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The Hartmann Report

DER BLUNDERKIND LEADS THE CHARGE

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 5 April 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The good news is that kind-hearted Samaritans are thinking of ingenious ways to help senior citizens in isolation. The bad news is that when red states start being heavily impacted by Covid-19, watch for the Trump machine to start slinging blame at the Left as a scapegoat. 

And - Jared Kushner, America's 'blunderkind' knows better than the experts!- or not...How to swipe your credit card without exposing it...Should Biden and Bernie team up?.. Coyotes in Manhattan... How Cuba is handling lockdown... The propagandists fawning over Trump in his press room... And is Trump using this crisis to accelerate his attack on the professionals that keep the federal government running?

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman Program.

0:04.0

There's a lot going on in the world.

0:10.0

There's a lot going on in the world besides just a massive pandemic, although, you know, what's the old saying?

0:17.0

The prospect of being hung in the morning tends to focus one's mind.

0:21.0

Yeah, so for a while there there was this incredible hubris

0:26.4

particularly among millennials, oh you know it's not going to affect me and now down

0:31.7

in New Orleans it's knocking off millennials tragically and we've had a couple

0:36.2

of babies die from this. I mean this is a large and extensive and pervasive issue. You know this glib, oh it's the boomer

0:44.7

yeah right. You know the Trump administration is hard at work they're bringing in

0:50.5

their best mind.

0:53.0

Jared Kushner, the guy who overpaid for a building on Fifth Avenue

0:56.7

by several hundred million dollars because, hey,

1:00.8

you know, his daddy said you got to marry a rich woman who looks good.

1:05.3

You got to buy a newspaper. He gutted the newspaper, by the way, the New York

1:08.8

observer, he ruined it. And you got to buy a fancy, you know, high profile building in New York City.

1:14.2

And boy, those guys saw Jared Kushner coming.

1:16.6

Those guys who were trying to unload 666 Fifth Avenue.

1:20.6

They refer to him in the press, Joan MacArthur over Daily Coes, she opens her piece.

1:25.6

Blunderkind.

1:27.7

Wunderkind is the big German, yeah, Blunderking.

1:31.5

Yesterday he came out and he said the national stockpile does not belong to the states. It's ours. Here's his exact quote. The notion of the federal stockpile is supposed to be our stockpile. It's not supposed to be the state's

1:44.3

stockpiles. Right? You get that? So let's go back to what the strategic national

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