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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Will Trump’s Fear Factory be his Greatest Weapon or His Ultimate Undoing?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

He’s learning what every would-be king learns: fear works only until people remember who they are…


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1:00.6

Will Trump's Fear Factory be his greatest weapon or his ultimate undoing?

1:07.4

Trump and his people with all their strut and swagger want you to think he's the most powerful man in

1:13.1

America and will continue in power indefinitely. Don't believe it. The reason he's rushing so hard and

1:20.3

fast to spread his secret masked police across American cities while mobilizing the military against

1:26.4

civilians is precisely because he's so

1:29.2

extraordinarily weak. It's why he's breaking laws left and right from laws against bribery to

1:34.9

the Hatch Act to Posse Cometatus. It's why he's trying to provoke a military confrontation

1:39.5

with Venezuela, the same as Reagan did with Grenada two days after the Marine Barracks bombing.

1:47.1

It's why he's trying to distract us from the Epstein files and the reality that a third of

1:51.8

America's states are in or nearly in recession. It's why every time a report comes out about

1:59.1

inflation continuing to spike,

2:01.7

unaffordable housing, or job growth stalling out.

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