Daily Take: How Billionaire's Privilege is Taking Down Our Republic
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Hundreds of working class people who answered Donald Trump’s call on January 6th are sitting in prison today, but the ringleader, the guy without whom those people would not be in jail, walks free…
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| 0:00.0 | How billionaire privilege is taking down our republic. |
| 0:05.0 | In America today, if you can afford at least $50 million in lawyers fees, |
| 0:09.0 | you can get away with rape, massive financial fraud over decades, ripping off people who just wanted to go to college, |
| 0:16.3 | stealing from children's cancer charities, paying off porn stars to influence an election, |
| 0:21.8 | and leading a treasonous |
| 0:23.0 | insurrection against your own country that results in the death of at |
| 0:25.8 | least six people plus three police officers with over a hundred police |
| 0:30.1 | officers ending up in the hospital many with life altering injuries without |
| 0:34.2 | ever spending a night in jail. Michael Cohen was sent to New York's notorious |
| 0:40.4 | Rikers Island prison for paying off porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy Centerfold |
| 0:45.0 | Karen McDougal to keep them quiet in the weeks |
| 0:48.0 | before the 2016 election about their affairs |
| 0:50.9 | of Donald Trump. Having the affairs wasn't Cohen's idea and he never slept with either woman. |
| 0:56.0 | It wasn't even his idea to pay them off. |
| 0:58.0 | That came from Donald Trump and David Becker who called it catch and kill, |
| 1:02.0 | as in pay off the women to kill the story. and even though in the weeks just before the 2016 election |
| 1:13.2 | the Access Hollywood when you're a star they let you do it tape had come out. |
| 1:19.1 | As advocates for New York City DA Alvin Bragg have repeatedly pointed out had Americans |
| 1:23.9 | also learned them that Trump was having sex with these women while Malani was |
| 1:28.2 | pregnant and afterwards. Odds are Hillary Clinton would have become president |
| 1:32.0 | that year. There never would have become president that year. |
| 1:33.0 | That there never would have been an attempt to overthrow our government. |
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