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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Why Are the People Brave Enough to Hold Trump to Account Mostly Black & Brown?

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Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

There is no movement advocating political violence on the American left. It is entirely confined to the American right & the media needs to admit that, and the FBI needs to recalibrate their efforts…

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Why are the people brave enough to hold Trump to account mostly black and brown?

0:07.0

Donald Trump and his sons put a bullseye on the Hispanic daughter of New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Marchon this week,

0:15.0

identifying her by name and picture and repeated posts on its Nazi-infested social media site.

0:21.0

Predictably, she's now receiving threats of violence as is her

0:24.6

Colombian-born father. The stock and trade of fascist is violence and the

0:29.8

threats of violence. Fascists movements within democracies are always minority movements and have been throughout history,

0:37.0

from Mussolini and Hitler to Puniche and Putin.

0:40.0

When he was rising to power in Hungary, for example, Victor Orban's right-hand man led a torchlight

0:47.0

march into a Budapest Roman neighborhood threatening to burn the gypsies who fled in terror out of their homes. More recently, Orbond started arresting

0:56.8

people who defamed him in social media. Because their minority movements, fascists always

1:02.3

use violence to cow enough people

1:04.3

that legitimate activism and political challenges to them quietly die.

1:11.2

We're seeing this exact phenomenon today across America in response to Donald Trump's fascist MAGA movement.

1:17.0

While he recruited people to violate the law with his fake electors scheme in seven states, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan,

1:25.8

and Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.

1:30.2

Only Fawny Willis and Georgia has had the courage to criminally prosecute him for that crime.

1:37.0

She's not only receiving regular threats of violence in a state with a long history of lynching and political assassinations.

1:43.6

Now Jim Jordan is trying to drag her through the mud in Washington, D.C.

1:47.2

After right-wing Georgia, Judge Scott McAtaffy,

1:51.4

allowed weeks of baseless nationally televised character assassination.

1:56.0

Similarly, although he's apparently committed massive bank tax and insurance fraud in multiple states,

2:02.0

only Latisha James in New York had the courage to

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