Daily Take: The Dictator’s Dream: Controlling Who Gets to Vote
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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From Putin’s whispers to an executive order in the making, Trump openly declares his intent to shred America’s electoral system for 2026 before our eyes…
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| 1:01.8 | The dictator's dream controlling who gets to vote. Yesterday, Donald Trump crossed another line that no |
| 1:09.6 | president in our history has ever dared to touch. |
| 1:12.5 | With the echo of Vladimir Putin's whisper in his ear in front of President Zelensky and seven other |
| 1:17.8 | European leaders, Trump announced he's preparing an executive order to ban mail-in ballots |
| 1:22.9 | and even outlaw voting machines across America ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. |
| 1:29.0 | Sitting in front of the Chancellor of Germany and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, both nations |
| 1:33.1 | that allow and even encourage mail-in voting, Trump said, quote, |
| 1:37.2 | mail-in ballots are corrupt mail-in ballots. You can never have a real democracy with mail-in ballots, |
| 1:43.6 | and we as a Republican Party are going to do everything possible that we can to get rid of mail-in ballots. |
| 1:49.2 | We're going to start with an executive order that's being written right now by the best lawyers in the country to end mail-in ballots because they're corrupt. |
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