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The Hartmann Report

Exposing Billionaires’ Plans To Destroy America

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Most Americans just learned, from reporting this week in The New York Times, that Trump, billionaire-funded rightwing think tanks, and some of the leaders of the GOP have a plan to flip America from a democratic republic into an authoritarian strongman-type of government should he or another like-minded MAGA Republican win the White House in 2024.

Plus report from Ukraine with Veteran War Correspondent, Phil Ittner on the recent grain crisis and naval standoff.

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0:46.8

Hey, hey, Donald Trump is flailing about.

0:50.8

He totally freaked out because he got a letter from the Department of Justice from

0:55.7

Jack Smith's office saying you are the target of a potential indictment of this grand jury.

1:01.4

But there are actually, I think, is a bigger issue here, which is that the Heritage Foundation

1:05.8

and a group of other right-wing think tanks all by and large, most of them funded by right-wing

1:11.2

networks that are paid for in large part by right-wing billionaires, many of them fossil fuel

1:17.1

billionaires, that they've put together a plan for either Donald Trump or any

1:23.8

mega-republican or, frankly, any Republican in their mind to take over our government,

1:29.8

to replace small D democracy in the United States with a strong,

1:34.0

man-authoritarian-style government to consolidate all the power, basically that it can be possibly

1:41.2

consolidated within the office of the president. They want to turn America into Russia,

1:47.0

they want to turn the president into Putin. And they're not shy about this. They're quite proud

1:53.0

about it. They're claiming, well, you know, the Constitution doesn't say that the president

1:56.3

doesn't have all this power. I mean, we can do this. This was written by Jonathan Swant,

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