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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Trump: Is He the Thief in the Ballroom?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Congress, Economics, Climate Change, The Hartmann Report, Debate, Democracy, America, Thom Hartmann, News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The fight isn’t between left and right anymore: it’s between oligarchy and the people, between those who hoard power and those still brave enough to believe in democracy...

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1:01.0

Trump is he the thief in the ballroom?

1:04.6

Trump is now trying to extract a quarter billion dollars in the American Treasury, our tax dollars, to compensate himself for the troubles

1:12.8

he faced when Merrick Garland belatedly tried to hold him to account for criminally stealing classified

1:18.9

documents, trying to overthrow the 2020 election, and his explicit public outreach to Putin to

1:25.5

hack Hillary Clinton's emails and make them public that helped him win the 2016 election.

1:31.1

The decision about whether to give him the $230 million will largely fall to Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice she heads,

1:38.3

assuming no Republicans in Congress dare challenge him.

1:42.1

The obscenity of his former private attorney, who looked the other way

1:45.8

for eight years in Florida when she was Attorney General there and Trump and Epstein were up to

1:50.3

their dirty deeds, ratified this demand, is astonishing. But like his tearing down the east wing of the

1:57.3

White House to make way for his Mar-a-Lago-style ballroom in defiance of the

2:02.1

law as giving authority over the White House to the National Capital Planning Commission

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