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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Presidential Morality at Stake: Is Trump America’s Political Harvey Weinstein?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Even if Trump isn’t put back into the White House this fall, the damage he’s done to our nation’s moral fabric will take at least a generation to heal...

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0:00.0

Presidential morality at stake is Trump America's political Harvey Weinstein

0:07.2

After just a bit more than a year of marriage in the recent birth of his youngest child

0:11.2

Donald Trump coerced starmy Daniels into having sex with

0:14.6

him by dangling a slot on Celebrity Apprentice and then physically blocking the exit from

0:19.8

his hotel bedroom.

0:21.7

Multiple other women have accused him of violent sexual assault, and he was also found

0:25.5

by a court and jury to have sexually assaulted and then defamed E. Jean Carroll.

0:30.5

And now he wants to again become president.

0:33.0

Many countries split the functions of head of state and head of government.

0:37.0

In the UK and other historic kingdoms, the head of state is the king or queen,

0:41.0

while the head of government is the prime minister in Israel and some

0:44.2

other countries the head of state is the president while the prime minister

0:47.1

runs the government the head of state is expected to define the moral tone of

0:51.4

the nation essentially a parental role, while the head of government

0:55.2

runs the day-to-day details of governance and administrative role.

0:59.4

In America, our president is both our head of state and head of government

1:03.2

which is what's essential that the person holding that position be both a

1:06.2

competent manager as well as a respected moral leader

1:10.3

well there have been a few immoral exceptions who history views of the jaundiced

1:14.1

I like Richard Nixon Andrew Johnson and Andrew Jackson our nation has generally

1:19.4

been blessed with presidents who took both responsibilities seriously and particularly

1:23.8

his head of state tried to establish a high moral example for the American people

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