Daily Take: The Cruelty Machine: Inside Trump’s America, Where Pain is Policy & Fear is the Fuel
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Trump has built a movement that glorifies cruelty and cloaks greed in the language of patriotism and faith…
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| 0:28.2 | Google Play or the App Store. The cruelty machine inside Trump's America where paying as policy and |
| 0:35.6 | fear is the fuel. Earlier this month, ICE agents detained a six-year-old |
| 0:42.4 | Honduran boy battling leukemia as he left an immigration court in Los Angeles with his mother and |
| 0:47.6 | sister. A child fighting for his life was ripped from his fragile medical routine and locked away for over a month |
| 0:55.3 | interrupting his treatment, crying himself to sleep night after night in a concrete cell instead |
| 1:00.8 | of a hospital bed. This wasn't a mistake. It was cruelty by design, an intentional act of |
| 1:07.4 | terror by a government that now treats compassion as weakness and suffering as a political |
| 1:13.0 | weapon. ProPublica this morning published a report titled, Blooding Faces, Sobbing Children, Immigration |
| 1:20.0 | Officers smashed car windows to speed up arrests, documenting massive use of physical violence, |
| 1:26.7 | including over 50 occasions where car windows were smashed |
| 1:29.9 | and examples of people who were beaten up by ice. |
| 1:33.4 | This level of mass of, they call this level of police brutality unprecedented, pointing out that no police agency has ever behaved like this prior to the Trump administration. |
| 1:44.9 | The Guardian reports, quote, a Liberian man detained by ICE in Georgia was put in solitary confinement |
| 1:50.7 | after complaining about flooding in his cell that he said was potentially dangerous for his |
| 1:55.1 | electronic prosthetic legs. Since then, his challenges in detention have included the screws |
| 2:00.1 | coming out of his prosthetic legs, |
| 2:01.9 | causing her to fall and injure his hand and being unable to obtain new fitted legs. |
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