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The Hartmann Report

How Far Should Peaceful Protest Go?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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4.38 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

As Stormy Daniels takes the witness stand in New York, the protests- and the war- rage on. Is it a part of our democratic tradition for students to take control of buildings and impede classes and graduations as they call for us to stop sending money and aid to Israel?

Plus - Thom reads from "Criminology on Trump" by Gregg Barak.

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:15.0

Stormy Daniels is just wrapping up her testimony in New York.

0:19.0

It got pretty granular.

0:21.0

Yes, missionary position. The judge said that she could not

0:25.2

discuss genitalia. In other words, she can't tell the story that she's told

0:29.6

so many times about how teeny tiny Donald Trump's penis is.

0:35.0

So I don't know, maybe he thought that would offend the jury or

0:37.9

I guess it wasn't relevant to whether

0:41.2

to whether Donald Trump paid her off in order to win an election.

0:44.7

I mean, that's the thing that blows my mind.

0:47.7

Is I'm, you know, all morning I kept hearing people on MS NBC refer to this as the Hush Money Trial.

0:55.6

This is not a Hush Bunny Trial.

0:57.0

This is an election stealing trial.

1:00.6

If this news, if this story of Stormy Daniels, keep in mind two weeks before the election, the

1:07.3

Access Hollywood tape came out. Dozens of high-profile Republicans called for Donald Trump to step down and Mike Pence

1:15.8

to continue as the presidential nominee two weeks before the election.

1:21.1

And had the Stormy Daniel story come out, that would have happened.

1:24.0

Donald Trump would not have been the Republican Party's nominee.

1:28.0

Or if he was, he would have lost miserably.

1:32.0

This is about election interference, period, full stop. I don't know why

1:40.9

the media won't talk about that. You know I it just it boggles my mind.

1:46.3

It shouldn't even be election in your friends. It should be stealing an election trial

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