Daily Take: The “CEO Presidency” Scam: How Republicans Turned Government Into a Profit Center for Billionaires
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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The slogan that promised efficiency was really a blueprint to dismantle public government and hand its power—and money—to the billionaire class…
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| 1:00.0 | The CEO presidency scam, how Republicans turned government into a profit center for billionaires. |
| 1:07.3 | The bombs are falling on Iran this week. |
| 1:10.0 | Cash Patel has fired the FBI experts on Iranian sleeper cells in America, |
| 1:14.5 | and people are speculating that Trump's trying to provoke an Iranian attack on the U.S. to justify blowing up November's elections. |
| 1:22.3 | Somewhere in the wreckage of what used to be America's functioning national security apparatus, the ghost of Ronald Reagan is |
| 1:29.5 | grinning. I've been doing my progressive program on Sirius XM, Free Speech TV, and radio stations |
| 1:35.6 | nationwide for over two decades, and every time a Republican runs for office promising to |
| 1:40.6 | run government like a business, Reagan's favorite meme, I tell my listeners exactly |
| 1:45.9 | what's coming next. Tax cuts for the morbidly rich, gutted regulations that had been designed to |
| 1:52.5 | protect average people. Privatized, profitized, public services that will make billions for corporations |
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