DJT Tries to Distract from Epstein with Dept of War Proposal
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 5 September 2025
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It's shouldn't be surprising to us that Trump wants a Department of War - he is war-mongering with Greenland, Mexico, Venezuela, India, Canada, Puerto Rico, and apparently North Korea...who am I forgetting? It also should not surprise us that the Trump administration is redacting every Republican and leaving every Democrat on the Epstein list. Plus - Thomas Massey names a billionaire in the Epstein files! CNN has uncovered audio of RFK Jr. praising a description of Trump and his supporters as “belligerent idiots,” “outright Nazis,” “cowards,” and “bootlickers,” while also comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler. We have the audio.The Jobs numbers are in and it looks like Trump is leading us over the cliff. The NATO chief is warning that China and Russia are preparing for a "long-term confrontation." What a disaster for the world, and there isn’t much hope with Trump in charge and an absent Congress.
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| 0:34.2 | It shouldn't be surprising that Trump wants to rename the Defense Department, the Department of War. |
| 0:39.6 | After all, he's a warmonger. |
| 0:40.8 | He's threatened war with Greenland, Mexico, Venezuela, India, Canada, Puerto Rico, and apparently North Korea. |
| 0:48.0 | Who am I forgetting here? |
| 0:49.6 | Also, it shouldn't surprise us that the Trump administration is redacting every Republican and leaving every |
| 0:55.9 | Democrat on the Epstein list. Plus, Thomas Massey just named a billionaire in the Epstein files. |
| 1:01.1 | We'll get to that in a minute. And CNN has uncovered audio of RFK Jr. praising a description of |
| 1:06.6 | Trump and his supporters as belligerent idiots, outright Nazis, cowards, and bootlickers, |
| 1:12.1 | while comparing Trump to Hitler. |
| 1:14.1 | We have the audio. |
| 1:16.1 | And the job numbers are in, and it looks like Trump is leading us over a cliff. |
| 1:20.3 | Also, the NATO chief is warning that China and Russia are preparing for a, quote, long-term |
| 1:25.8 | confrontation. |
| 1:27.4 | This could be a disaster for the world, |
| 1:29.2 | particularly when Trump is in charge and we've got an absent Congress. So Donald Trump wants to |
| 1:35.0 | rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War. Oh, yeah. Oh, boy. David from, |
| 1:42.0 | the former speechwriter, says the DOD was created by an act of Congress. |
| 1:46.2 | Trump is breaking the law by trying to do this. Well, the Trump administration has come out and said, |
| 1:50.5 | no, we're not actually going to change the name of it. We're going to rebrand it. So the letterhead will say, |
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