his

1:45.9

insecure white male followers that wearing a mask somehow makes a man seem

1:50.6

less manly. He's also refusing to do anything about testing at the

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