Daily Take: What If Trump Is Weaker Than We Think—and America’s Finally Figuring It Out?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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The strongman act is cracking, but as the cops, the crowds, and even the cult start to walk away, is this finally the moment his empire begins to fall?
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| 1:01.8 | What if Trump is weaker than we think, and America is finally figuring it out? |
| 1:08.0 | The article opens with an epigraph, a little quote from Edward R. Murrow. He said, |
| 1:13.6 | No man can terrorize an entire nation unless we are all his accomplices. Kids and cops got tear |
| 1:21.5 | gasped in Chicago. A judge is holding ICE, CPP officials to account. Americans are horrified by the destruction of the East Wing of |
| 1:29.2 | the White House, and even UFC fighters are starting to turn away from Trump. What's going on? Is he |
| 1:35.5 | really as strong as he appears to think? In 1999, I was working in a remote part of rural Russia |
| 1:42.6 | for a German-based international relief agency. |
| 1:45.7 | We were building housing and trying to teach peasant agriculture methods to people who'd only known ever, really, massive collective factory farms. |
| 1:55.3 | I was staying in the home of a family of four with two young children. |
| 1:58.0 | Dad was Russian, and mom, her name was Olga, was from East Germany, |
| 2:01.6 | although she'd grown up watching West German TV. The night before, the first open and fair election |
| 2:07.9 | in Russia's entire history, we were watching Russian TV news and eating dinner in the midst of a huge |
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