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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Dear Trump Administration Official: History Is Full of Loyal Men Who Thought They’d Be Protected

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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A historical warning about how presidents escape, aides go to prison, and “just following orders” has never saved anyone...

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history is full of loyal men who thought they'd be protected. Dear Trump administration official,

1:16.3

excuse me, I'm writing to you not as a political opponent, but as a historian who spent a lifetime studying what happens when democracies flirt with strong men and otherwise decent

1:21.4

people convince themselves that loyalty to dear leader today will be rewarded by safety and protection tomorrow. It almost never is.

1:32.3

You're out there defending Donald Trump's lawbreaking, cheering his attacks on judges, prosecutors,

1:37.4

immigrants, journalists, and even the Constitution itself. You defend his bribe-taking, the jet from

1:42.4

Qatar, the violence of ice, and his hotel in cryptogrifts.

1:46.7

You say it's necessary for him to abuse power to get things done, that the other side is worse, that he's strong and that's what the American people need.

1:56.0

History has littered with people who believe the same things.

1:59.7

Let's start close to home.

2:01.5

Richard Nixon didn't go to prison. His loyalists did. His Attorney General John Mitchell

2:06.6

did hard time in a federal prison. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, did hard time. As did

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